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Why won’t Brits pick vegetables for £30 an hour?
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7797784" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>But at one time, ourselves included, every farm with suitable land had a couple of acres of potatoes, carrots or cabbage. You could harvest them yourselves with your family and a few local casuals. Sell them at the local market. You weren’t doing it day in day out, it was part of a mix of balanced work and food miles were as low as they could be. Then it all went corporate, including livestock markets, abattoirs etc. Our last lot of lambs went to Bridlington. Chicken houses have to contain tens of thousands all because folk in charge chased a halfpenny advantage over a competitor.</p><p>In my view it’s a kind of madness. That isn’t a criticism of your business model which you’ve undoubtedly worked had and risked a lot to achieve within the framework open to you, but to me there is now a gross imbalance in many things brought about by global corporatism.</p><p>And I agree it’s difficult to get brits to do anything manual. It’s a reality we are stuck with but when the alternative is flying in strawberries from Morroco or Spring onions from Egypt it does feel like somebody somewhere must be leaning very hard now on resources and stretching things to limit just for that halfpenny advantage. </p><p>Maybe I should set up a local market garden and make it work rather than sit around waiting for the beet factory to sort itself it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7797784, member: 2119"] But at one time, ourselves included, every farm with suitable land had a couple of acres of potatoes, carrots or cabbage. You could harvest them yourselves with your family and a few local casuals. Sell them at the local market. You weren’t doing it day in day out, it was part of a mix of balanced work and food miles were as low as they could be. Then it all went corporate, including livestock markets, abattoirs etc. Our last lot of lambs went to Bridlington. Chicken houses have to contain tens of thousands all because folk in charge chased a halfpenny advantage over a competitor. In my view it’s a kind of madness. That isn’t a criticism of your business model which you’ve undoubtedly worked had and risked a lot to achieve within the framework open to you, but to me there is now a gross imbalance in many things brought about by global corporatism. And I agree it’s difficult to get brits to do anything manual. It’s a reality we are stuck with but when the alternative is flying in strawberries from Morroco or Spring onions from Egypt it does feel like somebody somewhere must be leaning very hard now on resources and stretching things to limit just for that halfpenny advantage. Maybe I should set up a local market garden and make it work rather than sit around waiting for the beet factory to sort itself it. [/QUOTE]
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