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Letters: "How did we humans survive for so long on milk, meat and two veg?"

FG reader Richard Bruce, from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, responds to Dr Dolly van Tulleken's Farming Matters column on the closure of small-scale abattoirs and farms

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FG reader Richard Bruce highlights the mass closure of dairy farms on the Isle of Wight
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FG reader Richard Bruce highlights the mass closure of dairy farms on the Isle of Wight

Dr Dolly van Tulleken has exposed a serious problem for the agricultural industry. Isle of Wight When I came here to the Isle of Wight in 1968, there were at least 318 working dairy farms. Then...

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