Mashed potato sandwiches off the menu for the grandkids?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...potato-bread-shortages-force-change-diet.html

Having travelled a bit, I notice the bio security measures when returning to this country are not as overt as others. Do we need to worry about this ?

 

Cutting down on potatoes and wheat will not be a bad thing for many people.

 

I think so
To little is done in this country about bio-security with things coming in and out, even with in the country it's bad go back to 2000 foot and mouth

I think people will be eating more as the crops are very good and the price may come down, one potatoe merchant has a lot of spuds from last year he could not sell
Wheat prices are all ready £30 a ton down from last year, but this can change if we get some bad weather with in the world then the prices will go up

 

Was talking to someone in America about blight control, she's not allowed to burn the infected plants, can't put them in the bin, the council said the only way she could get rid of them was to put them in the communal compost bin, thus spreading it to everyone else

 

Its what they call recycling, all things have a bin of their own, or will do very shortly.
Its only a matter of time before we all get yet another bin designated for blight affected spuds and toms.
The world has gone crazy.
And I'd not stop at vetting plants entering the country.

 

I noticed on entry to Australia as well as stringent food smuggling checks we were asked if we had travelled in any agricultural areas, any passengers who had, had boots etc inspected.
Travelling across on a train from Sydney to Perth we we was stopped at the east/west border and all fruit, seeds and non packaged foodstuffs was collected for destruction. So as not to infect the food production regions.
I appreciate this alone will not be enough to achieve bio security but do we think we need to be more visible here with our entry checks, if not just to make folk think more?

 

Did they spray you with air freshener on the plane when you landed?

 

Do we think the mail article is just a starting ploy to scare us into the acceptance of genetically modified crops?

 

No just the mail doing its usual alarmist thing.

Scaring us into GM would be a government led tactic.

Along the lines of global warming

 

Well I'm telling you now...I cannot live without mashed potatoes

 

Re Mail - Fair point! (Though article was nicked from the Independent)

But do the government not use the press to gauge opinion and reaction?

 

I agree, but would the EU allow it.
We are not really open to the more tropical kinds of stuff, but anything that can survive northern Europe can survive here.
But then we are so close, only 20 miles away, is there really much point?