Deja Vu All Over Again

[rjwjr]

Food Labeling 'To Lead Farming Revolution'

Britain’s food labeling law provides details about carbon emissions and animals welfare, information that is expected to bring change to farming and retail practices.

My prediction of Britain's future based on the headline above...

1] British farmers, burdened by the new labeling requirements, pass along their increased expenses in the form of price increases.

2] British citizens start to buy more non-British grown/raised foods.

3] Farmers (like corporations in the U.S.) are chastised for shipping all the good farming jobs overseas.

4] The British government (the initial cause of the entire mess) steps-in with subsidies, penalties, laws, tax incentives, debates, panels, studies, investigations, and tons of other wasteful activities in an effort to "fix" the problem that has been wrongly blamed on British farmers.

It has happened with U.S. manufacturers and industry, it will happen with British farmers. And now that total governmental employment in the U.S. has surpassed that of employment in the real economy, we may have reached the tipping point of no return. As I think of our current situation, this image comes to mind...

[GRG55]

Re: Deja Vu All Over Again

Food Labeling 'To Lead Farming Revolution'

Britain’s food labeling law provides details about carbon emissions and animals welfare, information that is expected to bring change to farming and retail practices.

My prediction of Britain's future based on the headline above...

1] British farmers, burdened by the new labeling requirements, pass along their increased expenses in the form of price increases.

2] British citizens start to buy more non-British grown/raised foods.

3] Farmers (like corporations in the U.S.) are chastised for shipping all the good farming jobs overseas.

4] The British government (the initial cause of the entire mess) steps-in with subsidies, penalties, laws, tax incentives, debates, panels, studies, investigations, and tons of other wasteful activities in an effort to "fix" the problem that has been wrongly blamed on British farmers.

It has happened with U.S. manufacturers and industry, it will happen with British farmers. And now that total governmental employment in the U.S. has surpassed that of employment in the real economy, we may have reached the tipping point of no return. As I think of our current situation, this image comes to mind...

My wife has cousins that run a farm in Devonshire. Every time we visited with them [when we were living in London a few years ago] I would marvel at the incredible regulatory burden they work under compared to Canada. I came to the conclusion that it was simply a consequence of a much older country with much more time for the politicians and regulators to keep coming up with more and more new rules to "solve" each new problem presented to them by an increasingly non-thinking and totally risk-adverse public.

One other thing I noted in my train trips around southern England...without exception, no matter what the season, there seemed to be an incredible amount of unused rural agricultural land. Not a crop planted nor an animal to be seen grazing on field after field, mile after mile, as I was admiring the admittedly gorgeous English countryside from the train window.

I have no idea why that is the case, but suspect that EU Common Agricultural Policy rules may have something to do with this? Has anybody else noticed what I saw, and does anybody out there know why it's the case?

[cmalbatros]

Re: Deja Vu All Over Again

"...without exception, no matter what the season, there seemed to be an incredible amount of unused rural agricultural land. Not a crop planted nor an animal to be seen grazing on field after field, mile after mile,"
EU will pay farmers a subsidy for allowing land to go fallow , big money for big farms.

[bcassill]

Re: Deja Vu All Over Again

Food Labeling 'To Lead Farming Revolution'

Britain’s food labeling law provides details about carbon emissions and animals welfare, information that is expected to bring change to farming and retail practices.

My prediction of Britain's future based on the headline above...

1] British farmers, burdened by the new labeling requirements, pass along their increased expenses in the form of price increases.

2] British citizens start to buy more non-British grown/raised foods.

3] Farmers (like corporations in the U.S.) are chastised for shipping all the good farming jobs overseas.

4] The British government (the initial cause of the entire mess) steps-in with subsidies, penalties, laws, tax incentives, debates, panels, studies, investigations, and tons of other wasteful activities in an effort to "fix" the problem that has been wrongly blamed on British farmers.

It has happened with U.S. manufacturers and industry, it will happen with British farmers. And now that total governmental employment in the U.S. has surpassed that of employment in the real economy, we may have reached the tipping point of no return. As I think of our current situation, this image comes to mind...

With the offshoring of manufacturing, all the greenies out there can feel smug in the knowledge that the pollution associated with actually making things other than worthless paper instruments is now someone else's problem.

Now they are moving to get rid of the only pollutant left:

[media][/media]
Yes, folks. It's cow farts. And when the masses are safely living in grass huts and riding bicycles again, the wealthy greenies from Wall Street and CA may once again feel safe to emerge from their gated communities to toss the odd coconut to a member of the impoverished masses while telling themselves what good humanitarians they are. Of course, as the country sinks further and further into decay, the greenies will move onto greener pastures (no pun intended) because no one in their right mind will want to live in a God forsaken hell hole like the United States.

Will someone please stand up and save us from these people before it is too late? :eek:

[bcassill]

Re: Deja Vu All Over Again

Here's another one. From an interview with a 70 year old Oregon farmer.

[chr5648]

Re: Deja Vu All Over Again

Food Labeling 'To Lead Farming Revolution'

Britain’s food labeling law provides details about carbon emissions and animals welfare, information that is expected to bring change to farming and retail practices.

My prediction of Britain's future based on the headline above...

1] British farmers, burdened by the new labeling requirements, pass along their increased expenses in the form of price increases.

2] British citizens start to buy more non-British grown/raised foods.

3] Farmers (like corporations in the U.S.) are chastised for shipping all the good farming jobs overseas.

4] The British government (the initial cause of the entire mess) steps-in with subsidies, penalties, laws, tax incentives, debates, panels, studies, investigations, and tons of other wasteful activities in an effort to "fix" the problem that has been wrongly blamed on British farmers.

It has happened with U.S. manufacturers and industry, it will happen with British farmers. And now that total governmental employment in the U.S. has surpassed that of employment in the real economy, we may have reached the tipping point of no return. As I think of our current situation, this image comes to mind...

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