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Farming matters: Tom Heap - "Intensive farming will not see many more tomorrows"

"Intensive farming, with its reliance on artificial nitrogen, vanishing peat and corrupting the soil, will not see many more tomorrows. It is literally unsustainable"

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Farming matters: Tom Heap - "Intensive farming will not see many more tomorrows"

Let's get one thing straight 鈥� we are experiencing a 鈥榮pace race'. Not in the heavens above, but down here on earth. Land At a time when land is expected to do so much 鈥� feed us, house us, power us,...

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