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The developed world has a love affair with refrigeration that spreads way beyond the domestic chiller: It the backbone of the world food supply industry, keeping food fresher for far longer than mother nature intended. But it could be about to ruin us. Nicola Twilley has written a wonderful feature for Modern Farmerabout the dangers of mass refrigeration, and how easily it can be affected by extreme weather event
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