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Is the government trying to kill our farming industry?

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flashbac · 23/05/2021 12:49

It seems the government are trying to kill our farming industry. Australia trade deal means flooding our market with cheap (low quality) hormone-fed beef raised on super farms. Zero quotas and zero tariff. We seemingly don't get anything in return.
The government are also consulting on exit payments (of OUR money btw) for farmers to leave the business. They says it's to encourage younger people to go into farming (yeah right).

What the hell is going on?

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yeOldeTrout · 23/05/2021 17:50

Australian beef is currently much more expensive than UK beef. How is more expensive Australian beef going to flood UK markets?

Is the government trying to kill our farming industry?
Is the government trying to kill our farming industry?
Bluethrough · 23/05/2021 17:58

Australian beef is currently much more expensive than UK beef. How is more expensive Australian beef going to flood UK markets?

Because our production based subsidy is going, so our produce will rise in price, to offset this, the Government needs to get cheaper food into the UK or people will complain and of course inflation will go up too.

For this reason, we wont have any on going quota either, maybe some for a period of time.

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