Although many farmers are red-neck rubes, food is culture.
It's part of the landscapes that poncey painters draw up; so there!
Some theatre producer from the US once said that it's becoming impossible to make a living by farming. We're getting food flown in from freaking Chile and Oz.
The UK is exporting 40 000 tons of wheat a year, and
importing 40 000 tons of wheat a year.
We subsidise our farmers for 1/3rd of their income or else they'd be broke.
Yet, we flood the markets of poor countries with our cheap food, bankrupting their farmers.
Do you know where we're going?
Rome got its potatoes from Egypt.
Athens got its corn from the Black Sea.
Rome got its potatoes from Egypt.
Athens got its corn from the Black Sea.
Ancient Rome and Athens
Just before those supply lines were cut off and they were defeated.
Just before those supply lines were cut off and they were defeated.
Here are some ideas from a cool group, translated from a Greens publication:
-stop use of agricultural products as fuel. Lessen transportation in general
-food as a right, not a product [I’m with them, to the nth degree. You can see small-scale farming is no longer viable anywhere. But the rich in Brazil can cut the rainforest, then grow and ship animal-feed to Europe. Why is this necessary? If our farmers can’t work, then we’ll get products from elsewhere, but anybody who knows Greek or Roman history knows that long supply lines create vulnerability, especially when oil becomes too expensive].
-lessen the consumption of meat
-stop affecting other agricultural markets negatively i.e. Africa. Feed our own people
-good food prices, for small farmers to survive
-a right to land use
-right to info on food products
-cut out middle-men
-teach kids about growing food
-Costick67 ~(8^P
checkitout:
www.europeanfooddeclaration.org
