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How food is causing the apocalypse and how we can fix it with George Monbiot

The Happy Pear Podcast

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The Future of Crops

Cross breeding allows perennial world grass to be mixed with kind of a Inedible aneurietal and it's really exciting. It hasn't been all that fancy the technology required, you know, I mean selective breeding is a much more sophisticated thing than it used to be. So there's a whole lot of Different potential crops in the pipeline now Well, I'm eating another one called kernza Which is it comes from a plant which is it's just a grassReally it's the deep-rooted perennial grass very very thick deep roots go down several meters Um, so you they need less water. They need less fertilizer than the straggly little tiny ones because they're gone deeper

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