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Expedia.co.ukh, visit Scotland. You know, from Jethrochal on, the farmer has to buy something

externally from a middleman and a supplier and pay, you know, a handover part of their profits

to somebody else. Where the farm used to have a circular economy where pretty much everything you use,

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And that was a really efficient and sustainable system.

The new systems all rely on bringing something extracted from somewhere else,

often at great cost and damage and importing it in.

Welcome back to the Beat Podcast. I am your host today, Jacques. And we are talking about a slightly different topic.

It's related to things that we've talked about throughout all these episodes on the podcast.

But today we're actually going back in time a little bit and we're looking at the big picture.

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