Pick up any processed food in the supermarket and every single one of them will have either sunflower oil or canola/rape oil. None of it cold pressed before you even ask. Americans now get over 33% of their annual calories from linoleic acid which is the prime FA in sunflower oil. Humans only need tiny amounts of linoleic acid. At least, in the UK food processors are a bit more inclined to use rape oil. Still leaves a lot of sunflower oil used in fast food outlets here though…
Janet Hughes DEFRA Missing in action?
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Make your own food = live longer
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Tupping raddle.
2 of your 5 a day??Never noticed any difference in our local town Tesco. Certainly plenty of wine and chocolate
Missus said the same last week, as she had been trawling around 3 of the biggies for some specific items and said the shelves for many items across the board, were in short supply.
ollie989898
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I bet the majority of fast food outlets fry their wares in rapeseed oil. Not that I actually eat huge amounts of takeaway mind.
Ditto crisps and the like. I don't eat that kind of thing very often, only when I am on a break at work and bored do I venture down the crisp section. Normally buy fruit, usually bananas.
There was a story in the papers a few weeks ago about how all the fish and chip shops were screaming that they were all going to go out of business because of the drying up of supplies of sunflower oil.
I’ve just looked at three different packets of crisps that we have lying about the house and they all contain sunflower oil as second or first ingredient. First FFS!! Once you start looking you find out how we’re all consuming huge amounts of this stuff without even knowing that we are, never mind how bad they are for us.
Wolds Beef
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@Janet Hughes Defra We hope you are OK. Maybe you could just give us a hint of the reason you have gone to ground. The farming community deserve answers as there are three things in life everybody needs, Food, Water and Warmth. The first is essential and by the looks of the above is running into a problem. Please at least reply to one of the threads if your masters! will let you.
WB
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Looking at her profile, she’s logging in to look but not post, with the last couple of posts she made (1/4/22) indicating that Janet was suffering from Covid.
- Location
- Limousin, France
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- Northumberland
I suspect that the devil is in the detail. Does he mean that imports will have to be to our minimum legal standards, or to the gold-plated RT standards that most of us are (voluntarily
) compulsorily producing to?Do you believe the politician though? Even eels regard Gove as slippery.
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
which means a shortage of sunflower oil can only be good for the nations health. Just started cooking with lard to fry in here at home.
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- Devon
The devil was in the date;I suspect that the devil is in the detail. Does he mean that imports will have to be to our minimum legal standards, or to the gold-plated RT standards that most of us are (voluntarily
7/10/18
Since then, many trade deals have been agreed and as far as I'm aware, imports are not required to meet some of our most basic standards or legal equivalents.
Infinitely better. The biggest component of lard is monounsaturated much to everyone’s astonishment.
Agreed Janet, i have written and spoke to my MP over the last 3 years,well i can get more sence talking to my dog.
Totally out of touch with reality!
Courier
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And when my MP is a quiet opposition backbencher with a range of priorities where Ag is somewhere at the lower end of the 1st percentile where am I supposed to turn ? @Janet Hughes Defra
Do you think it will happen? Unlikely me thinks.
Be interesting to see