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Planned food shortages?

Discussion in 'General Chit Chat' started by Lee Adams, Mar 15, 2023.

  1. Lee Adams
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    Lee Adams Active Member

    A friend recommended I watch Clarkson's farm if I got the chance,which I did.
    It turned out to be some of the best British TV I have seen in years.
    Now that Clarkson has a far better handle on Farming in the U.K based on his recently gained experience,he has taken it upon himself to write an article about it in the paper he is well known for contributing to.
    With the continuing Farmer protests in the Netherlands due to proposed massive farm closures,is it the UK Governments intention to follow a similar path?

  2. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    ive noticed a lot of empty shelves at Tesco. Deliberate so the next stock will be a lot dearer ?
  3. John Surrey
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    Haven't seen Clarkson's farm...
    Did he grow those toms in his eyebrows ?
  4. John Surrey
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    John Surrey Well-Known Member

    Philippines is very susceptible to food inflation because it relies on imports and because the bad weather (typhoons, floods and landslides) has been reducing supply at home etc. add to that the new generation, been to school, and probably not wanting to farm like ma and pa did... recipe for disaster.

    Does seem like, at least in the short term, the UK has shot itself in the foot by leaving the EU. - I don't know - maybe it's just as bad there!
  5. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-rationing-uk-europe-brexit-b2287809.html?amp
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  6. John Surrey
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    Appears not everyone is happy with Jeremy ... the farm seems to have become a meeting ground for old Top Gear fans and their souped-up cars!
  7. John Surrey
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  8. Jim
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    Jim Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    How did the UK survive without the EU Before joining in 1973?
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  9. John Surrey
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    John Surrey Well-Known Member

    I cannot remember, I've moved on to 2023
  10. Lee Adams
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    He seems to have the support of a great many British Farmers for highlighting how ridiculously tough it is these days to produce food in Britain.
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  11. Jim
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    Jim Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    I can, and the 1975 referendum was to vote in the common market then it became the EU. Biggest lie from the EU.
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  12. John Surrey
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    Ahh I remember now, that was when we got rid of our Pounds, shillings and pennies... and we weren't allowed to have funny shaped bananas any more :D
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    We chose base 10 and finally implemented it in 1971, I was 12 that year, LSD was an interesting but incredibly dumb system but it served the country for hundreds of years, 240 pence to a pound, maybe the complex arithmetic we had to do to understand money made us smarter back then but for me it was a relief to introduce SI units and decimal money, a system based on logic instead of tradition.
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    I was 16, I was perfectly aware even then that the common market was a project aimed at ever closer union, anyone who claims it was a con is just making excuses for their own lack of paying attention at the time Jim.
  15. Jim
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    Referendum question[edit]
    The Act set out the following question which the British electorate would be asked:

    The Government has announced the results of the renegotiation of the United Kingdom's terms of membership of the European Community. Do you think that the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the Common Market)?

    permitting a YES / NO answer (to be marked with a (X)).

    Original proposed question[edit]
    When the bill was introduced it gave the question to appear on ballot papers:

    Do you think that the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community?

    permitting a YES / NO answer (to be marked with a (X)).

    The question was revised after the Government agreed to amend it to include the term "the Common Market" in brackets at the end of the question.

    Referendum Act 1975 - Wikipedia
  16. Jim
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    Jim Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Yeah, another stupid rule. No curved bananas. EU gone bonkers.
  17. John Surrey
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    Yes I often wonder whether the fact that we had 12 pennies to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound, 21 to a guinea and ozs and lbs and all those other weird measurements whether that made us all a bit smarter when it came to maths...

    Perhaps the change over to base 10 was part of the dumbing down process :D
  18. John Surrey
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    No more New Zealand lamb...
  19. HONEST DAVE
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    On my first ever visit to PH 10yrs ago my lady Friend had a house in Koronadal City in south Mondanao, this is where they grow the Dole Pineapples over a massive area, there I met the Mayor who was also a Farmer and he showed me around his Farm, bearing in mind that there it would rain every afternoon and quite heavy for around 30mins this would be late at around 4pm, by 4.30 pm it would dry off but the ground would be well saturated just what plants need, This Mayor told me it is possible to grow Rice and crop it 3 times in one year there if they could only work that bit smarter and use mechanical means instead of using Buffalo and hand planting he went on to say it would be possible to grow enough Rice on Mindanao to sustain the whole of the Philippines.

    This got me to thinking about countries that are close to the Equator have little need to observe the seasons and consider winter storage for their harvests, a farmer there can plant his seeds today or perhaps tomorrow or the day after it does not matter all that much as things grow so very fast there anyway, likely this is the reason they are such dumb Feckers and only ever live for today? Now people living high above the Equator such as in UK we had to evolve that bit smarter and time things just right, even in UK there is a marked difference between the north and south, Scotland has a very short growing season so we had to evolve that bit smarter than the rest, this is clearly evident by all the inventions and discoveries made by the Scottish, considering we are such a small population of only 5 million we have done well on this front.
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  20. Druk1
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    I used to stay in polomolok around 20 years ago, I know quite a few DOLE employees, had a tour of the massive pineapple plantations and a farming research centre near there.

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