UK Government to Fund CO2 Production to Prevent Food Shortages

UK Government to Fund CO2 Production to Prevent Food Shortages
People shop in the meat aisle in a Lidl supermarket in Walthamstow, east London, on March 20, 2020. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
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The British government will pay millions of pounds to an American company in the coming weeks in order to ensure CO2 supplies, which are indispensable to the food industry.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng announced on Tuesday that the government would provide “limited financial support” to CF Fertilisers, which produces around 60 percent of the UK’s supplies of carbon dioxide, used primarily by the food sector but also in the health and nuclear industries.