Why buy British food?
- Thread starter FarmyStu
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- Location
- somerset
most guvs require a cheap food policy, and, ours, after covid, has a lot of money to recover, and would not willingly allow food costs to rise. Imagine, taxes have risen substantially, to pay for covid, as a politician, would you want to be accused of 'banning' cheaper imports, making the electorate pay more for food, simply because it's UK ? We are told, a majority of the country, support UK produced food/farmers, not sure that applies, at point of food purchase, if an alternative, is cheaper...........
We will be thrown to the wolves, by any guv, to get trade deals, for manufactured product. The 'sop' will be environmental payments. That, in its self, could prove interesting, it will, to my knowledge, be the first time, 'subsidies', have been/will be, payed, on a 'not actual farming' basis. The major buyers, calculate, SFP etc, in the price they pay us, that, will mean, we can claim the payments, without, (nearly) producing food.
We will be thrown to the wolves, by any guv, to get trade deals, for manufactured product. The 'sop' will be environmental payments. That, in its self, could prove interesting, it will, to my knowledge, be the first time, 'subsidies', have been/will be, payed, on a 'not actual farming' basis. The major buyers, calculate, SFP etc, in the price they pay us, that, will mean, we can claim the payments, without, (nearly) producing food.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Lower food miles
Known provenance
Known minimum production standards
In the extreme, some food will not be produced in systems that would be illegal if practiced over here
When possible you may buy direct from the producer ensuring more margin to the producer and much more importantly a vital link between producer and consumer and between urban and rural communities
My old Man always said that Balance of Payments will win out in the end, although in these times, I am no quite so sure...
yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
The problem is they will not find enough produced to our standards to import
rightly so
those farmers who can market on the basis of higher quality have no worries
it is the food processors and supermarkets supplying products produced below uk legal standards that under cutthe comdities
Cheaper gm crops Hormones tethered sows ect
rape maize pigs chemically washed poultry hormone implanted beef Ect
banned chemicals used inthe production minimum wage of staff ect
- Location
- North Wales
If the government cut the red tape and the UK standards then uk produced food could be supplied cheaper to the general public.
Making UK producer's work to high standards and using the cheap food excuse to allow poorer imports is crazy.
- Location
- East Sussex
The public are crying out for high standard produce..... on the quiet they don't really want to pay for or really care that much.
Now they're going to have to pay for it and put their money where their mouth is.
Now they're going to have to pay for it and put their money where their mouth is.
Just curious, what about GMO crops do you consider to be cheaper?
kfpben
Member
- Location
- Mid Hampshire
Eating in the USA on a fortnight long trip was enough to convince me of the quality of UK food!
- Location
- Yorks
The Red Tractor assured stuff already has a unique selling point, but it seems to make little difference - we still get cheaper imports coming in that are not produced to RT standards.
So if (big IF!) the imported stuff becomes more expensive to produce, then maybe we will have a USP of being price competitive.
- Location
- somerset
very true and worthy points. To the politicians, it's jackshite, most of them engage brain, before answering any questions, to leave you, with what you want to hear, without doing anything. Cheap food, and manufacturing jobs, win votes, the opposite loses them. Furthermore, a large % of the public don't give a .......... where their food comes from, as long as it's cheap. A survey, done outside a waitrose s/mkt, will give you one answer, another done outside an inner city cheapy s/mkt, will give you the opposite, and where do you think the people that actually do the foot work, for these surveys, actually prefer to be ? upmarket store, or downmarket one.
- Location
- somerset
at least you know you wont get food poisoning from it !!!!!
The anti chlorinated chicken is all hype.
If welfare of chickens is the problem then SAY SO, but please list those people who refuse chlorinated drinking water.
- Location
- North Wales
I still can't get my head around a government that would legislate high welfare and crop standards on its own producers but then let in anything else either 'for a deal' or to provide 'cheap' food.
If they're prepared to allow lower standards for imports then they need to acknowledge that our standards are pointless.
If they're prepared to allow lower standards for imports then they need to acknowledge that our standards are pointless.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
I have Redbacks and Dickies (2:6 in ratio)and yet some farmers get their boots flown in from the other side of the world
- Location
- north yorks
rt might have a unique selling point but cant say ive met any consumer who gives a ----- re rt though a lot other than the bargain basement crew are brand loyal but not to some airy fairy logo and most if not all buy on cost but that does not always mean cheapest
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