British Farming Post-Brexit

luka

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You can't tell me we need to ship in a load of Poles when 80% of the country is sitting idle.

These government work teams are necessary and inevitable. For gravedigging yes, but also for fruit picking.
 
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Leo

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it's the age-old thing: republican here always complain about foreigners coming and taking our jobs, when of course few natural-born Americans would want to do those jobs such as farming. the good ol' boys at the trump rallies get all fired up about Mexican workers but then cry for federal farm subsidies when their crop rots on the field because there isn't anyone to pick it.

Luka's right, get Harvey Weinstein to pick the lettuce.
 

Leo

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Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein out in the hot field husking corn, that would have been a TMZ home page photo.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
If I were a famous man with a name ending in -stein I'd be proper bricking it right now, I can tell you.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
the good ol' boys at the trump rallies get all fired up about Mexican workers but then cry for federal farm subsidies when their crop rots on the field because there isn't anyone to pick it.

While scorning "scroungers" who "rely on government hand-outs", I don't doubt.
 

Leo

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I'd imagine that's pretty much the situation with farming everywhere. You won't find many middle-class locals picking avocados in California.
 

Mr. Tea

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My knee jerk response is that British farming should die if the only way it can function is by exploiting foreign workers.

It's tempting to think that way but I don't think your average farmer sits about of an evening counting massive piles of cash and guffawing about how great it is that there's all these Polish farm hands to exploit so he can rake in the profits. By all accounts most farms generate an absolute pittance from actual produce sales and can only stay afloat (for now) because of EU subsidies, much of which are paid for owning land that is not being used for farming, ludicrously enough. And the reason farm gate prices are so low is that we buy nearly all our food from a handful of massive supermarkets who - whether they actually sit together to decide what prices they'll pay or not - effectively form a cartel.

I think you can make a good case that the pickers are being exploited, but when you've got supermarket CEOs on seven-figure salaries and farmers making an average of just two grand a year from actual farming, it's pretty clear who's really doing the exploitation.
 

Mr. Tea

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Obviously if British farming goes under we'll just end up importing food from places pulling the same shit or even worse so letting it die isn't really a solution.

Plus if anything goes tits up with the supply chain we'll all end up eating each other, and not in a sexy way.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Warmers summers, so for the love of god legalise it & let us get on with funding education, mental health & harm reduction.

Read a general scathing review or 3 of certain psychedelic conferences held, but David Nutt's Drug Science got Project Twenty 21 up. Give them some land.
 

version

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Wonder how long before they decide to increase the number of prisoners in order to keep various industries afloat.
 
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