Could the UK feed itself?

[Shaw Tarse]

A lot of natural disasters occur where there is not enough (natural) food to feed the population.
Ignoring "luxury items" Could Britain produce enough food to survive?

[s2art]

Shaw Tarse said:

A lot of natural disasters occur where there is not enough (natural) food to feed the population.
Ignoring "luxury items" Could Britain produce enough food to survive?

Given long enough, perhaps. First thing to do would be to reclaim, and protect, our national waters and let the fish stocks recover.

[Jimbeaux]

Shaw Tarse said:

A lot of natural disasters occur where there is not enough (natural) food to feed the population.
Ignoring "luxury items" Could Britain produce enough food to survive?

Soylent green? Seriously, barring outside aid, possibly fishing and sustinence farming would hold to some degree?

Edited by Jimbeaux on Tuesday 19th January 18:47

[thinfourth2]

Are we allowed to eat the chavs?

[Jimbeaux]

thinfourth2 said:

Are we allowed to eat the chavs?

There again, Soylent Green.

[singlecoil]

Apparently we would need to cut down on meat consumption, but yes, we certainly could. We would need to get the diesel fuel from somewhere though. I don't know how much oil is left under the North Sea.

No diesel, no tractors, no food.

[plasticpig]

Theoretically yes. It would require quite a change in diet however.

[grumbledoak]

Right now, no.

We would need to (probably quite aggressively) protect our waters, and seriously change our attitude to farming. I believe that either would require us to ditch the EU.

We're not energy secure either.

[Don]

Why the meat consumption problem? Most of Wales and Scotland is covered with hills you can't grow crops on. They're already partially covered in sheep. You could just extend that to sheep and goats for higher pastures. You could (and would) utilise moorland that currently only gets Grouse on it and so on.

I absolutely agree our diet would be very different...and might include meat that currently the population turn their noses up at like rabbit and so on - but hey, I'm game for it.

[Monki]

I'm going with Chav-Farms, feed them up on white lightning and then sell them on as kebab meat. Bet you won't tell the difference

[herewego]

Don said:

Why the meat consumption problem? Most of Wales and Scotland is covered with hills you can't grow crops on. They're already partially covered in sheep. You could just extend that to sheep and goats for higher pastures. You could (and would) utilise moorland that currently only gets Grouse on it and so on.

I absolutely agree our diet would be very different...and might include meat that currently the population turn their noses up at like rabbit and so on - but hey, I'm game for it.

Meat animals are fed on imported products such as Soya from Brazil after forest removal. If we fed the animals home produced products there'd be less space to grow our own food.
Another point to consider is that they say 50% of UK produced food is landfilled. Finding solutions for this would make a big difference.

[s2art]

herewego said:

Don said:

Why the meat consumption problem? Most of Wales and Scotland is covered with hills you can't grow crops on. They're already partially covered in sheep. You could just extend that to sheep and goats for higher pastures. You could (and would) utilise moorland that currently only gets Grouse on it and so on.

I absolutely agree our diet would be very different...and might include meat that currently the population turn their noses up at like rabbit and so on - but hey, I'm game for it.

Meat animals are fed on imported products such as Soya from Brazil after forest removal. If we fed the animals home produced products there'd be less space to grow our own food.
Another point to consider is that they say 50% of UK produced food is landfilled. Finding solutions for this would make a big difference.

Those Sheep infesting the welsh hills dont eat much Soya.

[herewego]

s2art said:

herewego said:

Don said:

Why the meat consumption problem? Most of Wales and Scotland is covered with hills you can't grow crops on. They're already partially covered in sheep. You could just extend that to sheep and goats for higher pastures. You could (and would) utilise moorland that currently only gets Grouse on it and so on.

I absolutely agree our diet would be very different...and might include meat that currently the population turn their noses up at like rabbit and so on - but hey, I'm game for it.

Meat animals are fed on imported products such as Soya from Brazil after forest removal. If we fed the animals home produced products there'd be less space to grow our own food.
Another point to consider is that they say 50% of UK produced food is landfilled. Finding solutions for this would make a big difference.

Those Sheep infesting the welsh hills dont eat much Soya.

No but they don't provide much of UK meat consumption either.

[deeps]

Shaw Tarse said:

Could Britain produce enough food to survive?

Piece of cake.

[s2art]

herewego said:

s2art said:

herewego said:

Don said:

Why the meat consumption problem? Most of Wales and Scotland is covered with hills you can't grow crops on. They're already partially covered in sheep. You could just extend that to sheep and goats for higher pastures. You could (and would) utilise moorland that currently only gets Grouse on it and so on.

I absolutely agree our diet would be very different...and might include meat that currently the population turn their noses up at like rabbit and so on - but hey, I'm game for it.

Meat animals are fed on imported products such as Soya from Brazil after forest removal. If we fed the animals home produced products there'd be less space to grow our own food.
Another point to consider is that they say 50% of UK produced food is landfilled. Finding solutions for this would make a big difference.

Those Sheep infesting the welsh hills dont eat much Soya.

No but they don't provide much of UK meat consumption either.

Not true, and, as has been pointed out, we could farm a stload more of them.

[thinfourth2]

deeps said:

Shaw Tarse said:

Could Britain produce enough food to survive?

Piece of cake.

Have to be a damn big cake

[groucho]

Shaw Tarse said:

A lot of natural disasters occur where there is not enough (natural) food to feed the population.
Ignoring "luxury items" Could Britain produce enough food to survive?

Couldn't we go down Tescos?

[zac510]

We could be more efficient too. I try not to waste but usually always waste a little bit, like the ends of bread loaves that I could eat instead of chucking out!

[Parrot of Doom]

Chuck the bread out for the birds. No waste then.

[sleep envy]

Don said:

Why the meat consumption problem? Most of Wales and Scotland is covered with hills you can't grow crops on. They're already partially covered in sheep. You could just extend that to sheep and goats for higher pastures. You could (and would) utilise moorland that currently only gets Grouse on it and so on.

I absolutely agree our diet would be very different...and might include meat that currently the population turn their noses up at like rabbit and so on - but hey, I'm game for it.

plus cat and dog