I question the logic put up by farmers saying we shouldn't need the NFU and other organs to lobby for food security for two main reasons:the only way we can raise prices, is to produce less, simple economics, supply/demand, and the reason the guv is pushing high tech, and productivity schemes,, more efficiency in their eyes = more cheaper production, and low prices.
if they cannot import enough, for various reasons, war famine weather disease, and they have knocked us back to hard, they are fecked.
but politicians don't think logically, if at all. And the farmers screaming about food security, are not thinking straight, why complain ?
SFI, and the general move to appease the climate zealots, is one of the best things to happen, to UK farmers for decades. Less production, means higher prices, simple.
we are under no obligation to feed the country, they have treated us with derision, why should we think we need to feed them ? That is the guv's duty, that they feck it up, is their problem, not ours.
we desperately need to get out of thinking, 'max production is the best', all that attitude is guv's way of ensuring cheap food. The truth is, less is better, for us, but not for the guv.
- critical mass or lose of self-sustaining infrastructure- once enough farmland ceases being productive, those few remaining will find it harder (unless they're low input - low output). So fewer materials, fewer people to service machines, and what few remain will find costs spiraling upwards.
- the government trusts the corporations to provide food. Corps are directed by profit not service. Remember the fuss in Jan 2023 when the supermarket shelves were empty? Let's see what the spanish and morocco salads are like this summer.