home produced food

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rowlandwells

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home produced food
« on: March 04, 2020, 14:38 »
did I here it said by an adviser to the government that we didn't need British farmers well they only produce milk meat cereal crops and veg why by British when we can buy  all that from abroad

not forgetting all that animal welfare and the monitoring of most things that are grown by DEFRA the next thing will be do we really want people doing allotments why do people have to grow fresh veg when its as cheap to buy it  from some supermarkets there you are down that allotments every day digging and planting all that fresh are is certainly not good for you  :D

and all that lovely allotment ground could be used for building new homes us allotment folk are very selfish you know keeping hold of those plots of land for growing fresh veg and do we need something called garden therapy ;)

so its back to those farmers producing standards of food with that silly tractor mark on packaging lets face it all those lovely fields most of them now all water logged do look nice with swans and ducks swimming on them

lets face it these old government advisers really know how to make friends with our farming communities O' I forgot to mention red diesel [red diesel] that's now subsidised is going to be scraped so any price increase because of this will know doubt  be passed onto the consumer one way or another take wheat if wheat go up then bread prices will follow?
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haven't seen any mention of  a fuel increase to us gardeners and other road users in the forthcoming budget
but there's still time should I send an email to remind him our road tax and fuel prices are to cheap



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« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2020, 15:43 »
This proves that economists should be locked away in a dark place. An economist will explain that we should just shoot people rather than pay for their retirement or increased healthcare costs!  :ohmy:
It may be more sensible to let the free market rule and not subsidise our farmers or fishers. We can have cheaper food in the shops this way. This system was allowed prior to WW1 and afterwards before WW2. After WW2 the politicians had learned a lesson about food security and whilst the press moaned about butter mountains and so forth, we were secure in having enough home produced food and stored foods to get us through a disaster..
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