Re: Would you leave Britain if you could afford to?


"MM" <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:16:50 +0100, Norman Wells
<norman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <mefb73prkm9tc1b3cj9v7lns5bi356bl00@xxxxxxx>, Alex Heney
<me8@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:25:22 GMT, "Alan Holmes"
<alan_holmes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And be able to buy food which is not smothered in chemicals.

That is perfectly possible, just more expensive.

And with a total disregard of the fact that non-chemical organic
production is by nature far less efficient, requiring at least 50% more
land to produce the same quantity of food.

Where exactly is that extra land to come from in a world of
ever-increasing population?

Oh, not that old bollocks again, puhleeze! Farmers today are being
paid NOT to grow stuff! The land is there.

MM

should sweet shops be paid "not" to sell sweets, bakers "not" to sell bread
Etc Etc why farmers get it escapes me, any other business just takes their
own chances if they cant sell their goods they go under but not farmers
bloody amazing


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