#FarmingCAN - Link farming to health to prevent disease

As the producer of food, farming is an ’intrinsic part of the health system’ that could be better directed to prevent ill-health, according to NFU deputy president Stuart Roberts.

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#FarmingCAN - Link farming to health to prevent disease

"Ultimately, we need to communicate to people what we deliver so that when they buy food, at the back of their mind they [know] they are also contributing to all those things are are currently intangible...

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