These are the issues that France needs to pay attention to when it encouraged the tescofication of its food supply industry.
And Tesco will just fly in all their soft fruit from Egypt, y'know, the place where there are food riots going on. Just like their flowers from Kenya. keep to the Fen Causeway
The PAC has always had a productivist goal (it was designed that way), and agro-business and big retail have always worked hand-in-hand in France to squeeze the smaller producers - and the laborers. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
And Tesco will just fly in all their soft fruit from Egypt, y'know, the place where there are food riots going on. Just like their flowers from Kenya.
Sure, if you look at a £4:00 bunch of flowers in bare terms, it's unlikely that more than £1:50 is transport. So even doubling the cost of transport won't push the flowers out of economic viability.
But doubling the cost of transport across the whole economic sphere renders huge portions of the transport industry as currently configured non-viable. People will simply cease to operate in the way they do currently because the margins become nonsensical. Large warehousers like supermarkets will cease their 800 mile round trips between sorting centres etc etc, localism will predominate. So flowers become a casualty of the entire rationale unravelling rather than being priced out of the market. keep to the Fen Causeway
