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Britain’s crown prince has a message for America: You don’t pay enough for your food. And the way you produce it is ruining the planet.

Fresh from his oldest son’s wedding, Prince Charles came to Washington to slam today’s conventional agricultural system as unsustainable because of its reliance on biotechnology and chemicals.

“The current model is simply not durable in the long term,” he told a food-policy conference hosted Wednesday by Georgetown University.

The prince, who has long been a virulent opponent of biotechnology, has devoted some of the royal lands to organic farming. He ran through a list of the challenges facing the globe – growing populations, rising commodity prices, increased demand for meat as incomes grow, a changing climate, and limited water supplies. He offered organic farming as the answer to those challenges because of its ability to maintain soil fertility reliance on chemical inputs.