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Comment: Farmers the victims of food company decarbonization

Farmers are bearing the brunt of big food companies’ decarbonization efforts. Here’s why

More than a third of the global greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity can be attributed to how we produce, process and package food, so it comes as no surprise that many large food-producing and retailing companies are under pressure from investors, politicians and environmental groups to clean up their operations. Several leading fast-food