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Game meat’s unlikely allies

Unless you are reading this as a resident of the idyllic yet remote Federated States of Micronesia, you will be, by now, fed up to the back teeth with COVID-19. Island states such as this are the only places on earth that have succeeded in staying virus-free. To date, more than 76,300 Britons have died showing COVID-19 symptoms. Financially, the virus is ruinous. The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates our Government borrowing will top £394billion for the current financial year — that is a whopping £339billion over pre-Covid expected borrowing requirements. In the future, countless tomes will be written on the economic disaster that this virus has piled upon nation after nation.

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