Tariffs

[stewart]

I dont doubt the authenticity of this work, but I think many of us have become very sceptical of many claims of carbon footprint etc.
Many studies are done specifically to look at the very best of one product to the very worst of another. Comparing NZ lamb reared on farms with no supplementary feeding compared to European lamb pushed for a certain market ignores the fact that many lambs here or their mothers get any supplementary feed, which brings them on a par to the NZ with no transport or fridge energy usage.
There are specialist companies across the world whose sole business is greenwashing product for mainly European but also right thinking consumers across the world

As I have mentioned numerous times on this forum, there are three important principles when selling a product, marketing, marketing and marketing.

 

[stewart]

Britain finished paying for the Marshall Plan and WW2 in the late 1990s.

Final repayment of loans to USA and Canada was 2006.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Final repayment of loans to USA and Canada was 2006.

The nature of the material support the USA have to us during WW2 was made clear in the name: "Lease Lend". It had to be paid for.

Without it we'd have collapsed in 1941.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

It's why the world consumes debt. £10 lent to 4 different entities in a chain actually causes £40 of economic activity. Crazy but true.

and conveniently ignores the huge social and environmental costs of the policy.

 

[farmerm]

20 tonnes ha seems a lot for a rice crop, 3 tonnes per hectare would be closer, the Chinese manage to get around 6 but they are good at growing crops.

How many tonnes of nutrients, and which ones, would it take to replace the offtake of 20T of rice? I cant imagine applying large quantities of N or P to a rice paddy field would be great for the environment?

 

[stewart]

The nature of the material support the USA have to us during WW2 was made clear in the name: "Lease Lend". It had to be paid for.

Without it we'd have collapsed in 1941.

The lend lease was during war time, the Marshall plan was after the war was over, both were funded by the USA.