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Letter: A future of artificial food would leave us vulnerable

Published 16 October 2024

From James Fenton, Clachan Seil, Argyll and Bute, UK

Rowan Hooper’s column about a future food revolution paints a seriously worrying dystopian picture. This vision would leave food production in the hands of corporations and subject to the vicissitudes of supply chains, political disruption and so on (14 September, p 24).

The creation of megafarms already means farming is starting to come under the ownership of such organisations, which is a disaster for both farming and the environment. Chemically produced food divorces us from the natural world completely.

Issue no. 3513 published 19 October 2024

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