UK rationing vegetables
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Britain is rationing vegetables. What’s driving the great produce shortage?
The answers involve the weather, Brexit and the war in Ukraine.
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A lot of it also has to do with some very strange red tape. Seriously, watch Clarkson’s Farm.
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My understanding is that the main reasons are European drought and disease and domestic fuel prices.
I haven't watched this season of Clarkson yet, but I don't suppose there's any more red tape than normal - i.e. there's lots, but there's always lots.
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My understanding is that the main reasons are European drought and disease and domestic fuel prices.
I haven't watched this season of Clarkson yet, but I don't suppose there's any more red tape than normal - i.e. there's lots, but there's always lots.
@Doctor-Phibes said in UK rationing vegetables:
My understanding is that the main reasons are European drought and disease and domestic fuel prices.
I haven't watched this season of Clarkson yet, but I don't suppose there's any more red tape than normal - i.e. there's lots, but there's always lots.
From watching the show, I gathered that the loss of the EU subsidies combined with the much lower cost for EU vegetables compared with the high cost of production in the UK (due to the red tape) has forced the UK farmers into different crops. Then the drought and disease in the EU hit and there’s no domestic production to pick up the slack.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in UK rationing vegetables:
My understanding is that the main reasons are European drought and disease and domestic fuel prices.
I haven't watched this season of Clarkson yet, but I don't suppose there's any more red tape than normal - i.e. there's lots, but there's always lots.
From watching the show, I gathered that the loss of the EU subsidies combined with the much lower cost for EU vegetables compared with the high cost of production in the UK (due to the red tape) has forced the UK farmers into different crops. Then the drought and disease in the EU hit and there’s no domestic production to pick up the slack.
@LuFins-Dad said in UK rationing vegetables:
@Doctor-Phibes said in UK rationing vegetables:
My understanding is that the main reasons are European drought and disease and domestic fuel prices.
I haven't watched this season of Clarkson yet, but I don't suppose there's any more red tape than normal - i.e. there's lots, but there's always lots.
From watching the show, I gathered that the loss of the EU subsidies combined with the much lower cost for EU vegetables compared with the high cost of production in the UK (due to the red tape) has forced the UK farmers into different crops. Then the drought and disease in the EU hit and there’s no domestic production to pick up the slack.
They told me that Brexit was going to make everything better.
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@LuFins-Dad said in UK rationing vegetables:
@Doctor-Phibes said in UK rationing vegetables:
My understanding is that the main reasons are European drought and disease and domestic fuel prices.
I haven't watched this season of Clarkson yet, but I don't suppose there's any more red tape than normal - i.e. there's lots, but there's always lots.
From watching the show, I gathered that the loss of the EU subsidies combined with the much lower cost for EU vegetables compared with the high cost of production in the UK (due to the red tape) has forced the UK farmers into different crops. Then the drought and disease in the EU hit and there’s no domestic production to pick up the slack.
They told me that Brexit was going to make everything better.
@Doctor-Phibes said in UK rationing vegetables:
@LuFins-Dad said in UK rationing vegetables:
@Doctor-Phibes said in UK rationing vegetables:
My understanding is that the main reasons are European drought and disease and domestic fuel prices.
I haven't watched this season of Clarkson yet, but I don't suppose there's any more red tape than normal - i.e. there's lots, but there's always lots.
From watching the show, I gathered that the loss of the EU subsidies combined with the much lower cost for EU vegetables compared with the high cost of production in the UK (due to the red tape) has forced the UK farmers into different crops. Then the drought and disease in the EU hit and there’s no domestic production to pick up the slack.
They told me that Brexit was going to make everything better.
It would be, at least in agriculture, if the Brits would get some of their idiotic laws out of the way.
Clarkson highlights something that's currently happening in the U,S, - the small farmer is getting killed. In GB, it's cheap EU produce. In America, it's factory farming.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in UK rationing vegetables:
@LuFins-Dad said in UK rationing vegetables:
@Doctor-Phibes said in UK rationing vegetables:
My understanding is that the main reasons are European drought and disease and domestic fuel prices.
I haven't watched this season of Clarkson yet, but I don't suppose there's any more red tape than normal - i.e. there's lots, but there's always lots.
From watching the show, I gathered that the loss of the EU subsidies combined with the much lower cost for EU vegetables compared with the high cost of production in the UK (due to the red tape) has forced the UK farmers into different crops. Then the drought and disease in the EU hit and there’s no domestic production to pick up the slack.
They told me that Brexit was going to make everything better.
It would be, at least in agriculture, if the Brits would get some of their idiotic laws out of the way.
Clarkson highlights something that's currently happening in the U,S, - the small farmer is getting killed. In GB, it's cheap EU produce. In America, it's factory farming.
@Jolly said in UK rationing vegetables:
@Doctor-Phibes said in UK rationing vegetables:
@LuFins-Dad said in UK rationing vegetables:
@Doctor-Phibes said in UK rationing vegetables:
My understanding is that the main reasons are European drought and disease and domestic fuel prices.
I haven't watched this season of Clarkson yet, but I don't suppose there's any more red tape than normal - i.e. there's lots, but there's always lots.
From watching the show, I gathered that the loss of the EU subsidies combined with the much lower cost for EU vegetables compared with the high cost of production in the UK (due to the red tape) has forced the UK farmers into different crops. Then the drought and disease in the EU hit and there’s no domestic production to pick up the slack.
They told me that Brexit was going to make everything better.
It would be, at least in agriculture, if the Brits would get some of their idiotic laws out of the way.
Clarkson highlights something that's currently happening in the U,S, - the small farmer is getting killed. In GB, it's cheap EU produce. In America, it's factory farming.
They told me that getting away from the Euro bureaucrats would mean the British could finally govern themselves.
Apparently the Euro bureaucrats were doing a better job.
