Britons could shortly encounter shortages of tomatoes, cucumbers and pears as farmers warn that the United Kingdom is sleepwalking into a food supply crisis amid skyrocketing fuel, fertiliser and feed prices.
Ahead of an emergency press conference, the National Farmers Union (NFU) said the Government needed to step in to help primary producers under unbearable strain from growing costs, with fertiliser prices tripling since 2019 and the price of feed and diesel up by 75 per cent.
Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and the coronavirus lockdowns have pushed up the price of food, energy and fuel this year.
The NFU warned yields of energy-intensive crops like tomatoes, cucumbers and pears are likely to hit their lowest level this year since records began in 1985, while milk prices are likely to fall below the cost of production and beef farmers consider decreasing the number of cows they breed.
Union president Minette Batters informed the BBC that egg shortages driven by Britain’s worst-ever outbreak of bird flu and the culling of huge numbers of hens could just be the start.
She said that shoppers up and down the country have for decades had a guaranteed pool of high-quality affordable food produced to some of the highest animal welfare, environmental and food safety standards in the world, but that British food was under threat, at a time when global volatility was endangering the equilibrium of the world’s food production, food security and energy security, and she feared the country was sleepwalking into further food supply crisis, with the future of British fruit and vegetable supplies in jeopardy.
Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, said that retailers were used to managing pressure across their supply chains.
He told the broadcaster that supermarkets source, and would continue to source, the vast preponderance of their food from the United Kingdom and know they need to pay a sustainable price to farmers.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) insists that Britain has a heightened degree of food security which is built on supply from various sources, including robust domestic production as well as imports through steady trade avenues.
It comes after multiple supermarket colossi introduced a brief buying limit of eggs per customer as a precautionary measure amid the impact on the supply of growing prices and bird flu.
The Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) previously reported that the pace of food price inflation was expected to reach a peak year-on-year of between 17 per cent and 19 per cent in early 2023.
Sadly the Government are out to starve and control you!
And in Holland, they’re stopping farmers from producing food, and the Dutch Government are in the process of conducting mandatory purchases of farms.
Just as the EU reduced farm production in the United Kingdom, instead paying farmers not to produce.
Just like the fabricated egg situation, eggs are more affordable abroad than at home and the EU has asset stripped the United Kingdom and we’re now seeing the fruit of their labours.
This has not all happened just by chance and the objective is a one-world government where we will all be reliant upon our Government, where the masses will ultimately own nothing, but will apparently be happy.
We will have unelected bodies governing the world, the elite who have no authority controlling it all, and only the people can contain this now, and the last two to three years should have opened everyone’s eyes to see that opposition political parties have remained muted and turned a blind eye to it – they’re all together in all of this!
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