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Demands for more oil are crude. Renewable energy will protect our food system
By Dan Crossley2026-04-12T07:58:00
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Some commentators have advocated intensifying oil production to protect food supplies. This is profoundly misguided, says Dan Crossley, executive director at the Food Ethics Council
Spring is meant to be a season of renewal. Yet for our food system, renewal is no longer a nice idea – it is an urgent necessity. As some of us indulge in a chocolate egg hangover, we should confront a harder truth. Much of the UK’s food system is dangerously exposed, deeply unfair and unfit for the shocks that lie ahead.
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