{"id":1500877,"date":"2022-06-02T08:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500877"},"modified":"2022-06-02T08:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:45:17","slug":"experts-claim-that-a-massively-dependent-britain-just-one-catastrophe-away-from-food-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-claim-that-a-massively-dependent-britain-just-one-catastrophe-away-from-food-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Claim That a \u201cMassively Dependent\u201d Britain Just One Catastrophe Away From Food Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexperts-claim-that-a-massively-dependent-britain-just-one-catastrophe-away-from-food-shortages%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500877&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Thanks to global supply problems caused by the likes of the war in Ukraine, experts have claimed that a \u201cmassively dependent\u201d Britain is only one catastrophe away from food shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Having pushed through issues to do with Brexit, as well as the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic, a number of experts have now claimed that the war in Ukraine has left Britain only one catastrophe away from major food shortages.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The claim however has been met with stringent denial from the country\u2019s\u00a0Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which has insisted that the UK is not \u201coverly reliant on the rest of the world for food\u201d, and that the country\u2019s exposure to food shortages is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/05\/30\/african-food-prices-spiking-amid-ukraine-war-russia-sanctions\/\">similar<\/a> to that of other nations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/terror-and-security\/britain-one-shock-away-food-crisis-experts-warn\/\">report<\/a> by\u00a0<em>The Telegraph<\/em>,\u00a0University of London food policy professor\u00a0Timothy Lang and\u00a0Martin McKee, a professor of\u00a0European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, both believe that the UK could find itself in significant danger should another crisis come along like the war in Ukraine and disrupt the world\u2019s supply of food and fertiliser further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe prepared for shocks \u2014 we\u2019ve seen the beginning of this with Covid and it\u2019s going to get much worse,\u201d Lang is reported by the publication as saying, with the food policy expert also claiming that \u201cBritain doesn\u2019t even produce half of its food\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/united-kingdom-food-security-report-2021\/united-kingdom-food-security-report-2021-theme-2-uk-food-supply-sources\">contrary to claims made by official sources.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what on earth is going on in Defra for the Secretary of State in charge of food supply to be so inaccurate and inappropriate,\u201d he continued. \u201cMy frustration is, my country is not taking it seriously, it just does knee-jerk reactions. If the Chancellor is prepared to throw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/uk-taxes-oil-giants-to-help-tackle-inflation-fallout\/\">\u00a315bn<\/a> at alleviating energy problems, why is he not doing this for food?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">African Food Prices Spiking Amid Ukraine War, Russia Sanctions <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JVbMUOrLA1\">https:\/\/t.co\/JVbMUOrLA1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1531264172847243267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lang said that the government needed to \u201cstop assuming other people should feed us\u201d and start focusing on boosting local horticulture projects, something which his fellow expert McKee believes would involve increasing the number of available seasonal agricultural workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis can only be dealt with with freedom of movement,\u201d apparently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinmckee\">ardent remainer<\/a> McKee claimed, who perhaps unsurprisingly was not shy in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinmckee\/status\/1526120765803966464\">heaping blame<\/a> on Brexit for his predictions.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether or not McKee\u2019s assessment is in any way skewed by bias, Defra bit back at the notion that Britain is overly reliant on foreign powers for its food, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/terror-and-security\/britain-one-shock-away-food-crisis-experts-warn\/\">saying<\/a> that British farmers are responsible for a significant proportion of the food going to feed those in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reject the claims that we are overly reliant on the rest of the world for food,\u201d a spokesman for the government department said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to our farmers, we are almost 100 per cent self-sufficient in poultry and certain vegetables,\u201d they continued. \u201cWhen it comes to food we can produce here, we are 75 per cent self-sufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Peter Caddle on Twitter:<\/span><\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peter_caddle\"><span>@Peter_Caddle<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to global supply problems caused by the likes of the war in Ukraine, experts have claimed that a \u201cmassively dependent\u201d Britain is only one catastrophe away from food shortages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}