Clarkson does it again

[AnnaMooMoo]

It isn’t going to be popular with those who want to buy a pile of pork chops for a £5er but…

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...y-enough-for-food-says-farmer-jeremy-clarkson

 

[Bury the Trash]

its a topsy turvy old World thats fer sure

Squeeze are asking concertgoers to bring food bank donations to their Brighton gig

The band is asking concertgoers to bring non-perishable food to their gigs to donate to an anti-poverty charity.

www.theargus.co.uk

 

[Steevo]

It isn’t going to be popular with those who want to buy a pile of pork chops for a £5er but…

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...y-enough-for-food-says-farmer-jeremy-clarkson

Fair play to him for saying it how it is.

The thing is Jeremy is probably selling it for 10x the average price so is already getting that and more.

Pork shouldn’t be his prices, but I agree should be a lot higher price than it is, especially if the customers really want the welfare they and the government say they do.

 

[ajd132]

Fair play to him for saying it how it is.

The thing is Jeremy is probably selling it for 10x the average price so is already getting that and more.

Pork shouldn’t be his prices, but I agree should be a lot higher price than it is, especially if the customers really want the welfare they and the government say they do.

The welfare thing doesn’t work. A few foodies write about it, most people buy on price.

 

[Tubbylew]

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Well worth a listen

 

[Still Farming]

As his agent said in 1st show you got to get 40% mark up?

 

[Hindsight]

It isn’t going to be popular with those who want to buy a pile of pork chops for a £5er but…

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...y-enough-for-food-says-farmer-jeremy-clarkson

Says a rich man who earns far more than the average wage slave. Simples really if you have his income. Sorry appreciate not the thing to say on a farming forum. But do please ponder.

 

[Bald Rick]

Story been picked up by the Times (for whom he writes - at least the Sunday edition).

Did the Guardian article cover his attempts to get pigs to mate in horizontal rain whilst his girlfriend rubbed another sow on the back ?

 

[Hilly]

Says a rich man who earns far more than the average wage slave. Simples really if you have his income. Sorry appreciate not the thing to say on a farming forum. But do please ponder.

Whos side are you on ? Its a battle of market share and we are loosing , do you want to be a looser or a winner ?

 

[Tubbylew]

Story been picked up by the Times (for whom he writes - at least the Sunday edition).

Did the Guardian article cover his attempts to get pigs to mate in horizontal rain whilst his girlfriend rubbed another sow on the back ?

Like I said it's worth a listen just to hear him tell that story.

 

[010101]

Says a rich man who earns far more than the average wage slave. Simples really if you have his income. Sorry appreciate not the thing to say on a farming forum. But do please ponder.

I hear you.
If food prices are going to go up (it isn't that big an if), perhaps he is like a scout, warning the troops that he serves of impending danger.

I'd love to call him The Duke in Wellingtons but I can't find a pun that fits with Napoleon, so I gave up on that one.

 

[Hindsight]

Whos side are you on ? Its a battle of market share and we are loosing , do you want to be a looser or a winner ?

I was playing devil’s advocate Hilly. To be successful arguing a case is essential to see the argument from the other side, so you are prepared for an alternative view, and have thought through and prepared the counter argument. Clarkson makes a valid point. And because he is popular then it may well be he will have more impact than any number of ‘real?’ farmers shouting. TESCO possibly more frightened of the adverse PR of tackling Clarkson than Batters. And he is more able to shrug off the multi millionaire land owner tag. Best wishes.

 

[Hilly]

I was playing devil’s advocate Hilly. To be successful arguing a case is essential to see the argument from the other side, so you are prepared for an alternative view, and have thought through and prepared the counter argument. Clarkson makes a valid point. And because he is popular then it may well be he will have more impact than any number of ‘real?’ farmers shouting. TESCO possibly more frightened of the adverse PR of tackling Clarkson than Batters. And he is more able to shrug off the multi millionaire land owner tag. Best wishes.

Dose the amount of money one has or has not change the oppinian of what is said ? If i have no pot to urinate in folk agree with me or im a billionaire they automatically disagree??

 

[Longlowdog]

@Hindsight , not a chance I'll ponder that, not an ounce or a moment. Just because anyone has amassed wealth be that millions or billions doesn't mean they are removed from reality, and nor coincidentally do I believe it makes them a cash cow or a scapegoat for a failed social system.

 

[Hindsight]

@Hindsight , not a chance I'll ponder that, not an ounce or a moment. Just because anyone has amassed wealth be that millions or billions doesn't mean they are removed from reality, and nor coincidentally do I believe it makes them a cash cow or a scapegoat for a failed social system.

OK.

 

[Hindsight]

Dose the amount of money one has or has not change the oppinian of what is said ? If i have no pot to urinate in folk agree with me or im a billionaire they automatically disagree??

In my view yes it can. In the context of this forum exchange we are conversing about my alternative take on Mr Clarksons comments about price of food. I think it reasonable you as a farmer support his comment. I was maybe taking a view of a consumer on a limited budget, saying Mr Clarkson as a wealthy man can say I should pay more for food. I do as well as the farms I work for want higher prices. But let's consider if it was another wealthy man espousing on another subject about which you didn't agree, would you be quite so accommodating? Don't know I suppose. I suppose a recent neutral example is our prime minister Mr Sunak and chancellor Mr Hunt. Both saying to the ordinary wage earnings worker times will be tougher. But both men of means. Maybe it is easier to be honest when disconnected and protected from that reality by personal circumstances, in the case of those two plenty of available cash. Hey ho.

 

[010101]

another wealthy man

What if it was David Attenborough?

It ain't solely the reputed wealth that the individual has amassed. In the media or the realm of commercially sensitive public opinion there is a whole extra layer of reality.
To what level a person's opinion is supported (or denigrated) on social media and other news outlets is not that simple.

 

[Hilly]

In my view yes it can. In the context of this forum exchange we are conversing about my alternative take on Mr Clarksons comments about price of food. I think it reasonable you as a farmer support his comment. I was maybe taking a view of a consumer on a limited budget, saying Mr Clarkson as a wealthy man can say I should pay more for food. I do as well as the farms I work for want higher prices. But let's consider if it was another wealthy man espousing on another subject about which you didn't agree, would you be quite so accommodating? Don't know I suppose. I suppose a recent neutral example is our prime minister Mr Sunak and chancellor Mr Hunt. Both saying to the ordinary wage earnings worker times will be tougher. But both men of means. Maybe it is easier to be honest when disconnected and protected from that reality by personal circumstances, in the case of those two plenty of available cash. Hey ho.

Who is on a budget ? Min wage thuck emd of a tenner hr very few in employment in min wage , its market share and we are loosing , why ?

 

[Hilly]

@Hindsight , not a chance I'll ponder that, not an ounce or a moment. Just because anyone has amassed wealth be that millions or billions doesn't mean they are removed from reality, and nor coincidentally do I believe it makes them a cash cow or a scapegoat for a failed social system.

Jealousy is a big problem , its a floor in human nature.

 

[andybk]

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