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https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/buying-and-supplying/categories/fresh/fruit-and-veg/three-quarters-of-fruit-and-veg-eaten-in-uk-is-imported/548771.article The article shows how much we produce, how much we export. If some of you would like to cogitate and digest what is written and who said what. Go ahead.

burneside
burneside
10 Jul 2018

"Brexitards" have a problem with the referendum result being ignored and Brexit not being delivered.  My choice of words for Remainers would be unprintable here.

leatash
leatash
10 Jul 2018

Apples can be 12 months old,Fish can be 2 years old, Bread can be 12 months old, Potatoes 12 months old, Bananas 1/2 months old, Salad, Fruit,Veg, can be 3/6 weeks old, Milk 3 weeks old do i need to go on food is no longer fresh it's treated in some cases with chlorine wash like salad and then bagged all the oxygen removed and gases added to keep it looking fresh.

I used to read the Victor when I was a kid. Happy days indeed.

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 ...

b.o.liking
b.o.liking
10 Jul 2018

it seems to me that considering half the population are obese problem solved. Jobs a goodun.

vicks
vicks
9 Jul 2018

Project Fear again. Remoaners are very quick to accuse the Leave campaign as a pack of lies...maybe so for some of it (the number on the bus (yawn), which was exposed well before the vote), but they seem to forget how the Remain campaign foretold mass unemployment, thousands of pounds drop in wages, the sky falling in and asteroids colliding with planet Earth the day after the referendum if it did ...

majorp
majorp
9 Jul 2018

Another scare mongoring article. Do you really think that we are the only ones involved in the way brexit will play out when we leave. Do you really think that businesses that are supplying us now are not having some input. Do you really think that the supermarkets are going to reorder if the first lot had to be destroyed at the border controls. And who would be affected if that did happen- the ...

Lynne
Lynne
9 Jul 2018

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
b.o.liking
9 Jul 2018

Lynne that makes a bloody change.