The Green party certainly knows how to pick them. Sarah Wakefield, the Green candidate in the Makerfield by-election, is the executive director of Eating Better, a charity that is open to the idea that British farming is a racist power structure, riddled with white supremacist tendencies, and thereby ripe for ‘decolonisation’. It must come as a shock to most people that the country’s farms are a hotbed of racists.

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Last year the charity shared a report and accompanying guidance that listed ‘defensiveness’, ‘perfectionism’ and ‘a sense of urgency’ as examples of ‘white supremacy culture’. Who knew that setting high standards in food production was simply a devious way of asserting racial and cultural superiority? The report went on to suggest ways to challenge ‘colonial power and legacies’ in the food system. 

‘To decolonise food is to rethink our relationship with it and take a fairer, more connected, holistic approach,’ according to Caroline J. Sumlin, an American activist, who wrote the report. It really is an exercise in gobbledegook. It is........

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