Posted on 06/11/2022 7:15:40 PM PDT by blam
The British government is launching a ‘Grow for Britain’ initiative to try and boost domestic food production, a leaked document has revealed.
Seen by The Telegraph, a notionally right-leaning newspaper close to Britain’s governing Conservative Party, warns that “the cost of food has real consequences for people across the country” and that members of the Boris Johnson administration are going to be working “to address poverty in the round as we learn to live with recent events and manage the impact of cost of living pressures”.
The food strategy — the first developed by a British government in 75 years, according to The Telegraph — is being developed “at a time of significant increases in food prices, largely as a result of energy prices and exacerbated by events in Ukraine, which is very challenging for people across the country,” the document states.
“We are engaging closely with the food industry to understand price impacts and any mitigating measures.”
Measures under consideration include — perhaps unsurprisingly for a government which promised to reduce immigration but has helped it to pass over one million a year — expanding seasonal migrant visas to include poultry workers and amending planning rules to make converting land for agricultural use simpler.
Inflation Crisis: People Facing ‘Real Food Poverty for the First Time in a Generation’ – Supermarket Bosshttps://t.co/IZHyiwUb7u
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 11, 2022
More controversially, the plan will reportedly include requiring government-funded institutions such as requiring National Health Service (NHS) hospitals, state schools, and prisons to provide a vegan option on their menus — with the logic perhaps being that this will increase demand for local fruit and vegetables.
The strategy also suggests that “a new generation of sustainable and efficient greenhouses” can provide British farmers with “opportunities to reduce our reliance...
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It is a wise strategy at anytime, but especially now when the globalist bass turds are buying up farmland and putting food processing plants out of business.
Looks like an old time Soviet poster
The subcontinent that literally created humanity is dying a slow and agonizing death.
1940
It's to late...there's no way back.
I would be growing for my family & friends, not my country...my taxes already fund many freeloaders.
If there was some real, actual emergency except for you grey-haired old '60s and '70s "activist" people and your indoctrinated children and grandchildren trying to mess with our lives to make your antiquated, half-century-old "agenda" finally come true before you croak, we might give a crap about it.
As it is, just be happy you got an American "president" elected who is just as demented as you are.
Sincerely,
Everyone Else in the World
Why am I immediately reminded of the “free milk/cow” adage?
That’s what it was, if you stop and think about it. Britain still lost the war, in a lot of ways.
I saw a picture once of the British wartime food ration - some bacon, sugar, tea, a few pats of butter, an egg, etc. I thought it looked a little light, not too bad.
Then I read the caption - it was the food ration for a week! Britain didn’t end food rationing till 1954 - almost 10 years after the war was over.
To their credit, that was only the food that was rationed. Other foods had no purchase limits. It’s not like that’s all they had to eat for a week.
This crisis, like so many, is the deliberate result of the policies of successive governments here for the last seventy years. The country can’t produce enough food to feed itself, today not much more than 40% of that needed, yet the population increases exponentially through immigration (legal and illegal).
After the Second World War, rationing didn’t end in Britain till 1954, but in Western Germany it was 1950!
Not many folks realise that when Wuhan-Flu struck, Macron considered closing the Channel Tunnel link. If he had done so, then Britain would have been back on food rationing within days.
Gotta feed the invaders.
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