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George Monbiot "how we ended up paying farmers to flood our homes"
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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 1956014" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>There's one simple question to ask the likes of GM - are you prepared to ban the import of any food into the UK that wasn't produced under the standards you demand from UK farmers? Because if they aren't then they are massive hypocrites - demanding UK farmers produce food under rules that do not apply to imports (and thus will go out of business en mass) while they stuff their faces with cheap food that wasn't produced here or under our rules. If they are prepared to call for import bans, then happy days, because UK farming would then have a captive market, and prices would reflect production costs - they'd have to or there would be no food. Of course all that would mean leaving the EU, which might make GM's head explode at the contradiction between ideas, but thats a plus point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 1956014, member: 818"] There's one simple question to ask the likes of GM - are you prepared to ban the import of any food into the UK that wasn't produced under the standards you demand from UK farmers? Because if they aren't then they are massive hypocrites - demanding UK farmers produce food under rules that do not apply to imports (and thus will go out of business en mass) while they stuff their faces with cheap food that wasn't produced here or under our rules. If they are prepared to call for import bans, then happy days, because UK farming would then have a captive market, and prices would reflect production costs - they'd have to or there would be no food. Of course all that would mean leaving the EU, which might make GM's head explode at the contradiction between ideas, but thats a plus point. [/QUOTE]
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