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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
@Picklebobble2 Bingo, glad someone said it before me
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@Jackaloftheazuresand Farms used to be small and feed the community. NOW they're big industrial concerns.
Milk used to be collected by Churns. Now you need massive tanks to store it in !
Local folk used to source fish from independent trawlermen.
NOW huge companies like Birds Eye/Youngs/etc demand a range of fish that they then process into a thousand different varieties of the same thing !
And because of the rise of the supermarket and their buying power, choice is limited and expensive.
Milk used to be collected by Churns. Now you need massive tanks to store it in !
Local folk used to source fish from independent trawlermen.
NOW huge companies like Birds Eye/Youngs/etc demand a range of fish that they then process into a thousand different varieties of the same thing !
And because of the rise of the supermarket and their buying power, choice is limited and expensive.
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
@Picklebobble2 I heard that some growers are paid by the US government to not grow as many crops as they can.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@Jackaloftheazuresand Thus ensuring the price of wheat or Barley or Corn is artificially high !
Which is all well and good until you get the situation we had in Britain a couple of years ago where the weather was SO bad, for SO long, yield was down by something like 60% !!!!
Suddenly Spring Greens or Lettuces are being sold at £1+ where the normal price would be around a third of that !!!
Which is all well and good until you get the situation we had in Britain a couple of years ago where the weather was SO bad, for SO long, yield was down by something like 60% !!!!
Suddenly Spring Greens or Lettuces are being sold at £1+ where the normal price would be around a third of that !!!