I coltivatori britannici di frutta e verdura avvertono che gli scaffali dei supermercati sono vuoti a causa della guerra in Iran
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fruit-vegetables-supermarket-iran-war-b2938475.html
di tylerthe-theatre
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A pointless war that hurts common people and benefits Putin: thank you IsrAmerica!
Oh, is that what we’re blaming it on *this* week?
We’ve had empty shelves and rising costs ever since the Tories started their “austerity” drive in 2010, compounded by Brexit.
Everything else has been the excuse for fucking up the economy with two utterly unforced errors. Sure, lets say the thing we’ve had for over a decade now is because of a war started a week or so ago though.
Panic buyers: Just go to the local farm shops. You will always find food there. Chickens – £29. Lettuce £1.99. Beef joint – £35. Artisan loaf – £8. Large pasta shells two tone – £17 a jar. Shelves always full.
‘Iran out of fruit and vegetables’, is all we are going to hear…….
I am sure that the wider insurance and transit costing effects on the shipping industry as a whole will increase the price of food, however i also didn’t think that either Iran or any GCC countries were known exactly for being agricultural cornucopias.
Its going to affect all domestic food production. Have been banging my head against the wall for the last 12 months with the government undermining our industry. The oil situation is going to really stretch us
No fruit or veg? Will need to buy 15 doughnuts instead.
Dena vu this from when Ukraine war started. I also remember seeing pictures of care British supermarkets but Ukraine was full of veg.
Just be another tactic to earn more money no doubt.
The government should support more small-scale organic producers. If we had more fruit and veg grown locally in market gardens, we could rely less on imports and transporting food long distances. Access to land is probably the biggest issue for people who want to do this in the UK.
Brexit hasn’t helped either. What a shitshow, but at least we’ve learned and Farage isn’t popular these days 🙄
You mean, empty shelves because of badly negotiated contracts that set a fixed price with no contingency for external cost increases. And no diversification of sales outlets (i.e. they just sell their whole crop to a supermarket, no direct sales, no sales through local shops).
This is exactly why these global conflicts feel so infuriatingly distant yet hit our own kitchens. The local farm shop is a great shout, but those prices show it’s not a realistic solution for most people.
> 70 glasshouse growers across the UK
I mean, growing in a glass house is not exactly what I would usually consider “British fruit and veg”. Does it really matter where it is grown if it is not grown outside?
Aaaaand there it is. The tabloids have reached the stage where they can no longer contain their “empty shelves” compulsion.
Oh look another case of supermarket owners causing a panic buy
I can’t believe how muted the world leaders reaction is to the US deciding to unilaterally wreck the entire worlds economy.
Maybe because the economic effects haven’t really kicked in yet but if I was Starmer I’d literally be phoning him every single day and just screaming down the phone at him.
How do articles like this help except cause panic buying