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FOOD SECURITY: Thread 🧵
It’s scary to see how fragile our food system has become.
These empty shelves at the Lerwick Tesco this evening are the result of just a few days’ disruption in our food supply.
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It’s scary to see how fragile our food system has become.
These empty shelves at the Lerwick Tesco this evening are the result of just a few days’ disruption in our food supply.
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Shetland hasn’t had cargo from the UK mainland for 3 days and the supermarkets feel like ghost towns. There were no green vegetables apart from this one manky cabbage.
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But these scenes belie the fact that Shetland’s food system used to -and could easily again be -far more resilient.
Local shops in Shetland have a business model that relies far less heavily on the pursuit of profit, and much more on the value of serving the community.
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Local shops in Shetland have a business model that relies far less heavily on the pursuit of profit, and much more on the value of serving the community.
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I am frankly appalled that @NFUStweets are calling for those areas identified as Ecological Focus Areas to be brought into production as a response to a humanitarian crisis. And this is why 🧵/1
The horrendous situation in Ukraine is absolutely going to have an impact on global food commodities, and that is the real issue here - that our food is traded as a commodity, on a global scale leading, particularly in the UK’s case, to an over reliance on imported food /2
An obvious response is to grow more food here, right? And isn’t that what the NFUS are calling for? Well, no. /3
