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minus-squareAggravationstation@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·edit-211 days ago Hans Breitenmoser, a farmer, says the ‘dairy industry will die a horrible death’ if undocumented workers are deported. When Brexit came into force and “migrant” (i.e. low paid Eastern European) fruit pickers were kept out of the UK, farmers here struggled https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/farmers-brexit-kent-government-brits-b940026.html If apparently we can’t afford to produce food without exploiting low paid immigrants then either the people running the farms are money grubbing dickheads or there’s something very wrong with how society functions.
When Brexit came into force and “migrant” (i.e. low paid Eastern European) fruit pickers were kept out of the UK, farmers here struggled https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/farmers-brexit-kent-government-brits-b940026.html
If apparently we can’t afford to produce food without exploiting low paid immigrants then either the people running the farms are money grubbing dickheads or there’s something very wrong with how society functions.