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James Rebanks on Radio 4 this morning
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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 7856077" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>You hit upon the very reason Henson and Jimmy's farm et al are the sort of folk I can't abide nor watch. The portrayal of what they do is aimed at good-lifers (and Clarkson is just another of these) who all dream of living in the country, earning £100,000 a year in their home office and the pishing around keeping 4 cows and a pony as fat as a pig at the weekends. People so posh they have wellies outside the front door that will only ever be worn to the pub and never acquire a genuine scent on the inside.</p><p></p><p>It's a fudging pipe dream. You can't make money keeping 5 pigs and a half acre of strawberries or 14 different rare breed nags that even a Polish lasagne factory wouldn't take. It's the real deal farmers out there that rarely get a showing on TV because in reality their lives don't appeal to the masses living it up in Surrey.</p><p></p><p>It takes a sizeable industry to be able to meet the demands of the food chain as it stands. Many failings it may well have but people are not starving to death in the UK.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 7856077, member: 54866"] You hit upon the very reason Henson and Jimmy's farm et al are the sort of folk I can't abide nor watch. The portrayal of what they do is aimed at good-lifers (and Clarkson is just another of these) who all dream of living in the country, earning £100,000 a year in their home office and the pishing around keeping 4 cows and a pony as fat as a pig at the weekends. People so posh they have wellies outside the front door that will only ever be worn to the pub and never acquire a genuine scent on the inside. It's a fudging pipe dream. You can't make money keeping 5 pigs and a half acre of strawberries or 14 different rare breed nags that even a Polish lasagne factory wouldn't take. It's the real deal farmers out there that rarely get a showing on TV because in reality their lives don't appeal to the masses living it up in Surrey. It takes a sizeable industry to be able to meet the demands of the food chain as it stands. Many failings it may well have but people are not starving to death in the UK. [/QUOTE]
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