Boris Johnson admitted the farming industry needed pickers as he visited one in Cornwall to pick crops today to hand out to mammoth queues of struggling families.
Speaking to Times Radio, Ms Batters said: ‘It’s a growing problem. I know glasshouses where tomatoes remain unpicked, we know there was a big crop of lettuces that was ploughed back in last week. ‘We have food banks at full stretch, and yet we are wasting fantastic quality, nutritious products on farms.’Volunteers work to put together food parcels to be distributed to clients attending the Bradford Central Foodbank in Bradford
There has been a surge in prices since Vladimir Putin sent troops to war in Ukraine, which is a major worldwide supplier of grain crops.and accentuated by the pandemic’ were badly affecting the country’s food and farming sector. The prime minister has promised to back British farmers to boost domestic food production, create new jobs and expand the economy.
Maybe if they hadn’t sent people away due to Brexit. Why not turn farms into pick your own strawberries, etc.? No excuse to waste food.
we have thousands in prisons that could work or thousands on benefits that could work but refuse too! stop the hand outs and make people earn their money!!