Argentinean corn in your corn flakes

[Lowland1]

Do we really need maize from another continent for breakfast?

Yes you do. Where do you think your breakfast tea or coffee comes from or maybe you drink orange juice. If you want self sufficiency peoples diets have to change.

 

[Tarw Coch]

If you want self sufficiency peoples diets have to change.

Indeed, as we are only about 60% self sufficient in food production, consumption would need to drop by about 40%

 

[Lowland1]

Indeed, as we are only about 60% self sufficient in food production, consumption would need to drop by about 40%

Or you could eat a lot more cabbage and Swedes.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Or you could eat a lot more cabbage and Swedes.

Two of my favourite veg

 

[Bald Rick]

I don't care where my cornflakes are grown so long as they are saturated in whole milk and nice and soggy in the mouth.

Come at me ..

 

[jellybean]

Why would you eat cornflakes when you can have porridge?

 

[SteveHants]

No weird, puritanical breakfasts for me, thanks.

Perhaps we don't need cornflakes?

 

[Tomo23]

I assume the OPs question is off the back of this program shown the other night. Good program I thought.

My5

www.channel5.com

 

[Against_the_grain]

Difficult to grow grain maize in the UK.

It's not that difficult and more and more acres acre being grown every year.

 

[Exfarmer]

Regular Maize is not very digestibly, that is why it is steamed passed through very hot rollers and baked to make corn flakes
The first cereal breakfast was made in a similar fashion from whole wheat in the UK and sold as Force, it did not sell too well then a Mr Kellog tried a similar process using maize with improved results and made a fortune.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Yes you do. Where do you think your breakfast tea or coffee comes from or maybe you drink orange juice. If you want self sufficiency peoples diets have to change.

Really need?

 

[Lowland1]

The only one RC We have to go back CNNwwcs I will Really need?

If you want cornflakes I’d say yes. I wonder how much milk is sold solely to go on cornflakes?

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

If you want cornflakes I’d say yes. I wonder how much milk is sold solely to go on cornflakes?

Point taken. What I really meant was does it have to come so far when it's grown in France.

 

[le bon paysan]

Well if no tea or coffee at breakfast time time to go back to the good old days...bread and dripping, bacon and eggs and all washed down with small beer.

 

[Netherfield]

Thousands of tonnes of maize used to come from the US for poultry feed, in fact layers meal would be 60% maize, then when we joined the common market, because France grew Maize they decided to put an import levy on any coming from the states, even though France could not produce anything like enough to cover our needs.

Grandad used to say 'there's more goodness in the cardboard packet, than in than stuff inside'

 

[Lowland1]

Point taken. What I really meant was does it have to come so far when it's grown in France.

Fair point. I don’t know maybe it’s a varietal thing.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Fair point. I don’t know maybe it’s a varietal thing.

I suspect it's more of a price thing in reality.

 

[sahara]

Indeed, as we are only about 60% self sufficient in food production, consumption would need to drop by about 40%

Actually a drop of food consumption of 40% would probably be a good thing for our country, judging by what I see waddling around Taunton. I don't imagine other towns are a lot better.

 

[ollie989898]

Yes you do. Where do you think your breakfast tea or coffee comes from or maybe you drink orange juice. If you want self sufficiency peoples diets have to change.

If the non-cornflakers don't like imported cornflakes they are going to go ape over my usual breakfast of smashed avocado and kimchi smoothie with a guava juice chaser.

 

[Lowland1]

If the non-cornflakers don't like imported cornflakes they are going to go ape over my usual breakfast of smashed avocado and kimchi smoothie with a guava juice chaser.

All locally grown and sourced?