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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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