@LockdownLil
they can't make us do away with branding.
I am really shocked and upset at how little posters seem to know on this thread. We won't be able to label our food. Putting a union jack on it or calling it Smith's Local Beef COUNTS AS LABELLING and there will be lawsuits and firms won't be allowed to do it. Supermarkets will stock the cheapest food which will come from the US after Brexit as the European food markets will no longer be open to us in the same way. So standards will go down. Individual consumers will be able to do nothing about it and no choice will be possible especially if you are on a low income. It's really happening, people.
The lack of proper press in this country has driven us over a cliff. This is vital for us all to understand and we're like a bunch of fucking idiot lemmings unable to act in our own best interests.
This.
Already, labels can lie, because chopping up the food and packing it counts as country of origin for the label.
But the worst thing is, as
@LockdownLil says, the overseas producers have made a trade condition that origin labels on their produce are banned, for the specific purpose of preventing squeamish consumers knowing what they are buying.
Obviously, the majority of the unthinking will waddle into a fast food place or a supermarket only in search of more buckets of fodder, and prepacked ready made packs won't tell them the ghastly grisly details, even if they are sentient enough to look at labels.
It is apparently untrue that there is a shortage of food. There is a glut. More than half, worldwide, is wasted. Not by old people, and certainly not by the genuinely poor. Just everyone else. The French love quality food and import our fish and our lamb. The obese British won't eat it.
That ought to be another chance for a bit of lateral thinking and initiative and for stopping doing everything in exactly the Same Way Things Have Always Been Done. (A quasi religious practice in every aspect of British life) Don't furlough anyone. Call a spade a spade and call a jobless person jobless. Then assist them by any reasonable means to engage their time in something useful. Useful could include : Shadowing carers, assisting food producers, preparing beautiful ready meals for others to buy, with beautiful British food, picking up the filth their fellow Brits have hurled around out towns and countryside, visiting isolated people and advocating for those imprisoned in care homes, hospitals or alone in their own homes, coaching and encouraging exercise for mind and body for the ignored, such as disabled and older people
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These 'furloughed' are not missing out if they never go back to devoting their lives to encouraging drinking and gambling and non essential consumption. They won't lie on their own death beds regretting time spent time doing something valuable to the planet and to others. Nobody's dying words are " Oh, if only I had encouraged more people to die of alcoholism"