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War, farming and food supply

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Lifeinthepit · 14/09/2025 10:43

With the recent incursions by Russia into NATO territory, it got me thinking about the increased danger of war. Bearing in mind we have nearly 70 million people squashed onto this island that's a lot of mouths to feed if the food supply lines are broken (which presumably would be a priority target by any enemy).

With that clear danger in mind, I wonder how the government is encouraging and supporting our farmers and what measures they are taking to ensure that farmers continue to farm the land to produce our food. And also how they are making sure there is enough proper farmland available (and not built on or sold to Blackrock to be covered in solar panels) to potentially support 70 million hungry people.

AIBU to think that the Government are doing the opposite of making sure our food supply will be secure in the time of any war.

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Lifeinthepit · 29/09/2025 14:06

MrsValentine24 · 29/09/2025 13:16

There’s no guarantee your freezer would even be working in the event of a war, there could be power cuts or you could be bombed out/displaced. It would also be unlikely to remain filled for the duration of a war. Probably you’d exhaust your supply before the country really started to feel the pinch. Remember in WW2 the list of rationed items grew as the war dragged on, and continued long after the war ended.

So I would go ahead and process the free food you have growing if I were you! I’m not sure I see the logic in allowing good free food to rot on the grass and then going on to complain about food instability and being unable to feed ourselves. I’m presuming what your husband wants to rush out and fill the freezer with is meat, probably some of which will be imported.

It was so long ago that I started this thread that I couldn't work out what you were on about for a moment there...😆. The apple point was just an aside really.

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SerendipityJane · 29/09/2025 14:55

Why am I being called a prepper out of interest?

It's not all about you.

EasternStandard · 29/09/2025 16:40

SerendipityJane · 29/09/2025 14:55

Why am I being called a prepper out of interest?

It's not all about you.

Did you mean the op?

SerendipityJane · 29/09/2025 17:54

EasternStandard · 29/09/2025 16:40

Did you mean the op?

I meant what I said.

Lifeinthepit · 29/09/2025 22:39

SerendipityJane · 29/09/2025 17:54

I meant what I said.

Mysterious...

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FlyingUnicornWings · 30/09/2025 10:18

Lifeinthepit · 29/09/2025 14:04

Why am I being called a prepper out of interest?

Anyway beef prices are about to go through the roof so it's probably a good idea to chuck out the apples and fill the freezer with beef everyone!

They’re already through the roof. I almost passed out in Lidl the other day when buying a 750g pack of diced steak for a stew.

Won’t be long before we’re back on Pottage. (Joking, or at least hoping I am!)

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