Monday, Aug 10, 2009
Food
Telegraph: Food crisis could force wartime rations and vegetarian diet on Britons
Having worked myself up today over the dire straits of the UK, I was more than perturbed to read this. The only thing missing from this article is the idea of "money to pay for food". People won't starve in Blighty while emigration is an option.
Posted by stillthinking @ 02:32 PM (916 views) Add Comment
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1. Adskirockski said...
The article wasn't saying there was a crisis on the way, just that we have plans in place incase which is a good thing surely.
2. icarus said...
GM/Monsanto will be at the talk-table along with big Pharma. Big Pharma (it calls itself the American Meat Institute when it's selling animal drugs in the US) is into farm animal drugs in a big way to compensate for falling margins on new blockbuster human drugs. Around the world, and especially in the US, the vast majority of poultry/egg, pig and sheep farms and cattle feedlots use huge amounts of antibiotics to compensate for crowded, unsanitary and stressful conditions. This results in resistant microbes in the food - the average American child now thinks that campylobacter, listeria, salmonells and e.coli are food groups (almost). Some farmers illegally use gentamicin, an antibiotic that can cause severe hearing and kidney problems in humans, for cattle.
Will the government have the will and resources to counter the PR and 'science' that these people will hit it with? A reading of the formbook says no.
3. mountain goat said...
Forced into vegetarian diet heaven forbid!
This is not as apocalyptic as it sounds, I might have less trouble finding vegetarian things to order in restaurants.
4. martin said...
Simple solution, eat the vegetarians!
5. mrflibble said...
Less population, more land put to good use, unemployed people set on working the land instead of a TV remote, sorted.
6. icarus said...
@3 - we do eat vegetarians - we don't eat many carnivores in the west.
7. Chris said...
For goodness sake this is a pathetically poor propaganda attempt to scare people into accepting GM foods rather than ask the obvious questions such as why not put an end to Labours plans to increase the UK population to 70 million through immigration. Is this Labour killing two birds with one stone? - create housing demand to push up prices and 'justify' GM at the same time.
8. nomad said...
A lot of problems solved here. Bankers, Politicians, Immigrants. Eat 'em!
9. enuii said...
The answer is easy, people in the 1960's worked harder with the majority doing manual labour. As it says in the article the average number of calories eaten per day in the early 1960s was about 2,100, whereas the most recent figure compiled by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation is 2,800. Therefore as the country is 73 per cent self-sufficient in food production rationing may well sort out all the sofa ridden fat b-stards that this country has produced over the last 40 years!
10. shining wit said...
Simple answer to this stop exports
- 121,000 tonnes of pork
- 115,000 tonnes of chocolate
- 88,000 tonnes of cheese exported (14,000 tonnes to the French)
- 87,000 tonnes of lamb
- 81,000 tonnes of beef (69,000 tonnes chilled)
- 50,000 tonnes of crustaceans (15,000 tonnes to Spain), including 17,000 tonnes of langoustines
Source: http://www.fdf.org.uk/responses/uk_exports_2008.pdf
11. down wave said...
Most people in the UK are complacent and procrastinate, they should be able to survive on their fat reserves for a year or three. Gorden Brown has got at least a year of excess and in any event, his wife can start cooking his back-benchers, after all they have been sacrificing themselves to his and Blair's cause for more than 10 years already, so they should be proud and not mind being chillied and served up on a platter.
12. titaniccaptain said...
Funnily enough just done a video on this sort of thing.
http://www.economicvoice.com/speakers-post.php?post=258
13. enuii said...
Have you ever noticed how much prime agricultural land has been bought by the horsey set for their expensive pets!
Hopefully horse ownership may soon be a thing of the past when mortgage rates go up.
Whilst the working classes are abandoning their dogs are those with affluenza starting to abandon their nags?
14. jack c said...
enuii said "are those with affluenza starting to abandon their nags?" - well if they do there will be plentiful supply of horse meat which will temporarily avert the supposed food crisis.