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Should AHDB charge a levy on imported grain?
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<blockquote data-quote="farenheit" data-source="post: 7580351" data-attributes="member: 27402"><p>1) They don't contribute anything to the development of imported grain, so why should they get any money? </p><p></p><p>2) How the hell would you reasonably enforce an assured crop standard for imported crops? Most countries presumably don't have such a standard so wouldn't be able to produce the evidence anyway. If your answer is "well then we will just have to rely on home grown crops", I suggest you look at what we can actually grow (and what people wish to eat). We already do DON/ZON and ergot tests etc on the ships so that is really the most you can ask for, ie: what you can physically see in the produce. </p><p>No matter how much we play it, most people will quite reasonably use the argument of "well we don't expect Chinese factory workers to be paid £8.91 an hour and for their factories to have the same H+S standards as us when we import their trainers" and we can then say "well good luck having a British food industry in future" and they'll say "well we used to have a shoe making industry but I don't remember any farmers standing up for them". Regardless of that, food <em>is </em>a national security issue, but so is steel, concrete, weapons, electricity production, and we export nearly all of those.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farenheit, post: 7580351, member: 27402"] 1) They don't contribute anything to the development of imported grain, so why should they get any money? 2) How the hell would you reasonably enforce an assured crop standard for imported crops? Most countries presumably don't have such a standard so wouldn't be able to produce the evidence anyway. If your answer is "well then we will just have to rely on home grown crops", I suggest you look at what we can actually grow (and what people wish to eat). We already do DON/ZON and ergot tests etc on the ships so that is really the most you can ask for, ie: what you can physically see in the produce. No matter how much we play it, most people will quite reasonably use the argument of "well we don't expect Chinese factory workers to be paid £8.91 an hour and for their factories to have the same H+S standards as us when we import their trainers" and we can then say "well good luck having a British food industry in future" and they'll say "well we used to have a shoe making industry but I don't remember any farmers standing up for them". Regardless of that, food [I]is [/I]a national security issue, but so is steel, concrete, weapons, electricity production, and we export nearly all of those. [/QUOTE]
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