Re: Changes to UK Farming Subsidies as we leave EU!
Originally Posted by
Bread
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All my friends who are farmers can't wait to get out the EU. Unless of course they are rich landowners on the EU gravy train, getting free money for laying their land fallow and not doing anything.
If you want riots, go to Paris in a few months when the reality of the CAP kicks in, with the UK leaving the single market and buying products from elsewhere, including fits own domestic farming industry.
A few of my friends are chuffed, saying it will benefit them and their plans for the future that had been so difficult under CAP.
Before this, going organic was a big hurdle but the public are increasingly wanting organic and better-quality more ethical produce of all sorts than supermarket mass-produced stuff - and it's the big guys who generally produce this supermarket stuff that will suffer.
In 2017 the UK had something like 800 livestock megafarms where animals are reared according to rules & regulations BUT it's not an ideal way to raise a cow, or a pig, or a chicken.
No wonder the meat is bland; cheap and bland.
Just one example from many:
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https://theflexitarian.co.uk/2019/12...factory-farms/
Dyson won't be pleased, & he owns some huge bits of land here in Lincolnshire which help to make him the UK's biggest farmer.
But there's the royals and huge landowners like the Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Lonsdale too that I'm pretty sure will not be pleased.
Shame, eh?
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I'm not some liberal snowflake screaming for change, but I do believe that it is important that people know where their food comes from and how it is produced so that they can make an informed choice.
As it stands, people buy (just for example) Red Tractor labelled pork chops from wherever and think that they are buying a more ethically-produced product when in fact they are not.
Such schemes are deliberately misleading, and I for one hope the changes will evolve to include stopping such practices.
I will get down from this perch now.