Can Britain feed itself?
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We'd be fine. We always have been. We always will be.
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I suppose sending all the immigrants back would ease our food demands.
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I suppose sending all the immigrants back would ease our food demands.
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Don't take a genius to realise you need less food to feed 40 million people than you do 65 million people. If the food runs out then hopefully most of them will leave of their own accord.
yep loads of land gardens etc. If everyone had to use their garden for grub the world would be a better place, no fuel used to transport the food
.it's still there just need to reopen the pits. Isn't there over 100 years worth of coal in wales alone?
Hmm - interesting. What is "the food we need" defined as though? Is it the food we consume i.e. we produce 60% of the food we consume (unlikely) or is it something else like (total world's food consumption/total world's population)*UK population?
I looked up what you were allowed to buy during WW2 rationing. It's bloody scary. 500g of meat, 100g of bacon, 1 egg, 25g of cheese (amongst other things) a week
Might be worth starting a diet if only to shrink your stomach now so you can cope if they do reintroduce rationing...
We do however have enough military strength to acquire what we need from others though, if we where ever desperate enough.
I looked up what you were allowed to buy during WW2 rationing. It's bloody scary. 500g of meat, 100g of bacon, 1 egg, 25g of cheese (amongst other things) a week
Yes but that is wartime rationing.
Well, if it came to an every-man for himself situation at this present time we wouldn't, we would most likely be those getting taken from. Also again, bringing a wartime factor into this is just meh -- I doubt the population figures would hold up when millions are being killed.
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Again, people with money will prevail. I refuse to undertake a communist regime, sharing my land and my country with all of the scum that live here and that have flooded in through our borders. In a food shortage, deport them all and then we will have a few million less to worry about. Desperate times would call for desperate measures, and I, for one would have to see communism (sharing land equally or whatever) take over when there are so many illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and benefit fraudsters and irresponsible peons who take on debts which they know they can never, ever pay back.
**** that.
**** that.
Rationing continued until 1953 - 8 years after the war ended. Post-war Britain was essentially bankrupt - we had to export as much as possible to bring cash into the economy to pay the Americans back the money they lent us. Of course, we don't have any loans to pay back now do we?
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with rationing + stopping wastage we would probably be ok.
What does that matter? This thread was "If we had to grow 100% of our own food could we provide for the current population?" -- That is very different to "If we had to grow 100% of our own food could we provide for the current population? and please factor in a world war and its effects to this!"
I really do wonder where some people get there information from... we do not produce far more than we consume. Last time I looked at the numbers we were around 60% self sufficient.
It'd be better I reckon, we'd use every part of an animal instead of just the flesh.
I'm talking the offal and blood. Good bits.
Mmm, black pudding...
And it would put loads of these fussy eaters in their place "mum i don't like healthy food"
well too bad you little **** you're eating it or I am.
And people would pick at chicken caracasses, use them for stock etc.
I'd miss coffee etc. though.
I'd survive, veg patch, get some chickens.
I like to eat lots, I could cut down if it was all rationed though obviously.
I'm talking the offal and blood. Good bits.
Mmm, black pudding...
And it would put loads of these fussy eaters in their place "mum i don't like healthy food"
well too bad you little **** you're eating it or I am.
And people would pick at chicken caracasses, use them for stock etc.
I'd miss coffee etc. though.
I'd survive, veg patch, get some chickens.
I like to eat lots, I could cut down if it was all rationed though obviously.
By whom?
With the third highest military spending in world, along with a fairly capable and mobile nuclear arsenal, we're probably capable of keeping most attackers at bay.
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doesn't the uk have a ridiculously high portion of the worlds supply of uranium as it goes? something ludicrous like 40%? Either way, we should have enough to make a pretty damned good go at building a lot of power stations.
IF we were to run out of food, take a quick vote and round up whoever gets the majority vote to be forced down the channel tunnel and let them go elsewhere and try and survive. Hopefully, unanimously, chav's would be thrown out, as they are around in such large numbers now, it would probably make all the difference.
IF we were to run out of food, take a quick vote and round up whoever gets the majority vote to be forced down the channel tunnel and let them go elsewhere and try and survive. Hopefully, unanimously, chav's would be thrown out, as they are around in such large numbers now, it would probably make all the difference.