“The wettest June on record, a cool July, and hail storms in August have all taken a toll on Britain’s fruit and vegetables – prompting retailers to relax their rules on the cosmetic standards for produce,” says this article by Kerry Mcdermott.
“Wonky carrots, stunted parsnips and imperfect apples will all make a return to supermarket shelves after Britain’s dismal weather conditions affected this year’s harvest.
“The National Farmers Union has said its members were already struggling to cope with below average yields this year.
“In June apple growers told how their orchards had been blighted by frost, rain and hailstorms, meaning the year’s crop would be dramatically reduced.
“Fruit farmers in the West Midlands, East Anglia, the South West and parts of the South East said they had lost as much as 65 per cent of their harvest.
“In July – traditionally peak season for potatoes – farmers reported that they had lost 40 per cent of their potato crop because of waterlogged fields.”
Remember my warning. I fear that we’ll be fighting in the streets for food long before we’re covered in ice.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192918/Poor-harvest-lets-wonky-fruit-misshapen-veg-shops.html
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Whether we, in Britain, will be allowed to sell ‘wonky’ fruit and veg will depend entirely on the European Union and if they will give us permission. You have to remember that the European Dictatorship now rules the waves and the European lands.
Coming from Kent in South East corner of UK, I can confirm that this is very much the sad reality of UK 2012. Olympics has hidden quite nicely from mainstream media.
When it comes to food it very well could be that you will eat what you can get even if the quality is less than 100%.
Here is a documentary about the little ice age and it does talk about how food production is reduced due to cold wet weather.
Little ICE Age – Big CHILL – full doc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFQHTdn8egw&feature=related
Nobody will be fighting in the streets for food. What will happen is that there will be greatly extended lines at the McDonalds drive thru and a massive amount of impatient honking cars. Dont laugh. This actually happened in Connecticut after Hurricane Gloria.
I have to laugh at the image you paint.
I was sent to New Orleans as part of Katrina relief.
One of the first sights I saw was a line of cars all washed out and laying more or less on their sides but still in line leading away from a McDonald’s drive through window. We had to check them for remains (we didn’t find any) and as I was looking through these muddy soggy wrecks I tried to imagine what was going through their owners minds as the water rose around them;”Hurry up with my big mac. Don’t worry about supersizing it I gots to go!”
Farmers markets, flea markets, boot sales, country side roads etc etc, we still shop there!.
Forgive my niavete. What is a “wonky” carrot???
A wonky carrot is one which is irregular in shape. Supermarkets seem to want only what they consider to be ‘perfect’ fruit and vegetables, i.e. what conforms to the standards they impose on farmers and growers.
The weather this year has also affected the wheat crop in the UK, especially in the east. I spoke with an old friend two days ago, whome has farmed in Lincolnshire for the last sixty years. He told me that the excess rain combined with the recent dry spell had halved the yield of this years wheat crop and what wheat they have is of poor quality. He told me this is the trend across most of the Country and with whaet prices already at a high, it will push up the price of bread, etc, beyond normal cost. It seems we have some tough times to come, sooner rather than later.
This year 2012 is the beginning of the end. We might be dead from the fighting over food, if not even dead from the lack of food, way before the snow comes down so heavy to kill everyone, thus putting a stop to our fighting one another. British tend towards orderly conduct, thus forming orderly an orderly queue for items that will be rationed. We might have to introduce rations ? If as Robert is saying, we are facing a return of Ice Age, then even rationing of supplies might not help us to survive what is coming. My theory is that the Ice Age will come in so suddenly and so heavy [probably due to super volcano] that we will be either flash frozen even indoors and or buried under deep snow. Dead is dead. We have no where to go. Europe and North America are both a death trap. Look at the geography. Can hundreds of millions of Europeans swim across the mediterranean sea into Africa ? Can hundreds of millions of North Americans including Mexicans all squeaze through Panama, crossing the Panama Canal, into South America ? No obviously we are all dead duck. Sorry to be so gloom and doom, but we do have to be realistic.
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