people increasingly divorced from the land.

[Steve]

(12 November 2014, 11:46)SecretPrepper Wrote: People should be suspicious of farming. Modern agriculture is terrible for the land.

True. Some farmland is nothing more than a way to hold crops whilst they feed on fertilizer. Worse still, much of the fertilizer is made from oil or gas so is dependent on other countries.

The problem is that specialised crops growing on specialised fertilizers are very productive, possibly the only way that we can produce enough food for ourselves now that most of the population doesn't know one end of a spade from the other.

The continued under-investment in UK farms is bad because it makes us vulnerable if our foreign suppliers crash, but the only alternative is to subsidise our farms which is the antithesis of the free-market economy and also against EU rules.