Wednesday, 05 August 2026 13:25

UK Warning

Written by  The Hound

OPINION: Your old mate reckons the atrocious way farmers in the UK are treated by their lords and masters in Westminster is a salient warning for us.

Most politicians are untrustworthy bastards, but some are downright dangerous.

Imagine being a British pig farmer.

You are rightly held to some of the strictest welfare and environment standards in the world. Then you walk into a supermarket full of imported pork, reared to standards that you'd be arrested for, at a price that undercuts you by 35%.

That has already happened here.

In the UK, it's not just pigs. It's everything they produce.

As one astute Pommy prognosticator says, "It's a massive hypocritical accountancy trick that outsources environmental and ethical impacts abroad while punishing farmers and claiming moral victory at home".

Couldn't happen here? It already has.

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