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76. You Eat What You Are, Part 1

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Is There a Way to Diversify Our Agriculture?

Michael pollin: One of the most important things to do is to diversify our agriculture. He says we should devise mechanisms in our agricultural policy that reward farmers for having more than one or two crops. The more different crops they have, the less need they'll have for fertilizers, which are huge fossil fuel burners.

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