Magnus Linklater writes in The Times about French and British farming: "Long after Britain’s highly efficient but unpopular farming industry has been brought to its knees by a succession of policies that discourage food production in favour of the environment, the French peasant farmer will still be standing there, stolidly tending his small herd of doe-eyed cattle and his flock of muscular sheep..."

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