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Cattle accidentally eat scrap metal which scrapes their stomachs and can cause them to die - but the EU Health Commissioner says a simple magnet inserted into their abdomens could solve the problem. Sarah Swadling meets a Devon farmer that is testing this method.

Also, the Curry Report into the Foot and Mouth crisis of 2001 said that the trauma should act as a watershed in farming. Ten years on, Charlotte Smith asks the author, Sir Don Curry, if there has been a change in our food and farming. And Caz Graham meets a Cumbrian couple who used the crisis as a chance to change their dairy business, moving to ice cream production with a herd of Jersey cows.

Food is about to get more expensive due to the rising cost of animal feed, which retailers say they will have to pass onto shoppers. According to the UN, global food prices have reached a record high whilst the price of cereals is up 73% from last year. Andrew Opie from the British Retail Consortium tells Anna Hill that this will inevitably push up the cost of the weekly shop.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Weatherill.