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Countryfile is not really a farming program, although there is that nice ginger farmer on it a lot.
Real farmers are not very environmentally aware, they will leave set-aside and conservation strips if and when they are paid to do so by the EU (or HMG in future) their focus is on providing cheap food either direct to supermarkets or in the form of feed wheat to (other) cattle farmers.
If the housewife wants cheap grub (and they do) then the farmers can provide, but it comes at an environmental cost. Food cost as a percentage of income is a fraction of what it was 40 years ago. Food is cheap, cheap, cheap!
You pays your money etc..
BTW anyone ever bought a roasting chicken in France? Easily double the money if not more - ask yourself why? ____________________ Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750
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| A100man wrote: | BTW anyone ever bought a roasting chicken in France? Easily double the money if not more - ask yourself why? |
A basic chicken in Sainsburys comes in 3 different sizes, and you can pay perhaps £3.80 for a large one. Apparently a basic chicken is labelled differently for the different supermarkets in which it's sold, but it's all from the same industrial farming supply houses. What confuses me is there are so many other types of chicken in the same shop. You can pay £16 or £17 for a different type of chicken ("organic") in Sainsburys. A lot of shelf space is devoted to all sorts of chicken types, and most of it's for the expensive ones. Therefore, people must be buying them (not me). I don't really trust the chicken we get here, so I only eat it on a rare occasion. The cheap ones have white flesh. Obviously, nothing natural about it, so I keep my consumption down to a rare occasion.
I have watched Countryfile recently, and my impression is that it doesn't reflect how things actually are, out in the countryside and on the farms. It seems obvious that actual country people wouldn't watch a programme like Countryfile, so who's watching it? Townspeople, I would assume. What does it show? Not much - just a lot of commentary, some seemingly idyllic scenes, and lots and lots of talk. They will interview so-and-so who says that it's so important to preserve a certain species of moth found only in a remote corner off the coast of Wales. It's so important, that it's vitally important that riff-raff be not permitted to enter the area. If you are a riff-raff, write to the government right now to make sure it's fenced off forevermore, and the public loses its right of way over it. The worst of all possible outcomes is that riff-raff from the towns should come along and visit....
Just seems to be a persistent metanarrative in Countryfile. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 23 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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