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I've been vegan for 10 years and eat many different delicious things, I think you're being disingenous. The land would indeed be far better off being rewilded and reforested.

Opposition to hated and evil figures like Blair, Bono, King Charles, Gates, Monibot, JSO, Thunberg and environmentalists in general has been very cleverly used and people have actually ended up supporting Big animal ag (and its sister industry Big pharma) and big fossil fuels.

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Well if Sir Starmer signs the proposed trade deal with the USA we won't have to import expensive foodstuffs from Europe where far too many onerous regulations add to production and marketing costs. We can get much cheaper food from USA where the farmers benefit from economy of scale then we can indeed free up most of our currently cultivated land to its near original state,flower meadows and wild woods. In fact if we.can rewild on a large enough scale we can reintroduce wolves - and bears. With enough wild land to roam in that won't affect us in the cities. So best of both worlds.

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Yes, those pesky regulations about eutrophication, biodiversity, pesticides and animal welfare.

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Displaying no enthusiasm for the bears and wolves then,or are beavers more your thing. Buck up.

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So the US kills millions of wild horses and the bees so we get beavers for a few years before the US has to keep all its food for itself cos of agricultural failures and we start to shot people at our borders as we try to grow our own food.

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You're Right,I'm Left oh sorry that's an Elvis song. I now SEE the error of my ways. I'm totally WRONG and DELUSIONAL in my thinking. So what's your ideal policy for supplying a population of about 70 million with enough non- meat food to sustain it from a reduced area of cultivated land as more farmland is removed from actual agricultural use be that arable or pasture.

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what’s actual agriculture? ‘Non-meat’ produce ie eating fruits and veg directly from the soil - what humans are evolved to eat- take up about 1/6th of the land than passing grains or pasture through the energy inefficient bodies eating for 6-18 months.

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