Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» The system is BROKEN. While people who are hungry line up at food kitchens farmers let what they grow rot in the fields. How can this be?
Are they suffering from a combination commercial-catering customers closing their doors, and a loss of food transport and processing businesses?
Many dairy farmers in the UK are having to throw away a lot of milk thanks to the closures of restaurants and schools; but I cannot imagine any farmer would willingly "let what they grow rot in the field".
It must be heart-breaking as well as bank-breaking to see all that produce wasted because the route from farm to shop has broken somewhere.
Thank you for your reply Durdle. With no workers to pick the crops or no way to get them to market or no market for them letting them rot is cheaper. Whether any or all of that is true I don't know. :)
Durdle 