Minister of Food

So now there is a Minister of Food supplies (or something along those lines). At least they've picked someone with experience.

Interesing. As someone said earlier, it's going to be one heck of a rollercoaster for the next six months.

Something to do with this?


By setting their own standards and cutting tariffs on food imports from third countries, the UK could seriously devalue the British market for Irish beef and dairy exports and in turn destabilise the European food market.

“What this means in practice is high quality Irish food exports produced to the highest EU standards being undermined on the British market by cheaper, inferior food products such as Brazilian beef, hormoned US beef or chlorinated chicken.”
https://www.ifa.ie/uk-is-heading-for-a-hard-border-and-a-cheap-food-policy-that-would-be-disastrous-for-ireland/


"Minister Creed must press for the EU to demand that, as an agreed part of the future relationship between the UK and the EU, trade deals cannot be made by the UK that would allow for cheaper and lower standard products from outside the EU to be imported into the British market, displacing Irish and EU quality foods”."

https://www.ifa.ie/ifa-sets-out-major-challenges-for-minister-creed-in-phase-2-of-brexit/

Yick. I remember chlorinated chicken, and I wouldn't voluntarily buy it.

I believe it's more     https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/26/uk-appoints-food-supplies-minister-amid-fears-of-no-deal-brexit

"The government has appointed a minister to oversee the protection of food supplies through the Brexit process amid rising concerns about the effect of a no-deal departure from the European Union. The MP David Rutley, a former Asda and PepsiCo executive, was handed the brief at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs earlier this month. ... Food industry insiders welcomed his appointment after warnings that delays of only half an hour at UK ports and the Irish border would risk one in 10 British firms going bankrupt."

But, really, how would one tell? The stream of bizarreness coming out media pipelines from London twists back on itself so often that I don't give it much credence anymore.