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UK Begins Rationing Vegetables To “Normalize” Food Shortages
SHTFplan ^ | March 1, 2023 | Mac Slavo

Posted on 03/01/2023 1:58:54 PM PST by Golden Eagle

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1 posted on 03/01/2023 1:58:54 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Rationing = Normalization

#UpIsDown

#Orwellian


2 posted on 03/01/2023 2:07:18 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Golden Eagle
It's a case of farmers in the main part of the European Union NOT wanting to deal with the expense of the additional bureaucracy of the UK itself. We haven't heard of any significant shortages of fresh fruit and vegetables on the Continent itself.
3 posted on 03/01/2023 2:14:01 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Golden Eagle

This is climate change at work. Shortages and outrageous prices everywhere.


4 posted on 03/01/2023 2:16:39 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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UK Begins Rationing Vegetables To “Normalize” Food Shortages

This is a flashback to the 1980s and I'm reading about the Soviet Union again.

5 posted on 03/01/2023 2:20:58 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Golden Eagle

The government pushed and pushed practically a vegan life style eat more fruit and veg 7 a day 9 a day but — they put crap trade policies in place to make it more expensive and unavailable.

They are from the government and they are here to help.

Just let the market work. Get out of the way.


6 posted on 03/01/2023 2:22:36 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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No problem, order now
7 posted on 03/01/2023 3:02:07 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Golden Eagle

Reports are floating around the gardening and frugal-living forums, of gardeners being offered £10 ($12) for a single frozen tomato, and stores charging £73/kilo ($41.36/pound) for fresh cherry tomatoes.

All I can say is I hope we see a lot more people gardening after this!


8 posted on 03/01/2023 3:09:34 PM PST by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: Sacajaweau
"Shortages and outrageous prices everywhere.

Today, on QVC, they were trying to sell “twelve four ounce waffles” for just over $56.00... :)

9 posted on 03/01/2023 3:14:18 PM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: Golden Eagle
This is not "rationing". This is stores dealing with a supply shortage in a way that ticks off the fewest customers possible.

Allow me to elucidate.

You have a limited amount of something to sell. It is a common item with normal demand.

You have three options.

1.) You can jack up the price. This is a stupid option because it will annoy your customers. It will also bring the media and the government down on you. You will go out of business.

2.) Sell what you have at the normal price with no limits. This is also a stupid option. Because the first few minutes you are open you are going to have a few people come in an buy out your entire stock. They will then sell it at a higher price in some other location. You will have to tell your customers you do not have the product. They will shop elsewhere. For everything. You will be out of business.

3.) You can sell at the normal price but put a per customer limit. This is the least stupid option. Your customers will find this mildly annoying but not enough to change their buying habits. You stay in business.

Rationing is imposed by a government and means you are limited to a certain number of items no matter where you shop or how often you shop.

This is not the case here. You can buy your two tomatoes and your kids can buy two tomatoes or you can buy your two tomatoes hand them to your kid to hold and go back and buy two more tomatoes or a half dozen other ways to get around the limits. And some people will do this and they will not be arrested or anything.

10 posted on 03/01/2023 3:22:56 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Golden Eagle

The cost of producing, harvesting, and transporting all crops has spiked because the cost of oil and gas was deliberately inflated.

Thanks to Biden and the green cult dream of a utopia Biden has caused a world problem with his foolish no oil scream dream.

It’s going to get a lot worse until the 2024 election buckle up stock up stay armed and alert.


11 posted on 03/01/2023 3:25:23 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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My main inputs are up an average of 70% - that’s including gas, fuel for tractors and greenhouse heat, soil, plastic mulch and labor...not sure what this year will look like and it also seems we won’t have a peach crop, so that’s more good news.


12 posted on 03/01/2023 3:46:17 PM PST by small farm girl (....)
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Most vegetables rot and are thrown away before being sold.

I changed my strategy on shopping. I buy only vegetables I can ferment in canning jars. Easier portion control. Zero waste. Buy what's on sale or plentiful in season. I even put my apple peels, potato peels, carrots peels, beet tops, etc...into a canning jar to ferment with garlic, hot pepper, and herbs. (American Kim-Chee)

13 posted on 03/01/2023 3:47:34 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: Golden Eagle

Worldwide cutting food supplies,
nothing to see here.

-fJRoberts-


14 posted on 03/01/2023 3:47:42 PM PST by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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So you only eat fermented vegetables? At home at least/


15 posted on 03/01/2023 4:25:05 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: Golden Eagle

Boomers remember pictures of the Soviet people waiting all day standing in long lines to be allowed their family’s rations of food including rutabaga and other staples.

As kids and adolescents we were thankful to live in America.


16 posted on 03/01/2023 5:25:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: dennisw
Correct. That's how the Asians maintain vegetables year round. When I lived in Kyoto back in the 80's restaurants would have "pickles" on the menu. "Pickles" just meant whatever vegetable matter was coming on your plate. Chopped up corn stalks, cabbage, carrots, beet, radish, greens, etc....all fermented naturally in a 2% salt brine.

It's really the best way to complete meals, store vegetables, and have zero waste.

The lactobacillus naturally present on plants produces lactic acid which preserves the food and is very good for you. Lactobacillus can thrive in 2% NaCl. Bad bacteria can not. I save the brine to make new batches kinda like making yogurt or sourdough bread / starter.

17 posted on 03/01/2023 5:25:41 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: frank ballenger

Rutabaga......yuck. The one root crop I never could enjoy. Sure are big though. Nasty smell. Weird flavor. I much prefer turnips and Kohlrabi over rutabaga.


18 posted on 03/01/2023 5:30:11 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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If the next election results in the Dem fundamental transformation your gray uniformed government agents will offer you the insect rations or the rutabaga and parsnips ones. Your choice. And cameras will record your facial reactions to have computers analyze them.

From Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen (1988—Covid hadn’t happened yet)

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it’s moving fast

Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past

Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed

That will disclose
What everybody knows


19 posted on 03/01/2023 5:36:24 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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https://youtu.be/elfcTldepX0


20 posted on 03/01/2023 5:49:03 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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