In the UK, the food system provides jobs for one in seven of the population. Much of this is made possible by a free market that performs a million daily miracles: producing, exporting, importing, processing and serving up a dazzling variety of reasonably priced foods in an abundance unimaginable to previous generations. But in the UK and beyond, this bounty has come at a cost, explains Henry Dimbleby, lead non-executive board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
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