General Discussion
Seems like it isn't only me who sees a possible looming food shortage. A no-deal Brexit survival guide: what food to stockpile | Politics | The ... https://www.theguardian.com/.../a-no-deal-brexit-survival-guide-what-food-to-stockpile 5 days ago - With news that the government is planning to stock up on processed foods in case we ... A no - ...
Hasn't the US got an obesity epidemic? Might it be something to do with the food that they eat and how it is produced/what is in it? " an influx of cheaper, ultra-processed, high-sugar American foods will no doubt come with higher obesity rates" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2018/jul/12/a-no-deal-brexit-survival-guide-what-food-to-stockpile
See advert front page of today's Dawlish Gazette.
See page 27 of today's Gazette. https://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/media/7118/advert-ladys-mile.pdf
But......it is only now, post the referendum, that lots of things are coming out in the wash as it were. Not matters of opinion but of fact. Like the issues around the N.Ireland/RoI border. The 'just in time' supply chains. The customs union. The single market. If it has taken some 44 years or so to set all this type of thing up then for the life of me I do not see how it can all be undone ...
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But it will be the fresh, healthy, nutritional food that will rot not the processed stuff full of salt and sugar and hydrogenated fats. If fresh fruit and veg become scarce then the prices will rise and even more people will eat a less healthy (and fattening) diet than they do now. We are not a food self sufficient country. We cannot, even if we wanted to, produce enough fruit and veg for ...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/topstories/asda-boss-warns-over-rotting-food-at-brexit-britain%E2%80%99s-border/ar-AAzLIQu
@b.o.liking (for once) - words fail me.
I'd love to read them but I wouldn't have the time what with all the housework and child rearing and cooking and washing and goodness knows what else I'd be having to get through in any one day in 1918.
