In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 11:05:47 UTC, charles wrote:
In article , Nightjar
cpb@ insert my surname here.me.uk wrote:
On 23/02/2015 19:44, Rod Speed wrote:
charles wrote
Nick wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Harry wouldn't work that out even if half the population of that
soggy little island got killed by it.

But don't we all agree that population reduction is the safest
way to achieve CO2 reduction.

That seems to be the Greens policy since they apparently want to
stop the import of food.

Britain actually managed to feed itself quite adequately during WW2
when food imports were drastically curtailed....

There are claims that we reduced food imports by half, but a
substantial part of that was animal feed, not human food. We simply
reduced the animal population and imported meat and animal products
instead. Meat imports increased by 20% between 1938 and 1944, while
cheese imports increased by nearly 72%. Overall, the tonnage of
human food imports dropped by about a quarter, but changes in what
we imported meant that by the end of the war the calorific value per
ton of imported human food had increased by 25%.

If you look at todays papers you will see that we only prodcue 60% of
our own food at present

We also export food, £12 billion in 2007.


does that include the prawns we ship to Thailand to be shelled and then
brought back for sale in our shops?

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