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Over half of all foodstuffs produced end up going to waste. The agricultural industry devours great quantities of energy, water, fertilisers and pesticides. Tropical forests get felled to make way whether for pasture lands or soya and palm oil industrial farming. Over a third of greenhouse gases may be traced to the agricultural sector and the global transport of foodstuffs. We know that the excessive consumption of meat and dairy products causes disease. Why do we continue buying from supermarkets the outputs of the industrial meat sector with its intensive animal husbandry practices, fattening them on genetically manipulated soya? Are …