Brexit set to make UK more dependent on food imports, MPs warn – Cross-party committee says labour shortages caused primarily by leaving EU will shrink UK food production unless dealt with
Brexit set to make UK more dependent on food imports, MPs warn – Cross-party committee says labour shortages caused primarily by leaving EU will shrink UK food production unless dealt with
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Food security is national security. Farms should pay a living wage. If they can’t then the local government should buy up idle land, turn them in to cooperatives owned by farmers and workers that live in the local community, and subsidise them so they can pay a living wage.
Nobody could have predicted this, absolutely nobody, out of nowhere it came. Total shock!
As well as the government’s own plan to reward efforts to protect biodiversity over food production as the replacement for the funding farmers received from the EU. While protecting biodiversity is vital and should be encouraged whenever possible, reducing our reliance on imports is a great way to reduce agriculture’s impact on the environment. The government is going to oversee a lot of farmers going bankrupt at this rate.
Two points immediately present themselves:
1. Either a country is dependent on food imports or it is not, and
2. Somehow Great Britain was able to ‘feed itself’ when it had a much smaller labour pool who were operating without any of the amenities of the industrial era.
Of course, we now have vastly more mouths to feed, but if we are unable to do so, the one thing that cannot be to blame is a ‘labour shortage’. Whatever other advantages we possess, we have more ‘labour’ than we had *population* a mere two centuries ago.
Taking back control. Every day brexit brings a new win.
I wish there was some country I could think of who’s main products are farming and that for some reason all its people need to leave and work somewhere else hmmmm think think think!