openDemocracy · @openDemocracy
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Michelle · @ThunderHoneySnow
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The real cause of skyrocketing food prices is corporate greed and market concentration—and one group of farmers has the receipts.

The National Farmers Union (NFU) has submitted data to the House of Commons agriculture committee which details how much retail food prices have risen compared to the prices that farmers receive for their goods.

breachmedia.ca/2023-food-price

#cdnpoli #Canada #farmer #agriculture #canag #foodpolitics #retailgiants #nfu #NationalFarmersUnion #foodprices #food

Last updated 1 year ago

brewdog1950 · @brewdog1950
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@AutisticMumTo3

Are the finally waking up and joining the real world ?!?! I really hope so.

#nfu

Last updated 2 years ago

AutisticMumTo3 She/her · @AutisticMumTo3
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Fruit and vegetable shortages could be ‘tip of the iceberg’, farming union warns | The Independent



independent.co.uk/news/busines

#fruitandveg #fruitandvegshortage #nfu

Last updated 2 years ago

@FloydyStu
It's been getting worse and worse for months.
It's not all Brexit, it's the supermarket buying strategy that sources from hundreds of small suppliers who are therefore wholly dependent on the contract.
If they all simultaneously decide it's not profitable and stop production, the supermarkets aren't agile enough to deal with that.
The has been warning them for years.
They didn't listen
Grow your own. That's the solution

#nfu

Last updated 2 years ago

Nick@NorthLondon · @N12nick
142 followers · 909 posts · Server mindly.social

@FloydyStu
It's been getting worse and worse for months.
It's not all Brexit, it's the supermarket buying strategy that sources from hundreds of small suppliers who are therefore wholly dependent on the contract.
If they all simultaneously decide it's not profitable and stop production, the supermarkets aren't agile enough to deal with that.
The has been warning them for years.
They didn't listen
Grow your own. That's the solution

#nfu

Last updated 2 years ago

Rosie Walters · @sirenoftitan
323 followers · 2427 posts · Server mstdn.social
Dr Francis Sedgemore · @hesgen
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"Britain’s farmers battered by Brexit fallout and rising costs, says union"

- Department for the Elimination of Farming and Rural Affairs

theguardian.com/environment/20

#defra #farming #brexit #nfu #agriculture

Last updated 2 years ago

Vincent Bontrop 🚀 · @bontrop
15 followers · 37 posts · Server mastodon.online

Via : Integrale wetgeving nodig voor medisch wetenschappelijk onderzoek nfu.nl/actueel/integrale-wetge

#nfu

Last updated 2 years ago

EM SWSurrey · @em_swsurrey
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Hesgen · @hesgen
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president Minette Batters warns that the UK is "sleepwalking" into a food supply crisis, but not reported are the factors behind this. is an obvious one, but the crisis goes deeper than this.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/uk-

Union

#flu #bbc #national_farmers #farming #agriculture #brexit #nfu

Last updated 2 years ago

Via Campesina · @viacampesina
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Khurram Wadee ✅ · @mkwadee
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Khurram Wadee ✅ · @mkwadee
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