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Without peat no vegetables, plant production is not possible without peat. The world market leader is a company based in Emsland. This now obtains the raw material on a large scale from the Baltic States. In order to cover our demand for peat, they will eventually dry up intact moors there, warns moor expert Hans Joosten. This is a first-class environmental mess, because dry moors are a problem for climate protection, they emit enormous amounts of greenhouse gases. Hans Joosten therefore demands: What is dry must become wet again. "Re:" accompanies bog conservationists and peat producers to peat fields in Germany and the Baltic States. Does our immense peat consumption lead to the destruction of peatlands in neighbouring countries?