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Apr 24·edited Apr 24

Ah, economic arguments in favour of free trade devolve down to security or resilience arguments?

Where's Jim?

Anyway, I have to admit that I do find it amusing that the efficiency justifications for, say, Just-In-Time manufacturing, subject to models and frameworks for accounting and finance, get blown out of the water by the security argument.

That said, if faced by lower food prices resulting from greater supply, then farmers (aka the NFU) should shift to higher margin products.

https://winegb.co.uk/who-we-are/industry-stats/

Ah. Are these people members of the NFU?

Of course, there's this sort of stuff going on;

https://deframedia.blog.gov.uk/2022/06/16/sussex-wine-to-receive-protected-status/

https://www.gov.uk/protected-food-drink-names/east-kent-goldings

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