Will vegan, organic, or industrial farming feed the 10 Billion?

Tim Smedley
The New Climate.
Published in
6 min readMay 2, 2019

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One image, two very different responses. A group of combine harvesters process across a vast, dusty field, harvesting a crop that expands beyond the horizon. One take, when tweeted by a farming union (I cannot name them because they have since deleted the tweet), was how it highlighted the natural beauty of the agricultural countryside. Another response, from the animal welfare charity Compassion in World Farming, is rather that such scenes are evidence of “a faceless, heartless, relentless machine… Intensive farming causes immense harm to wildlife…

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Tim Smedley
The New Climate.

Environment writer for the BBC, Guardian etc. Books: Clearing The Air (2019) and The Last Drop (out now!). Editor of https://medium.com/the-new-climate.