A quote from that DT article:
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The minister said it was “a concern” that schools failed to encourage more pupils to consider careers in food and farming.
I smell a convenient rat in this minister's statement; the horticulture industry is currently badgering the government to raise interest in horticulture as a career for school leavers because very few are entering the industry. The reason is, horticulture just doesn't appear in the school curriculum any more.
Horticulture has suffered from the same problems as engineering. The image presented to young students for decades has been that these occupations are dirty, hard-work, unsatisfying, unrewarding, and don't fit the get-rich-quick celebrity culture that the young have been conditioned to expect. Plus the fact that successive governments for decades have done everything within their power to positively discourage, even destroy, horticulture and engineering.
I also see in this article another government scare program. One that sits conveniently with the global warming/climate change, global population, and peek oil scares. Form a political point of view, a frightened population is a more malleable population.
Another quote from the DT article:
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Britain imports 40 per cent of all food consumed and the proportion is rising.
Britain has an electricity production crisis; a water storage crisis; an overloaded road transport system crisis; an overloaded NHS crisis; and an over-stretched education system crisis. All of which have been assisted by the deliberate political policy of open door immigration and EU membership. Britain also has a crisis of honesty and integrity from within the whole of the political sphere.
The politicians, including David Heath, the agriculture minister, are the problem in all these crises; and not part of the cure.
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