If Britain relied solely on British food then it wouldn't even last a year, study finds

[Soph0571]

A study has found that if Britain relied exclusively upon British made food then it would run out within the space of a year.

Research from City University’s Centre for Food Policy has found that, without imports, that the UK would struggle to last until the end of the year as the country is now heavily dependent on imported goods.

As reported by The New European, the study was flagged by the National Farmers Union on 'self-sufficiency day.'


The UK is now said to be so dependent on imported produced that consumption of British food has declined to just 64 per cent. In 1980 it was a high as 80 per cent.

47 per cent of vegetables and 93 per cent of fruit are now imported to the UK. This means that if on January 1 2021, when Brexit is fully completed, the food stocks would be empty by August 21, if the UK only ate food made in this country.

[link:https://www.indy100.com/article/britain-food-imports-brexit-farmers-union-study-9674866|]

Just when we thought nothing could beat 2020 we all get to have rations next year when the utter shit show that governs us fails to get a trade deal with the EU by the end of the year and all that lovely imported food we enjoy becomes economically unrealistic for people to purchase when we are in the deepest recession on record. Good times!

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Yikes!

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I'm surprised it was as high as 80% in 1980

We could grow more vegetables; but they'd be more expensive, since we won't have access to the cheap EU labour from Eastern Europe.