The Soil Association [1] rejects the Government’s deeply unambitious new strategy to protect our soil. [2] Hilary Benn [3] admits that soil is one of the ‘building blocks of life’, yet the measures outlined will not put right the huge degradation that our soils have suffered over the last 200 years, partly as a result of what the government calls ‘intensive agricultural production’.
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