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pronto_tonto t1_jdr0u7d wrote

Reply to comment by dr3adlock in West Yorkshire 🇬🇧 2096x4096 [OC] by PresuminEd74

... because the supermarkets and therefore presumably the public refuse to pay a reasonable price which would permit farmer's to maintain smaller field sizes, otherwise they can't compete with the prairie farmers of Canada or Australia. British food prices are amongst the lowest in the developed world but if you want to maintain a thriving ecosystem you have to be willing to pay more for your food.

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PickleFlaps t1_jdr63pz wrote

The British landscape has been largely man made for a couple of millennia.

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Forgotten_Son t1_jdr99z6 wrote

Yeah, I think there are now more woods in the UK now than there were 1000 years ago.

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lolwutpear t1_jdra2sc wrote

We shouldn't just compare ourselves to the nadir. If you lose 99% of something, then increase by 500%, you're still at 5%.

Keep up the progress!

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BarrySh1tpeas t1_jdrmpx1 wrote

Yeah! The English poors needs to pay their damn way in a capitalist society designed to keep them poor! How dare they not spend most of their poverty wage on sustenance?

Oh no wait no hang we already are…

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ecuinir t1_jdurrl3 wrote

The cost of food is not the issue - it’s just that food is bought after most other things. Food in the UK has long been cheap relative to almost all of Europe - even most of those countries that produce enough to be self-sufficient.

The cost of housing is absurd (whether rent/mortgage) and is the only real driver of poverty in the UK. Even ‘fuel poverty’ at the moment is a bit of a nonsense - people are only struggling with the cost of fuel (directly or indirectly) because their rent/mortgage is too high a proportion of their income.

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