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and how would you have stopped the outbreak?

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!!!!!
Do you remember what the outbreak was attributed to - I mean the really
rock bottom cause?
****PLEASE**** don't start me off on *that* one!!!

Isn't the problem that UK market prices are abysmal, because of the
monopoly positions of the main buyers - the supermarkets?

That's another one I don't want to be started off on (

It was called compensation AFAIR.

When you go to the supermarket and give the cashier some money for the
trolley full of goods you are going to take, do you call that
*compensating* the supermarket?

We live on an island: God help us if we ever have a
crisis which means we can't import food and we have no farmers left to
produce it.

You'll find that like in WWII output of the right stuff can quickly be
increased.

Only if we have people around who know *how* to grow it in the first
place. At the current rate that farmers are going bust or giving up, it
won't be long before we don't have any at all ((

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