UK Govt Looks To Reduce Food Supply By Nine Percent
On January 31st, the BBC reported Labour intends to reduce farming by nine percent to help meet ‘climate’ targets
It is not a long article, so I reproduce it in full, interspersed with my own comments:
About nine percent of England’s farming land will need to be converted into forest and wild habitats by 2050 to meet the government’s net zero and nature targets.
The benchmark was set out in a consultation launched by Environment Secretary Steve Reed, external.
In total, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) predicts nearly a fifth of the UK’s agricultural land will need to change, as part of efforts to improve the eco-system.
But the department insists greater efficiencies on the remaining land could maintain UK food production at current levels.
Notice the use of the word ‘could’ rather than ‘will’.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused Labour of “adding even more burdens on farmers”.
She is absolutely right.
The Land Use Framework was due to be published in 2023 but has faced considerable delays, with the scope and focus of the promised policy changing over time.
The framework was first suggested by the 2021 Dimbleby Review, external on a National Food Strategy, to help guide farming incentives and regulations.
Would these ‘incentives’ include Boris Johnson ‘encouraging’ farmers to stop farming and sell their land for ‘other uses’?
On Friday, the government opened a consultation calling for ideas on how England should manage land use changes to balance food security, nature recovery, infrastructure needs and climate goals.
A working land-use framework would make it less likely “high-quality farmland” will be lost to housebuilding or energy projects, Defra said.
Less likely, but it will not stop it if the government decides it needs to be done to help ‘save the planet’.
About 70 percent of England’s land is used for farming.
Government analysis found 1.6 million hectares of farming land needs to be repurposed to meet its legal environmental and climate targets by 2050, including:
one percent making small changes such as planting herbs or other plants along field margins
Waste of money.
four percent incorporating more trees alongside food production
five percent repurposed mostly for environmental benefits, while still producing food
What ‘benefits’? No details are given.
nine percent removed from food production to make way for the creation of woodland and other natural habitats
The British population is increasing (although at a significantly lower rate following the introduction of certain experimental injections), which means more mouths to feed, so the answer is to reduce the food supply???
Defra say the impact of these land use changes on domestic food production will be offset by productivity improvements.
What ‘productivity improvements’? No details are given.
National Farmers Union President Tom Bradshaw welcomed the consultation, but said any future plans must have “British food at its heart”.
You would think having enough food would be a top priority, but it seems the government thinks otherwise.
“Food security is national security, we must have a land use plan in place, underpinned by sound science and evidence,” Mr Bradshaw said.
Henry Dimbleby, author of the National Food Strategy and co-founder of food chain Leon, told the BBC:
“A lot of land at the moment is very unproductive and one of the areas that is most unproductive is some of our grazing land. There’s no way that we can satisfy all the requirements that we need from our land without reducing our meat production.
Reducing meat production is one of the globalists aims, part of the agenda to stop us eating meat altogether.
Meat production is about 85 percent of our current farming use so we can afford to pull that back a bit in order to restore nature, in order to build houses, in order to get clean energy. That is not a major sacrifice.”
Reducing the food supply will increase food prices, putting even more stress on already stretched household budgets, but if you’ve got a well-paid job like Bradshaw, you don’t worry about food prices. Its the classic I’m Alright Jack.
According to 2023 Defra figures, external, the UK is 62 percent self-sufficient for food, down from a high of 78 percent in 1984.
If domestic production does decline over the next few years, England may need to import more food, increasing the UK’s exposure to global food price shocks and supply chain disruptions.
It doesn’t take a genius to realise that, and again it will increase food prices.
“England is now one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world,” the report said – with poor farming practices and climate change damaging soil and increasing water pollution.
Bullsh*t.
Under the plans woodland would cover 16.5 percent of England’s land by 2050, with an extra 500,000 hectares of new or restored “wildlife-rich habitat”.
Restoration of degraded peatlands would also help cut eight megatons of CO2 emissions annually, Defra predict.
Another collosal waste of money. We need more CO2 not less.
Ahead of the consultation, Reed said that Labour would “not dictate” what landowners should do.
I bet they will by stealth, increasing regulations so farmers are forced out of business.
He said the framework “provides information to make it less likely that land will be used for solar farms when it’s good for food production“.
I wouldn’t bet your pension on that.
“There is enough land to build the infrastructure that we need and grow the food that we need and restore nature if we do it in a rational way, based on data,” he added.
Would that be real data, or the fabricated data climate alarmist organisations produce?
His comments come after Energy Secretary Ed Miliband approved two solar farms last week, both of which are partially on agricultural land.
Told ya.
Kemi Badenoch told broadcasters on a visit to a farm in Cheshire she was “worried that we are adding even more burdens on farmers“. She argued the government were “killing farmers in our country” through the introduction of “the family farm tax, the family business tax, the rise in national insurance“.
It should be obvious by now that is the plan, to curtail farming so there is not enough food. Not enough food means people will die, which helps the globalist plan to reduced the human population by 85 percent.
“To add even more burdens saying that we are going to spend more time on net zero shows they are not serious,” Badenoch said.
Tony Juniper, Chair of Natural England, said a land use framework would help the country move beyond a “tired old binary choices, between housing and greenspace or Nature and food“.
Nature was “too often” portrayed as a “barrier to development and food security”, he added.
He is right. Remember when the Pretender of the United States said there will be food shortages? This is how thay make it happen.
See the BBC article here bbc.co.uk
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Ken Hughes
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It’s not that they are planning to starve us to death. It’s more that they know a lot of us will be dead by the time this happens so we won’t need as much farming. (Re. Deagle forecasts).
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You gonna eat that
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It’s the Kings Game. A statement that can have many meanings but it goes back to the King owning all the wildlife. Now they want to corner the market on farming? While they are out hunting and selling you their harvest for huge profit you’ll be paid a few pence to tear out beaver dams by hand so the country doesn’t flood. Maybe someday you’ll wake up and kick the monarchy to the curb and take back the country and the land. Your country has never really known freedom. The optics of elections is just a illusion.
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D3F1ANT
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They try to control food production in the US, too. It’s harder for them to do it legally, here, but they find ways to circumvent the law and the will of the people. For example…declaring a “Bird Flu Epidemic” and killing so many birds that farms failed and eggs cost more than cars. During the Biden Regime, MANY food production plants mysteriously burned to the ground. The Globalists find a way…
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Tom
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Good to know the government loves us to death.
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Craig
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“Netzero” is criminal idiocy, simply a tool to control the serfs.. er…slaves… darn it. The ‘citizens’.
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