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I don't think there are any quotas left that apply to uk farmers at the moment. There are still import tarrif quotas which the brexit negotiators are still grapplying with. That indirectly affects uk farmers. Farmers are desperately worried about dropping quotas, it did provide some sort of stability, but it still left many farmers struggling and many have since given up. The biggest loosers ...
@Lynne If the falling value of the pound causes some food prices to increase, buy British instead.
and here's some info on UK food waste 1. six. of the 8 billion meals served each year. On average 21% of food waste arises from spoilage; 45 The amount of food that is wasted each year in the UK is equivalent to 1.3 billion meals, or one in %. from food preparation and 34% from consumer plates. Estimates of Food and Packaging Waste in the UK Grocery ... ...
Okay - so......is there any food produce in the UK that is PRESENTLY subject to quotas? If there are, please post on this thread what they are and give the source(s) of your information. And here's something else I'll throw into the mix. If the pound falls in value then the price of imports increases. And as we import an awful lot of food I can only assume that the price of all this ...
Please stop being so aggressive. Potato and milk quotas have already been covered in a previous thread.
As usual Diana Mond comes in with only part of a problem. Why are there potato quotas and milk quotas? In seems to me that we are caught between a rock and a hard place.
The topics about food, plastic and M&S are all connected by one common denominator - cost. People expect to pay next to nothing for food and therefore they get what they deserve. Poorer quality food, excessive packaging and imported indigenous foodstuff. There’s more than enough farmland in Britain for us to be self-sufficient for generations to come, sadly too many people either ...
And I wonder what happens to a lot of that imported food. Is it wasted because it has gone past it's sell by date after it was purchased by a consumer or is it never sold and had to be thrown away before it reached the shelf in the shop and who pay's for that wastage? The mind boggles.
Not an unrelated topic to that of plastic. Just thought I'd post a few things that I've recently read about UK food consumption and UK food production. 1. Since 1984 UK self sufficiency in indigenous foods has fallen from 96% to 76% 2. Imports of non-indigenous foods have grown so much that half of what is eaten in the UK now comes from abroad. 3. The UK food deficit rose by £800m ...