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Dukhat
Member Sun Mar 29 05:55:58
Here it is boys.

Dukhat
Member Sun Mar 29 06:08:59
"Maybe the 1% can step in and fund the rest of the society now. They could pay people’s bills, food and medicines now when everyone is losing their jobs. They can do that out of their own free will, or risk being robbed by the masses of hungry disgruntled people.

Also, who will be on top when the crisis is over. China or USA?"

- Paramount

Dukhat
Member Sun Mar 29 06:09:32
"Food may become more expensive:

http://www...navirus-farm-labor-europe.html

PARIS — When Europe tightened its borders to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, France’s biggest farmers sounded an alarm: The workers they rely on from other countries to harvest much of the nation’s food could no longer make the trip.

The concern is widespread. In Britain, farmers are struggling to find people to pick raspberries and potatoes. Part of Germany’s prized white asparagus crop risks rotting in the ground. And in Italy, over a quarter of the strawberries, beans and lettuce ripening in coming months may lack harvesters.

European governments have declared food supplies a matter of national security as millions flock to supermarkets to brace for prolonged home confinement. But border lockdowns have immobilized legions of seasonal workers from Eastern Europe who toil in fields from Spain to Sweden, forcing a rapid rethink of how to supply labor to those farms.

France’s agriculture minister this week trumpeted what sounded like a surreal call for hairdressers, waiters, florists and others temporarily unable to work at their mothballed businesses to head to the nation’s fields and start picking.

“I’m calling on this shadow army, on the many men and women who want to work,” Didier Guillaume, the minister, said on BFM television on Tuesday. “We have to produce to feed the French.”

Europe isn’t about to run out of food. Truckloads of pasta, tomatoes and other goods continue to cross the continent, with bottlenecks at some borders. But the widening clarion call to citizens underscores an uncomfortable reality: Without low-cost mobile labor from Eastern Europe, the breadbaskets of Europe’s wealthier economies risk losing their harvest.
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-Daemon

Paramount
Member Sun Mar 29 08:36:47
”In Britain, farmers are struggling to find people to pick raspberries and potatoes.”

Can’t Brits pick the berries and potatoes themselves? If there is a crisis, Boris should be able to order out the Brits to the potatoe fields.

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Dukhat Member	Sun Mar 29 05:55:58 Here it is boys.
Dukhat Member	Sun Mar 29 06:08:59 "Maybe the 1% can step in and fund the rest of the society now. They could pay people’s bills, food and medicines now when everyone is losing their jobs. They can do that out of their own free will, or risk being robbed by the masses of hungry disgruntled people. Also, who will be on top when the crisis is over. China or USA?" - Paramount
Dukhat Member	Sun Mar 29 06:09:32 "Food may become more expensive: http://www...navirus-farm-labor-europe.html PARIS — When Europe tightened its borders to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, France’s biggest farmers sounded an alarm: The workers they rely on from other countries to harvest much of the nation’s food could no longer make the trip. The concern is widespread. In Britain, farmers are struggling to find people to pick raspberries and potatoes. Part of Germany’s prized white asparagus crop risks rotting in the ground. And in Italy, over a quarter of the strawberries, beans and lettuce ripening in coming months may lack harvesters. European governments have declared food supplies a matter of national security as millions flock to supermarkets to brace for prolonged home confinement. But border lockdowns have immobilized legions of seasonal workers from Eastern Europe who toil in fields from Spain to Sweden, forcing a rapid rethink of how to supply labor to those farms. France’s agriculture minister this week trumpeted what sounded like a surreal call for hairdressers, waiters, florists and others temporarily unable to work at their mothballed businesses to head to the nation’s fields and start picking. “I’m calling on this shadow army, on the many men and women who want to work,” Didier Guillaume, the minister, said on BFM television on Tuesday. “We have to produce to feed the French.” Europe isn’t about to run out of food. Truckloads of pasta, tomatoes and other goods continue to cross the continent, with bottlenecks at some borders. But the widening clarion call to citizens underscores an uncomfortable reality: Without low-cost mobile labor from Eastern Europe, the breadbaskets of Europe’s wealthier economies risk losing their harvest. [...]" -Daemon
Paramount Member	Sun Mar 29 08:36:47 ”In Britain, farmers are struggling to find people to pick raspberries and potatoes.” Can’t Brits pick the berries and potatoes themselves? If there is a crisis, Boris should be able to order out the Brits to the potatoe fields.
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