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Very exciting to be here. But im trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasnt it . It was. My husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. And every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. And we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. Mm. 17 years on, we were £1. 5 million in debt, tearin...

ah, well, its actually still, for me, very exciting to be here. but im trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasnt it? it was. my husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. and every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. and we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. mm. 17 y...

About one element of it, and that is your use of livestock, and therefore your continued use of meat. george monbiot, the activist environmentalist who weve had on hardtalk, he would say that, fundamentally, to quote him, "livestock is a phenomenally profligate means of producing food." you still, in essence, are producing meat. farmed meat, in a way. is this not a flaw in your approach? george is absolutely right about meat being... intensive livestock management being kind of a very profligate...