In Sweden the anchovies are out, and that’s a staple on the julbord. Very sad.
But I think that one is due to overfishing, not supply chain. Could be wrong tho.
Unfortuantly the use of polling for this is ridiculous.
It’s been so overly politicised that everyone who hates Brexit will say there has been food shortages.
People in the EU probably think we’re all dying of starvation over here, when in fact there could be a shortage of French pate.
Struggling to find the poll in yougov website that covers all these areas.
Odd how America seems to have similar responses to the UK.
So many issues with this.
Let’s start with the obvious attempt by The Guardian to paint this as a Brexit issue (‘Food shortages hitting Britons *more than many in the EU*’), when the results of their own poll show that the situation in the US is virtually the same.
Second, from what I can tell, this isn’t a public YouGov poll, I can’t locate it anywhere on their website, so I’m going to assume that it was commissioned by The Guardian, and we therefore don’t know important details such as the sample size, the dates over which the sampling was carried out, the specific phrasing of the questions, etc… Moreover, this particular study’s finding that circa 55% of UK respondents had directly experienced food shortages is at odds with YouGovs own publicly available polling of the same issue, for which we have the December [update](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/health/survey-results/daily/2021/12/06/63158/2) which found that the number was actually 45%. Supposedly both polls were carried out earlier this month, a 10% difference between the two is significant and suggests some issues with their methodology.
Lastly, cross-jurisdictional surveys of this nature are rarely particularly insightful because of how media coverage can bias peoples perceptions. Such polling is far more informative in time series where you can judge how the situation is evolving (easing or worsening) in one particularly country, but comparing across different markets is fraught with issues.
I also note that, although its purely anecdotal, my visit to the supermarket this morning found the shelves absolutely stuffed with goods, especially Christmas produce, so I continue to question all the hysterical warnings about widespread turkey shortages that were all over the media a couple of months ago.
It’s as bullshit [as the claim that there’d be no brussel sprouts at Xmas](https://i.redd.it/sdnhhj2ldv681.jpg) because they’d be left rotting in the fields due to a lack of Eastern European workers.
Yes when you go to the shop at that particular time the specific brand of product you want may not be there but that has always happened even before we left, hell even before the EU referendum had been announced. No supermarket has 100% of what it stocks in 100% of the time.
Aldi were out of fresh prawns and only had frozen ones this morning. I wonder what’s happening this week that could have caused this sort of thing.
So bad that noone in the UK has noticed.
The guardian tells me we have no food, dose this mean my eyes are lying to when I go shop. :/
This is left wing Guardian propaganda.
There are no shortages and the UK ranks up there as one of the worlds biggest food wasters.
Check out the moutain of supermarket food that is thrown away every night.
It would be good for the west if there were a shortage of food since it may be valued more highly.
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In Sweden the anchovies are out, and that’s a staple on the julbord. Very sad.
But I think that one is due to overfishing, not supply chain. Could be wrong tho.
Unfortuantly the use of polling for this is ridiculous.
It’s been so overly politicised that everyone who hates Brexit will say there has been food shortages.
People in the EU probably think we’re all dying of starvation over here, when in fact there could be a shortage of French pate.
Struggling to find the poll in yougov website that covers all these areas.
Odd how America seems to have similar responses to the UK.
So many issues with this.
Let’s start with the obvious attempt by The Guardian to paint this as a Brexit issue (‘Food shortages hitting Britons *more than many in the EU*’), when the results of their own poll show that the situation in the US is virtually the same.
Second, from what I can tell, this isn’t a public YouGov poll, I can’t locate it anywhere on their website, so I’m going to assume that it was commissioned by The Guardian, and we therefore don’t know important details such as the sample size, the dates over which the sampling was carried out, the specific phrasing of the questions, etc… Moreover, this particular study’s finding that circa 55% of UK respondents had directly experienced food shortages is at odds with YouGovs own publicly available polling of the same issue, for which we have the December [update](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/health/survey-results/daily/2021/12/06/63158/2) which found that the number was actually 45%. Supposedly both polls were carried out earlier this month, a 10% difference between the two is significant and suggests some issues with their methodology.
Lastly, cross-jurisdictional surveys of this nature are rarely particularly insightful because of how media coverage can bias peoples perceptions. Such polling is far more informative in time series where you can judge how the situation is evolving (easing or worsening) in one particularly country, but comparing across different markets is fraught with issues.
I also note that, although its purely anecdotal, my visit to the supermarket this morning found the shelves absolutely stuffed with goods, especially Christmas produce, so I continue to question all the hysterical warnings about widespread turkey shortages that were all over the media a couple of months ago.
It’s as bullshit [as the claim that there’d be no brussel sprouts at Xmas](https://i.redd.it/sdnhhj2ldv681.jpg) because they’d be left rotting in the fields due to a lack of Eastern European workers.
Yes when you go to the shop at that particular time the specific brand of product you want may not be there but that has always happened even before we left, hell even before the EU referendum had been announced. No supermarket has 100% of what it stocks in 100% of the time.
Aldi were out of fresh prawns and only had frozen ones this morning. I wonder what’s happening this week that could have caused this sort of thing.
So bad that noone in the UK has noticed.
The guardian tells me we have no food, dose this mean my eyes are lying to when I go shop. :/
This is left wing Guardian propaganda.
There are no shortages and the UK ranks up there as one of the worlds biggest food wasters.
Check out the moutain of supermarket food that is thrown away every night.
It would be good for the west if there were a shortage of food since it may be valued more highly.
People here don’t like data, apparently.