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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

The dominance of is storing up severe problems in the UK's :

'The lack of small, independent food growers, producers & retailers leaves us ever more dependent on supermarkets & their self-interest... Our food system must be redesigned to put resilience & meeting people’s needs before profit for the few'!

While hardly a new diagnosis of our problems, here Andrew Simms makes a clear argument for why we need (radical) change & fast!

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The GuardianBritain’s ‘house of food’ sits on shaky foundations. To fix it, curb the big supermarketsBy Andrew Simms