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<blockquote data-quote="Dave645" data-source="post: 8637938" data-attributes="member: 55822"><p>UK farming should already be added to the fair trade scheme initiative's, as it seems the cost of production is already totally ignored by retailers/supermarkets.</p><p></p><p>the passing on of costs they have created with online selling seems like the next step to keep retail insulated from the pressures of the food chain that farmers feel everyday, at what point do they take ownership of the food they sell, from how I understand it, its only after 30 days from its sale date, when refunds and returns are not an option only then do they pay the supplier, so they take no risk. for any product defects unsold stock or returns, they have stacked the deck to avoid costs and pushed it down the line where the processor and ultimately primary producers carry the costs. </p><p></p><p>This is not just a UK problem its a world wide one, primary producers are at the mercy of commodity brokers setting prices based on there whims and world wide prices that don't resemble the cost base that high welfare, assured produce requires in the UK, the farmer gets paid only after the costs of any middle men that act as processers, distribution, or packaging, are covered if this now includes a new 'fulfilment fee' its just the latest in a long line of changes they have introduced to pass cost down and away from retail, and at no point is anyone bothered what the farmer is getting as long as it leaves them with a profit, what the farmer gets is his lookout, because we are hundreds of thousands of farms of all sizes, they just think if one cannot supply it someone else will, they use the hammer of the globule supply chain price and its availability to squash UK farm gate prices down to match them, the reality is the majority of the time its on the back of another farmer taking below the cost of production prices for there produce somewhere else in the world.</p><p></p><p>fare trade food and far more stringent packaging laws on what can have a union jack placed on its packaging, are needed, often the UK shopper is happy to support the UK farmer, but under the current rules that's next to impossible to do.</p><p>Your just as likely to be buying EU meat with a union jack on its packaging label as truly British.</p><p></p><p>retail, talk the talk, about green and sustainable but the reality is price is king, the rest is just a great marketing scheme to let the consumer believe they are supporting those things when shopping with them.</p><p>What's more sustainable than produce, produced in the UK, by UK farmers at a sustainable price, under UK law and hygiene rules, in high welfare systems, with the shortest food miles possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave645, post: 8637938, member: 55822"] UK farming should already be added to the fair trade scheme initiative's, as it seems the cost of production is already totally ignored by retailers/supermarkets. the passing on of costs they have created with online selling seems like the next step to keep retail insulated from the pressures of the food chain that farmers feel everyday, at what point do they take ownership of the food they sell, from how I understand it, its only after 30 days from its sale date, when refunds and returns are not an option only then do they pay the supplier, so they take no risk. for any product defects unsold stock or returns, they have stacked the deck to avoid costs and pushed it down the line where the processor and ultimately primary producers carry the costs. This is not just a UK problem its a world wide one, primary producers are at the mercy of commodity brokers setting prices based on there whims and world wide prices that don't resemble the cost base that high welfare, assured produce requires in the UK, the farmer gets paid only after the costs of any middle men that act as processers, distribution, or packaging, are covered if this now includes a new 'fulfilment fee' its just the latest in a long line of changes they have introduced to pass cost down and away from retail, and at no point is anyone bothered what the farmer is getting as long as it leaves them with a profit, what the farmer gets is his lookout, because we are hundreds of thousands of farms of all sizes, they just think if one cannot supply it someone else will, they use the hammer of the globule supply chain price and its availability to squash UK farm gate prices down to match them, the reality is the majority of the time its on the back of another farmer taking below the cost of production prices for there produce somewhere else in the world. fare trade food and far more stringent packaging laws on what can have a union jack placed on its packaging, are needed, often the UK shopper is happy to support the UK farmer, but under the current rules that's next to impossible to do. Your just as likely to be buying EU meat with a union jack on its packaging label as truly British. retail, talk the talk, about green and sustainable but the reality is price is king, the rest is just a great marketing scheme to let the consumer believe they are supporting those things when shopping with them. What's more sustainable than produce, produced in the UK, by UK farmers at a sustainable price, under UK law and hygiene rules, in high welfare systems, with the shortest food miles possible. [/QUOTE]
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