Are food shortages the farmers' secret weapon?
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The Times
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Over ten thousand farmers marched on Westminster this week, protesting changes to inheritance tax. But does the government’s new policy mean the end of family farms or is it a sensible move that only targets the richest landowners? And as nearly 60% of the food we eat in the UK is home grown, if the farmers escalate their protest, and refuse to let food off their farms, what could it mean for your fridge and the nation’s food security?
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- Olly Harrison, Farmer and co-owner of T&O Harrison farm.
- Will Humphries, Southwest and Countryside Correspondent for The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Olivia Case.
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| 0:29.8 | We all want to enjoy food that tastes great and is sauce responsibly, but it's not always easy |
| 0:34.5 | to know where your favourite foods come from. McDonald's worked with more than 23,000 British and Irish farmers to source quality ingredients. |
| 0:42.0 | Becky Berry is a beef farmer in the Wiltshire countryside who supplies beef to McDonald's for its iconic burgers. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm part of a group of farmers and we've been on a journey that McDonald's have sponsored to help us with learning more about regenerative practices |
| 0:56.9 | and how that can benefit us, our farms, the people and the animals that we're producing. |
| 1:03.5 | It's a way of McDonald's giving back to the whole industry. |
| 1:06.8 | What we're trying to do now is move the cows from where they've eaten |
| 1:10.1 | and they're moving into a longer, lusher pasture. |
| 1:13.9 | And part of that reason is to help the biodiversity. |
| 1:17.1 | As you can see here in the long grass, we've got moths and butterflies |
| 1:20.5 | that have just hatched out. |
| 1:21.8 | We can hear in the hedgerows around the outside of the field, the birdsong. |
| 1:25.0 | Change a little, change a lot. |
| 1:26.8 | Find out more about McDonald's plan for change on the McDonald's website. |
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