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It's the supermarkets to blame
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<blockquote data-quote="BAF" data-source="post: 8094401" data-attributes="member: 158121"><p>I'm feeling aggrieved at your exclamation marks. I need a safe space to recover.</p><p></p><p>Supermarkets will always win, why did they come about? Because people wanted cheap food all under 1 roof. I remember thinking as a kid our Supermarkets are a bit crap compared to the hyper marchés in France.</p><p></p><p>There are 2 big problems with food in this country...3 if you count vegans. 1 people are so far removed from their food they don't understand where it comes from, when it's in season and what to do with it. We're as guilty as anyone else, our youngest loves strawberries and eats them like sweets. Costs us a bloody fortune to buy imported Spanish strawberries all winter but fruit is better than sweets and chocolate! And the eldest would live on cheesy pasta and salty noodles if we let her in-between hormonal mood swings and teenage angst <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p></p><p>2 food poverty. Who were the ones eating the rotten cheap lasagne when the horse meat scandal kicked off? People that were on a budget and couldn't afford to eat anything else. If they'd been discounted to 50% off or more they'd have sold out faster than they could restock the shelves! 2 for the price of one they wouldn't care if it was dog they were getting!</p><p></p><p>I honestly don't know what the answer is. Farm shops are expensive. I wouldn't shop in one because we couldn't afford it. People growing their own stuff? Most people can't look after a pot plant and shouldn't be allowed a gerbil never mind some sort of animal destined to be eaten. Or maybe it is. Maybe make schools have a vegetable plot and rear some meat chickens or something. We produce thousands of tonnes of wild game each year that gets exported because people don't know or are frightened to use it and it's sold at a premium and as such we produce more than we can use. There's no easy answer. </p><p></p><p>We're lucky here at home, I kill our own lambs and I can do pigs if I really have to but they're a lot of work and better sent to the abattoir! We don't have cattle but I do shoot deer so we substitute beef with venison and we rear chickens and turkeys seasonally so we never really buy any meat and we've got a decent sized veg patch this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BAF, post: 8094401, member: 158121"] I'm feeling aggrieved at your exclamation marks. I need a safe space to recover. Supermarkets will always win, why did they come about? Because people wanted cheap food all under 1 roof. I remember thinking as a kid our Supermarkets are a bit crap compared to the hyper marchés in France. There are 2 big problems with food in this country...3 if you count vegans. 1 people are so far removed from their food they don't understand where it comes from, when it's in season and what to do with it. We're as guilty as anyone else, our youngest loves strawberries and eats them like sweets. Costs us a bloody fortune to buy imported Spanish strawberries all winter but fruit is better than sweets and chocolate! And the eldest would live on cheesy pasta and salty noodles if we let her in-between hormonal mood swings and teenage angst 😂 2 food poverty. Who were the ones eating the rotten cheap lasagne when the horse meat scandal kicked off? People that were on a budget and couldn't afford to eat anything else. If they'd been discounted to 50% off or more they'd have sold out faster than they could restock the shelves! 2 for the price of one they wouldn't care if it was dog they were getting! I honestly don't know what the answer is. Farm shops are expensive. I wouldn't shop in one because we couldn't afford it. People growing their own stuff? Most people can't look after a pot plant and shouldn't be allowed a gerbil never mind some sort of animal destined to be eaten. Or maybe it is. Maybe make schools have a vegetable plot and rear some meat chickens or something. We produce thousands of tonnes of wild game each year that gets exported because people don't know or are frightened to use it and it's sold at a premium and as such we produce more than we can use. There's no easy answer. We're lucky here at home, I kill our own lambs and I can do pigs if I really have to but they're a lot of work and better sent to the abattoir! We don't have cattle but I do shoot deer so we substitute beef with venison and we rear chickens and turkeys seasonally so we never really buy any meat and we've got a decent sized veg patch this year. [/QUOTE]
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