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Environmentally it is complex, as some countries rely on human labour more than machines ran on fossil fuels.
Pesticides and other food safety standards are definitely lower in some countries compared to EU / current UK standards.
The UK has loads of unfarmed land in private hands that's neither a public nature reserve nor building land.
Scotland is running a community buy scheme for such land.
Of course a lot of that land is part of the "it's free real estate!" history of the UK, a progressive land tax may free some of it up for farming / grazing / nature.
So that can mean more local food (we also needs to earn more quorn and less animal food) but pigs can fly unfortunately when it comes to land tax...