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<blockquote data-quote="teslacoils" data-source="post: 7798820" data-attributes="member: 127792"><p>While it may make good BBc / Wail On Sunday fodder, rising prices for the base commodities UK growers produce have good as zero impact on the UK consumer. Factor back 5p on a loaf of bread to wheat prices - great for us and zero real impact for consumers. Compare to 5p on a soy latte, dearer avocados, etc. Adding 50 percent to the price of chicken or pork and it's still cheap meat to those who merrily get their kids new iPhones for christmas. Get some perspective. Food is cheap. If food at the till goes up 50 percent it will still be cheap. Yes, food banks blah blah blah but most will, at worst, just have to do with two holidays to the Carribbean etc. </p><p></p><p>With respect, f**k the govt and the public. Nothing I do now directly obligates me to make cheap food for them. At today's prices we're better off without their "subsidy" so sod them. They want imported Chinese white goods, fancy holidays, Primark fashion and ihpones. My heart in no way bleeds for them. They won't turn up with flaming brands demanding my wheat and if they did I'd remind them of the basis of English contract law and request that the police politely asked them to "go down the road, turn left and f**k off". </p><p></p><p>Public and govt have been whining about us for ages. Let's see what a low input, low carbon, low output, zero govt carrots and sticks system looks like. </p><p></p><p>Tldr we have no obligation to feed the British public. We do have an obligation to maximise our own businesses based on the signals of govt and consumer - less carbon, less fert, etc. More profit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="teslacoils, post: 7798820, member: 127792"] While it may make good BBc / Wail On Sunday fodder, rising prices for the base commodities UK growers produce have good as zero impact on the UK consumer. Factor back 5p on a loaf of bread to wheat prices - great for us and zero real impact for consumers. Compare to 5p on a soy latte, dearer avocados, etc. Adding 50 percent to the price of chicken or pork and it's still cheap meat to those who merrily get their kids new iPhones for christmas. Get some perspective. Food is cheap. If food at the till goes up 50 percent it will still be cheap. Yes, food banks blah blah blah but most will, at worst, just have to do with two holidays to the Carribbean etc. With respect, f**k the govt and the public. Nothing I do now directly obligates me to make cheap food for them. At today's prices we're better off without their "subsidy" so sod them. They want imported Chinese white goods, fancy holidays, Primark fashion and ihpones. My heart in no way bleeds for them. They won't turn up with flaming brands demanding my wheat and if they did I'd remind them of the basis of English contract law and request that the police politely asked them to "go down the road, turn left and f**k off". Public and govt have been whining about us for ages. Let's see what a low input, low carbon, low output, zero govt carrots and sticks system looks like. Tldr we have no obligation to feed the British public. We do have an obligation to maximise our own businesses based on the signals of govt and consumer - less carbon, less fert, etc. More profit. [/QUOTE]
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