US Chicken imports?

[Cowabunga]

No chips on my shoulders and I do compete and make my full living from my little farm. I'm still allowed to disagree with the system. I appreciate that many in receipt of the larger handouts would rather folk like me didn't have a voice and take every opportunity to disparage and discredit them.

Do you make your full living from the farm? Who's the hobby farmer here?

Yes.
Hens must pay far more than they should or you are relying on social security for your income.
I think you'll find that no matter what the scale of your hen enterprise, you are already on a level playing field because I do not recall there being a hen or chicken subsidy any more than a pig one.

 

[Pasty]

Yes.
Hens must pay far more than they should or you are relying on social security for your income.
I think you'll find that no matter what the scale of your hen enterprise, you are already on a level playing field because I do not recall there being a hen or chicken subsidy any more than a pig one.

I don't get a penny in social security. I make my full income from my farm. You do like to throw insults around with zero basis in fact. Just because you couldn't do it, doesn't mean somebody else can't.

 

[caveman]

Is it? Small hobby farmers in the UK are by definition 'hobby' farmers, not commercial businesses.
If the hobby farmer wishes to be commercially viable he should work with and compete with all other commercial farmers on the same terms.
What I do agree with is the view that too much money goes to individual big businesses that are on a large scale.
What is a large scale? That's not for me to say but I suspect it is considerably larger that hobby farmers that are not dependant on farm income would like.

Errrrr.
It was you who introduced the word "hobby"........ probably on an attempt to belittle others....... as is your style.
Never mind.
Fact is.
There are plenty of very large farming models out there that are not going to compete.
Not all doom and gloom though.
Whose to say there won't be a huge reduction in the price of imported raw inputs?
Are there large tariffs on the likes of soya, feed grains, fuel etc that could be drastically cut?

 

[Exfarmer]

There are currently no tarriffs on grain but soya carries a 4.5% duty
There are no tarriffs applied to fuel although our government takes a cut and levies VAT of which 1% ( i think). Goes to the EU

 

[Fossil]

A lot of posts express a view that the public choose their food and where it comes from. I wonder what proportion of food is now through the catering trade? I suspect a lot of working people now eat a third of their meals out of the house (lunches at work during the week, meal out at the weekend and a take away one eve a week). In these cases people have no idea generally of the origin of the food, they eat what the nearest sandwich shop to the office provides....

 

[Goweresque]

Its interesting that people don't want chlorinated chicken, but are quite happy for their kids to swim in chlorinated pools.......

 

[rob1]

Its interesting that people don't want chlorinated chicken, but are quite happy for their kids to swim in chlorinated pools.......

because its been hyped up into a scare story, cant think why ????

 

[The_Swede]

Easy for me to say as someone who is is the grand scheme of things fairly comfortably off but chicken as a rule is already ludicrously cheep... sorry couldn't resist it but my wider point remains!

 

[caveman]

What's chlorinated chicken got to do with animal welfare?
Is Gove suggesting the chicken fattening business UK would become even more horrendous in an attempt to compete on price?

 

[pellow]

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