Towards the end of the twentieth century, the UK was importing about a quarter of a million tonnes of cheese a year.
This means that about 30,000 hectares of overseas grazing land was reserved for UK consumers, blunting demand for working cheese producers in the UK and choking off UK production for basic cheeses. To give an indication of the scale involved, 300 square kilometres is equivalent to the Maldives pre-global warming or the area administered by the city of Colchester in the UK.
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