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<blockquote data-quote="kiwi pom" data-source="post: 7136649" data-attributes="member: 946"><p>I do tend to agree with you, I'm not sure people want to eat a local seasonal diet though. How do we change that?</p><p>If you're going to change it you perhaps need to change the way people farm too.</p><p>For example, grow soy beans in the UK, invest in the supply chain to process the bean.</p><p>You mention that wheat not suitable for bread is fed to animals who turn it into food, sounds great. The reality is the wheat is grown for the animal feed in the first place because apparently it's too hard/not profitable to grow milling wheat, which is instead imported.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand you could say the UK is crap at growing milling wheat and soy beans but excellent at growing feed wheat so it is overall more efficient to grow the feed wheat in the UK and the milling wheat and beans elsewhere and chuck in a bit more transport, to move them round.</p><p></p><p>I've no idea which argument, if any is right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kiwi pom, post: 7136649, member: 946"] I do tend to agree with you, I'm not sure people want to eat a local seasonal diet though. How do we change that? If you're going to change it you perhaps need to change the way people farm too. For example, grow soy beans in the UK, invest in the supply chain to process the bean. You mention that wheat not suitable for bread is fed to animals who turn it into food, sounds great. The reality is the wheat is grown for the animal feed in the first place because apparently it's too hard/not profitable to grow milling wheat, which is instead imported. On the other hand you could say the UK is crap at growing milling wheat and soy beans but excellent at growing feed wheat so it is overall more efficient to grow the feed wheat in the UK and the milling wheat and beans elsewhere and chuck in a bit more transport, to move them round. I've no idea which argument, if any is right. [/QUOTE]
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