by Julian Rose, Activist Post:
After three months of relentless rain from March to the end of May 2024 covering much of the productive land in the UK, farmers found themselves months behind getting their spring crops in the soil.
Many of these farms are already suffering a dangerous nutrient deficit; soils depleted after four to five decades of agrichemically dependent monocultural mining operations that have reduced the top six inches of soils – normally alive with microscopic insects and worms – to little more than dead matter entirely dependent on synthetic nitrate fertilisers and toxic pesticides to grow anything other than weeds.
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But these chemical inputs are becoming increasingly expensive and coupled with yields that are no longer sufficient to bring in profits, a large proportion of commercial UK arable farmers are on the edge of bankruptcy.
Government subsidies have kept them afloat up till now, but that is changing. Now the payment emphasis is on ‘increasing biodiversity’ by introducing nature friendly schemes on farms largely devoid of such features.
A good thing, you might say, but land taken out of food production means more food has to be imported from somewhere else in the world.
A food security issue is looming. ‘Food security’ means following an agricultural policy which ensures that a nation state is broadly capable of feeding its own people.
The UK was running at 60% self-sufficiency home production figure for most of the past two to three decades. It dropped to around 45% five years ago and this year (2024) that figure has fallen to just 32%.
The implications of this are serious indeed. A leading world nation state relying on close to a 70% import position in order to feed a population of some sixty million is a massive no, no.
Add to this some six decades of government backed agribusiness land management policies based on pharmaceutical inputs replacing soil nourishing crop rotations, farm yard manures and diverse mixed cropping regimes – and a huge crisis looms just around the corner.
The foods that appear in the nation’s supermarkets and hypermarkets all come from soil deficient practices, whether home produced or imported. Many also come from hydroponic systems that drip soluble nutrients into vast water containers in which the plants are grown. No soil involved at all.
The modern consumer is therefore ingesting – and attempting to digest – a toxic, vitamin depleted and largely lifeless diet, thus storing up a dangerous cocktail of health problems both now and for the future.
The red lights should be flashing for all those dependent upon such a disastrous food and farming policy to continue to feed themselves and their families.
Denatured, depleted and highly processed foods have become the daily norm for the great majority of convenience corrupted consumers of the British Isles and for much of the post-industrial modern world. A regime which has also deeply infiltrated Southern hemisphere countries, undermining their traditional diets and ways of life.
But it’s not just poor-quality vitamin-deficient foods that are degrading the health and welfare of consumers. Due to various purposefully inflated international conflicts and politically motivated power play using the fake green ‘zero carbon’ agenda to divert resources away from agricultural production, major supermarket chains such as Tesco now hold 60% less reserve food in their systems than they did five years ago.
This translates into no more than a week or two of available food, should a crisis cause supplies to dry up.
You can plainly see the tightening squeeze that both farmers and consumers are facing. Any existing ‘comfort zone’ is rapidly eroding, like the soil on the increasingly barren arable fields.
There is very little time left to act in order to avert a full-scale food/farming crisis. As a British farmer put it recently “Is the government going to change the agenda or let us starve?”
