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For me, I cannot write very well, I cannot sing very well, I cannot paint.

But I can tell the stories, I want to play the food at the time.

Right now there is food wasting people going hungry at the same time.

We have food waste and poverty right next to a supermarket

so it's okay if you're paying for it but if you're not paying for it you don't get access or you have to queue up and be stigmatized.

We're trying to remove all of that.

What I became convinced of is that you don't need an animal to produce a piece of meat.

Welcome to the food program. You've joined us for the second course

from the BBC Food and Farming Awards.

Yesterday it was the best producers, street food or takeaway,

shops, cooks of the year, future food, and drinks. Today

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