Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "Riverford: UK business needs long-term policies and stability | FT Food Revolution" video.

  1. I don't think that he was that starter. I mean, farming have already existed. And many estates.. grew their own veggies, and that they sold directly to their local communities... So he isn't the first. Maybe where he lived was like that, but a lot of farmers, and people near where I grew up had always had this. Allotments, and both private and public farms.... What I can see is that, London do not have access to food, and that is why they always continued to import food, and goods. Well.... competition is extremely tough right now.... so high... When I found the word "organic" , I almost fell off my bandwagon. Cos I had always thought that "farm to table" was normal. But apparently, this is not normal.. and that it had never existed. I don't believe that it did not exist. I did exist, but the entire country was still a soveign land and soveign states.... so democracy didn't truly existed. So if elites held back their land, then they are entitled? Now, that is something which I find hard to believe. Or I have come to learn to acknowledge and to accept.
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  2. After the second world war, Japan had trouble feeding their own people, and they needed to buy from the USA, and from other countries as well. So... I had always thought that was a holding plan only. Only ever to be temporary... and not more. I find this whole thing a bit odd. Cos there isn't the really ethos of the people that desire to stay and to maintain the land. Isn't people meant to be quite nationalistic!? Even the real nationalistic people that continual to protest, DOESN'T put their actions where their mouth is !!! So you have time to protest, but you don't have the time to actually DO the work?! This is the inconsistency of the world today. In Japan, they farm their own food, their school children farms a small farm in their local community. Maybe it is time that Guy literally consider SELLING his well grown produce, and then replant them into school mini farms, and then let THEIR kids learn where veggies come from? So you don't do this box scheme thing, but you can definitely nurture a really big and well produced set of produce... and focused a lot more about maintaining the nutrients of the farm itself? One thing I will say is that, this country is so bureaucratic that is absolutely unbelievable...
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  3. Yeh, but this man needs better equipments. Labour is one thing, but still, you do need some sophisticated machines to farm with. I have seen some of the Japanese tea leaf farmers... and they do use sophisticated machines to farm with. With organic, you do need actual good nutrients to farm and nourish the soil with? We have SO many universities IN this country, so how can we not have discovered this already? We should already be applying those to ALL farms across the country too? With the fall of ICI.. what really should've been done, is to utilise some of those data and info.. to be incorporated into the British soil. Why did it get patents and privitised so much so that, this is not even here? So if those data existed, then shouldn't those be used via the public libraries and to recreate those specific natural fertilisers... and replaced and used back on these soil ??? I feel like Guy is fighting that impossible fight... And, soy sauces? Why is he selling soy sauces for???!!! Keep the good things that are available from the UK ! Use marmite !!! It's still vit B!
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  4.  @dnmurphy48  : To be fair, who does not know that Guy used to be a management consultant, and so that he knows exactly what is going on. But... What do I find annoying now?I find the current whole "food delivery app" thing extremely ignorant, AND annoying. So many of us, who were raised in take aways, and knows the supply-chain inside and outside, is still working in the food sector.. more or less... to hold the supply-chain up as well... if we don't do this... and continue the good work, then who would? I find it funny, that so many people, across the country, often poaches people like us..."I want you to be a labourer in....Spain... will you come?".... No... he said.. everybody wants to be the Chief, but nobody wants to be the Indian. Well.... My mother had her own garden as well. Even many people now have their own garden. So.. universal income it is? It probably is looking that way ! And then gazillion builders and property developers still expect that people will buy their properties. But in truth, nobody is buying it. And in Europe... soveignty is held on tight, and they do not want to give it up ! SO..... The only country that is sustainable is The Netherlands... and now, their politicians are apparently trying to screw their hard work up, for the sake of the union. Wow... I would definitely flip. I don't see the America Irish, or the America Scottish, coming back to the UK to farm and to help....
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