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Post by patchypete on Jan 15, 2021 14:00:28 GMT
Damn right! Time to stop all this " anything anytime" bollocks, & start to look after our own growers. Nothing is a special treat anymore, & half the time its a piss poor imitation of the real deal. Strawberries from Spain in winter?, fuck me, they don't taste of anything. Proper produce, from our own soil, when its in season is the way forward IMHO.... This country is cold wet and damp and stuff grows slower. Just how often do you hear that our produce tastes so much better as it's slow-grown. What we produce matches anything produced anywhere in the world for quality and in many cases it's better despite not fitting an EU so called standard. I've had scabby apples from a small Herefordshire orchard which have knocked spots off imported shite and some turd calling foreign cider cidre is just a farce. We can produce food just as good if not better in every way and I'm proud of what we make and grow. We as a Nation can compete with any country on produce and in many ways can do it better but many here just don't get the chance to realise that and miss out due to cheap imports. Some turd calling foreign cider, cidre lmfao ππ€£ππ€£ππ€£brilliant π
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Post by NomadCris on Jan 15, 2021 14:09:06 GMT
Cidre is from the old French dialect 'cisdre' and its a drink thats been made for thousands of years across Europe Middle East and most of the world,not just here in Englandshire. The art of making cider- like most other ancient food and drink production in UK thats been claimed as British - actually has its origins abroad, mostly in Europe or Middle East brought here by Germanics Danes Vikings Romans Bretons Dutch etc etc.
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Post by bungo@mabungo on Jan 15, 2021 14:14:25 GMT
The local stuff you get in Normandy with like a dollop of spunk in the bottom of the bottle is lovely , but the 2% stuff is for children ? They make another 2 nice apple based drinks , Pommeau and Calvados.
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Post by NomadCris on Jan 15, 2021 14:57:47 GMT
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Post by VanWoman84 on Jan 15, 2021 15:03:41 GMT
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Post by bernie on Jan 15, 2021 15:25:15 GMT
Shops like Lidl do mostly UK sourced vegetables and make it a selling point. Many of the salad producers in Cornwall were bankrupted by the EU agricultural policy. You don't qualify for subsidies if you are under a certain size, I think its about 13 acres. Thats bigger than virtually any of the Cornish producers so they couldn't compete and went to the wall CAP and farm subsidies have been a total disaster for most small scale farmers and only the very large agri businesses profiteered because subsidies were aimed solely at the biggest and most efficient through economies of scale. Smaller and family farms have been hung out to dry especially when payments were changed to land area not livestock numbers. Farm subsidies have just become another form of corporate subsidy and should be phased out and scrapped, but no doubt the massive land owning farm businesses will plead poverty,the government will cave in and so i cant see small family farmers being any better off until theres a level playing field not skewed totally to the big boys. As for food sourcing it would help consumers a lot if pack labelling was more honest.The tractor label isnt enough,its a farce. If people can see produce of country or county very prominently on the pack or shelf they can make better choices like it used to years ago,you knew exactly what one of dozens of varieties of veg or fruit you were buying and what county it came from,only exotics came from abroad. Most packaging now has production origin hidden away in miniscule letters on the corner or rear because supermarkets on the whole dont want you knowing theyve bought veg from China or Kenya or cheap chicken from Thailand. Weve technology on our side now that we never had 50 years ago, people are growing fresh salad stuff in converted warehouses in London,weve got polytunnels heated by biogas and ground pump heating. Weather and climate isnt an excuse,except to maintain the status quo for the existing profiteering food industry big operators. When you drive through southern spain it looks like a film set for a spagetti western. Yet all those barren dusty hill are earning thousands of Euros in agricultural subsidy for some land owner who probably can't believe his luck No attempt is ever made to grow anything
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Post by NomadCris on Jan 15, 2021 15:32:29 GMT
I think the (corrupt) change to land area as opposed to livestock numbers made a lot of overnight millionaires,at very least gave a comfortable living for nothing,the only requirement being to qualify for a holding number as a farm enterprise.
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Post by NomadCris on Jan 15, 2021 15:35:03 GMT
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Post by bernie on Jan 15, 2021 16:57:33 GMT
I don't find that too surprising, a lot of migrant workers were employed in the gig economy doing jobs that have just disappeared more or less overnight. But they are floaters, they have little in the way of roots that they have put down so they can retreat back to their home countries whenever they want. Whether they will find it as easy to return here later is another matter. I suppose thats the definition of a migrant worker
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Post by NomadCris on Jan 15, 2021 17:03:37 GMT
I think it was more inevitable than surprising. Farmers and hospitality who rely on paying skanky slave wages to East Europeans will be moaning theyre in danger of going out of business and have to ramp up prices. Same old same old.
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Post by NomadCris on Jan 15, 2021 17:12:43 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Jan 15, 2021 18:50:34 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Jan 15, 2021 19:55:16 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Jan 15, 2021 23:54:45 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Jan 16, 2021 0:05:27 GMT
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