Egg shortage , Sainsbury’s

[4course]

As long as it’s cheap the vast majority of people don't care how it's produced or where it comes from, that goes for politicians as well.

for clarification do you mean mean cheap politicians and dont care where they come from cos you are bang on on both counts............

 

[kiwi pom]

Am I missing something, surely any country should supply as much food of it’s own as possible so not be too reliant on imports , which could go short ,at anytime. All it takes is a natural disaster somewhere or another Putin and supply is out the window. Surely the energy crisis highlighted this fact. Lessons learned from 2 world wars have been forgotten.

The UK already produces a lot of food, doesn't it?
I get what you are saying but I don't think it's a simple problem to solve.
How do you make sure that the right things are produced in the right quantities at a price that allows the whole chain to make money and that the consumer can afford?

 

[JockCroft]

The UK already produces a lot of food, doesn't it?
I get what you are saying but I don't think it's a simple problem to solve.
How do you make sure that the right things are produced in the right quantities at a price that allows the whole chain to make money and that the consumer can afford?

Thats what subsidies and marketing boards were introduced to try and balance supply and demand.

Farming has excelled in driving increased production over the last 60+ years leading to the consumer spending a steadily reducing percentage of their income on food.
Like everything else, this is changing.

How it will continue to change, beyond my abilities to try and imagine, except that for this country, it is unlikely that we will see real hunger scarcity, unless there is a world changing catastrophe, but that is a definite risk.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Story in tomorrow’s i newspaper;

Meanwhile in France they have laws protecting food producers from supermarket power that ban sale for below COP. And here we have the genius Hunt demanding supermarkets screw the remaining producers until we’ve no food left. Him and Sunak really are quite the comedy double act.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Story in tomorrow’s i newspaper;

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Meanwhile in France they have laws protecting food producers from supermarket power that ban sale for below COP. And here we have the genius Hunt demanding supermarkets screw the remaining producers until we’ve no food left. Him and Sunak really are quite the comedy double act.

Comedy double act?
What you’re talking about above affects peoples lives and jobs, as well as the nation’s food security, the fact that they’re clowns doesn’t make them funny

 

[DaveGrohl]

Comedy double act?
What you’re talking about above affects peoples lives and jobs, as well as the nation’s food security, the fact that they’re clowns doesn’t make them funny

As in, you either laugh or cry.

 

[Martin Holden]

Sainsbury’s in Ludlow this morning….. shambles

With all the egg and broiler production in your area this is rather ironic

 

[Martin Holden]

Plenty of eggs here in France.

I blame Brexit!!

 

[Chrismc530]

The English egg companies are actively trying to recruit producers in NI at the minute.

Few local producers here (Armagh) have recently started supplying St ewes in Cornwall , right spin. We’ve been supplying Nobles for years. Irish egg companies can’t compete

 

[Chrismc530]

Of course English caulie is in season now.

Plant late July grows a big frame, which reduces over winter. Top dress late Feb harvest late March to early June, when March planted crops become available.

Sadly this year the over wintered caulie got a kicking from minus 9C frosts.

Not many locally chancing over winter cauli and sweetheart now with the cost of production and low yield if any yield at all. Spain seems to take over supply from December to June/July

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Thats what subsidies and marketing boards were introduced to try and balance supply and demand.

Farming has excelled in driving increased production over the last 60+ years leading to the consumer spending a steadily reducing percentage of their income on food.
Like everything else, this is changing.

How it will continue to change, beyond my abilities to try and imagine, except that for this country, it is unlikely that we will see real hunger scarcity, unless there is a world changing catastrophe, but that is a definite risk.

 

[JockCroft]

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Bit puzzled by the post 1990's large reductions in fertilisers and energy.
Can you copy the quote qual (11) please.

 

[7610 super q]

Suppliers stopped supplying cos they weren't making any money shocker.............

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Bit puzzled by the post 1990's large reductions in fertilisers and energy.
Can you copy the quote qual (11) please.

I found that rather intriguing.
Sadly I couldn't see any information on how they arrived at that conclusion.

My post was taken from;

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03339/SN03339.pdf