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a pint of milk at exorbitant prices


Would that be milk paid for so that the producer actually makes a profit unlike the chain stores that don't pay even what it costs to produce and thus have forced many dairy farmers out of business in the UK?


Big Supermarkets in this country supply us with rubbish meat and rubbish fruit and vegetables with no flavour and we stupidly buy them.


Give me a French supermarket anytime.

I don't know but it is probably organic milk. Don't we all subsidise french agriculture by the EU and not our own dairy farmers?

I always buy british pork products though as we rear our pigs outdoors whereas other european countries do not- especially Denmark.

The French did get farming subsidies but we get subsidies too and European development money and so. It's just the French place an importance on the quality of the food they produce whereas we don't.


The big supermarkets force farmers to grow hardy (but flavourless) varieties of crops - so they can be shipped around the world for packaging and then back to us. Strawberries are a very good example of that.


Chicken is also something that has been meesed up. We used to grow a breed that takes six months to grow. It actually had a different shape but the important thing is that it was higher in protein content than fat. Now we rear a breed that takes only 12 weeks and is more fat than protein, and then is further injected with water and colourant. It's cheaper to produce and thefore sell, but is poor quality and nutritionally not very good for you.


Supermarkets are an industry and everything about how they produce and sell food is industrial. They exist to dominate the market and make money, not to provide us with good nutrition and quality food (whilst bullying producers into non-profitability - as with milk). Bakeries, butchers, fishmongers, and markets have always been guaranteed ways of getting truly fresh food - but most have been forced out of business.

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