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03-06-2011, 08:52 PM
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Poor old Farmers ............ again :-(
On Jun 3, 12:34*am, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:32:10 +0100, Sacha wrote: It's a question of supermarket chains dictating the prices they pay AND being able to buy YOUR food at cheaper prices from other countries which more heavily subsidise their farmers, pay less to workers or factory farm their animals. Hear, hear. The food market as dominated by the big supermarkets is not a free market. The buyers are dictating the price not the sellers based on cost plus. This why large numbers of diary farmers *are* giving up milk production. If you're happy with that and look forward to paying much, much higher prices in years to come when there's no locally produced food, therefore no choice and all is imported, you have the right attitude. Or get used to nothing on the shelves when food gets into real shortage for any number of reasons from bad weather to politics. Will a country export food when it's own population are starving and holding food riots? I think not, where does that leave us? Hungry that's where. It is a very dangerous path to tread relying on imports for significant amounts of the staple foods. -- Cheers Dave. That also applies to fuel. |
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