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Jack Kessler

Don’t read this while hungry

Watching your car’s odometer tick over from 99,999 miles to 100,000 is low-key exhilarating. Seeing the cost of filling a tank of petrol hit £100 is considerably less so.

Now, I don’t drive a car, but I do eat, so I wanted to talk a little bit about food prices, and specifically wheat, on which more than a third of the world’s population relies as the primary staple in their diet.

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