Hello, Dominic in Amsterdam.

Hi, Katie in Paris, and hello listeners, joining us from Europe and beyond.

Sounds like I'm speaking about people in space.

Beyond.

How are you, Katie?

I'm good. Can I just say, I've been blown away by the response to something that we talked about

on the podcast a couple of weeks ago, which is when you were on holiday, Dominic, and our

producer Katz were standing in for you.

Katz brought up the fact that an epidemic of slugs has been attacking people's gardens across

what seems to be a very large stretch

of this continent. Including mine. Including yours and cats is. And the response is being discussed

on the podcast. I have never seen anything like it on basically all of our social media.

People have been like, never mind all of these elections that you keep talking about.

Finally, the Europeans are discussing the story that matters. Slugs. Apparently it was a problem

that the media hasn't been paying enough attention to. I mean, Katz and I have been shouting

about this for months now, so I'm so glad the penny has finally dropped. I went out walking the other

night, and I could barely take a step without treading on slugs. It was so disgusting. And I really think it is a serious story that actually has implications for biodiversity. So we're going to talk about this more, okay? Okay. What now?

No, today we're not going to talk about slugs specifically, but I think if we take anything from this, it is that people do want to hear more stories about the land.

So that is what we're bringing you this week. For the rest of this episode, we are taking you to a farm in Hungary.

We've talked a few times on this show over the past year or so about the politics of how we grow our food. But the last couple of

times it's been in the context of like how giant agricultural companies dominate our food systems.

But in reality, the vast majority of the farms on this continent are much, much smaller than that and run by families.

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