On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:10:50 +0100, "Jim Webster"
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"Moosh:]" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:59:28 +0100, "Jim Webster"
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"Moosh:]" wrote in message
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Yep, you (UK) are so close to cheap producers, I guess, where we are
so far away from anything (except the tropics

not only that but if I planted broadleaves, my biggest worry was some
environmental group would get tree preservation orders or similar slapped
on
them and i would never be able to fell them anyway, which makes their use
as
a crop pretty damned suspect

You wonder what those buggers eat. Don't they realise that all food
comes from farmers?

surely you know by now that food comes from supermarkets!

Damn! I forgot that.

I remember listening to the BBC radio when they had a Harvest festival and
the clergy man asked the congregation to pray for the aid agencies who fed
everyone

Good one! Thing that staggers me is how little of a pint of milk or a
pound of beef you producers actually get. You lot seem to supply a
cheap raw material for every other bugger to cop a markup on.
I know you've tried to take action on this, but I suppose there is
always a farmer in the next village who is hungrier and will cave in.
You need something like a builders' union or a miners' union. Big and
powerful that can fund you for a three month strike.