I discussed this extraordinary shift towards #Farmfree food with Charlotte Smith on Farming Today this morning. From 9'30":https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d206 …
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Our food will be produced on a tiny fraction of the land. Its environmental impacts will be much smaller. Nature can recover, and carbon can be drawn down on a massive scale. Food will be cheaper and better. Its supply will be far more reliable. Everyone can be fed.
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Farmers will lose out, however.
#Farmfree foods are likely to drive most of them out of business within a generation or so. So they will need public help during this transition. Instead of pouring subsidies into a dying industry, governments should be helping people to leave it.Prikaži ovu nit -
And legislation must get ahead of the new technologies, with strong anti-trust laws and limitations on patents, ensuring that - unlike global farm commodity markets today - they cannot be captured and concentrated by a few big players.
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All this and more will be explored in our film
#ApocalypseCow, at 10pm on@Channel4 this evening.pic.twitter.com/Oz4nuuhEff
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Here's my response, in the comment thread, to the people expressing horror at the idea of
#Farmfree foods.pic.twitter.com/oGlNAIplVs
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Who is investing in this? I think that will tell us everything about whether it will happen or not.
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Channel 4 are investing in it.
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It all sounds rather wonderful science to the rescue but at the back of my mind is the nagging thought that a quarter of the globe is surviving on £2 per day and many are just dying of malnutrition.
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That is exactly why we need it.
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Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
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