Kit Knightly — Off-Guardian Feb 28, 2023
The past few days have seen certain fruits and vegetables “rationed” by major UK supermarkets. Aldi, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury’s have all put limits on customer purchases of peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers.
Just yesterday, Lidl added their own name to that list.
Many – including Justin King, former Sainsbury’s CEO – have jumped at the chance to lay the blame at Brexit’s feet.
But that doesn’t make much sense, since Morrocco – whence the UK imports a lot of salad vegetables – obviously isn’t in the EU. Further, Ireland has been affected too, plus we’re only 5 months removed from France (and other EU nations) facing their own “catastrophic food shortages”
The other side of the Brexit divide is firmly set on blaming any shortages on the weather. Of course, that’s also helpful to the establishment narrative since the “bad weather” angle can be swiftly and easily parlayed into discussions about climate change. In fact, it already has been.
The real reason there are shortages – supposing there are real shortages, not just psy-op nonsense like the toilet paper fiasco at the beginning of the “pandemic” – is that, one way or another, they have been engineered.
How to create a tomato shortage…
1) Tell people there's a tomato shortage.
2) People panic buy tomatoes.
3) There's a tomato shortage.
Don't be part of it folks.— Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD (@zoeharcombe) February 27, 2023
The cost of producing, harvesting and transporting all crops has spiked because the cost of oil and gas was deliberately inflated. The cost of growing crops has increased because there is a “shortage” of fertiliser – likewise purposefully created.
Both of these are “blamed” on the war in Ukraine, but the war but both the energy crisis and fertiliser crisis predate the war in Ukraine (see here and here). We covered this in detail last spring when “food shortages” first hit the headlines.
Speaking of Ukraine, it’s currently easier to get tomatoes in war-torn Kherson than in London. That’s the reality we’re being presented with.
No tomato shortage here – but I’m in Kherson, a frontline Ukrainian city that gets shelled by the Russians daily, not a British supermarket. pic.twitter.com/FFbVAf1zHC
— Lindsey Hilsum (@lindseyhilsum) February 23, 2023
In short, the rationing is just another narrative that doesn’t make internal sense. It’s due to Brexit but isn’t. It’s due to the weather, but not everywhere. It’s a in some stores and not others and apparently in some places but not others and apparently only affecting major supermarkets.
According to one farmer, these supermarkets could make up the shortfall in imports by buying domestically grown produce, but are refusing to incur those costs. Further evidence that the food shortage narrative must be serving a purpose.
And all the while empty shelves and rationing are being normalised.
Neil Oliver nailed it in his most recent monologue:
They’re rationing tomatoes in the supermarkets. We’re told it’s about supply chains, bad weather and the price of heating, but right now, in terms of the messaging, I suspect it’s more about pushing the word – rationing. Less about any believable shortage of food and more about getting us used to hearing the word.
No doubt, if experience is anything to go by, the rest will come later. My money says the rationing app for our smartphones is already sitting on a hard drive somewhere, ready when we are.
For now, it’s more of a familiar process of psychological manipulation. Get us acquainted with the general idea of food scarcity so that we’re well-primed when the planned reality is unrolled.
We were given the same treatment with words like “lockdown” and “pandemic”, “mandate” and “denier”. Nudge, nudge. Rationing is a word from our parents’ and grandparents’ generation, a bit like “War in Europe” and “Fascist” and now they’re back in fashion once more. Rationing, I ask you, while the landfills swell with fresh food dumped every day.
That’s all it’s about. And it is carefully calculated.
Just as Roald Dahl is the first little taste of retroactive censorship – made acceptable by both his controversial legacy and the fact he wrote for children – this is the thin end of the rationing wedge. It’s just tomatoes, after all. No hardship is it?
And yet the head of the UK’s Farmers Union said it would likely get worse, calling it “the tip of the iceberg” (he wasn’t even making a lettuce pun, which is an awful wasted opportunity).
Maybe we should all eat insects or lab-grown paste instead of importing vegetables, amiright?
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In the USA Bill Gates has bought hundreds of acres of prime farmland and kept it all out of action
same here in the UK Rothschilde funded Tesco have done the same
they have also bought prime farmland and used it for migrant housing projects
starving is a jewish pastime the irish potato famine was caused by jews in the UK buying up stocks etc
bringing supreme hardship and starvation
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise that we cannot eat money.
Cree Indian Proverb
The only vegetables that should me in short supply are political ones!
In Tesco recently no Spanish tomatoes but loads of Spanish strawberries???
Look, there’s that bloody squirrel again!
What next? Allotments banned, back garden greenhouses outlawed, foraging prohibited, fishing with a rod and line disallowed.
Will there be tomato wars in 2023.
Sane people should watch ‘It’s a Bug’s Life’ movie and see if anything is familiar to them.
Time to start growing your own fruit and veg. Or will that become illegal too?
Once this starts it will never end. I remember during the 60’s when this trick was played in one of the African country I was living in, a country that was self-sufficient in food production and had abundant leftover for export to neighboring countries. But then the socialist slant of politics and nationalization of private property and private farming was outlawed so that farms became government collective projects that within a year started seeing scarcity of essential basic good countrywide. This country had the best temperate climate rich loam everywhere and numerous rivers. There was good asphalt roads and railways crisscrossing the entire country yet once the ‘temporary’ shortages started they never ended. What was once an idyllic African country rich in every respect stands as a shithole to this very day, and it is not the only one, countries such as these span the whole continent of Africa. People in the UK will make a grave mistake in attributing this phenomena due to incompetence by those in power. They better wake up to the fact that it is a planned takedown of the prevailing social order and that there is no plan B in place to act as a cushion. Once you people go down that road there is no coming back.
please watch Ricjard D Halls explanation of why the jewbankers will steal all your cash
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=300&part=1&gen=99
Grow your own, weather permitting and accept that we are all being steered back into the 70s. Our days of lounging around our centrally heated homes, dressed in T shirts, eating salads all the year round are over.
Its utter bullshit,last week we were told no salad veg until April, today the supermarkets have salad veg again, if the reasons given were true crop failures/unheated greenhouses and etc, where did it suddenly appear from?
Tomatoes are in short supply: not because of fuel or heating costs, some can use sewerage gas or heat from waste incinerators. Growers given government grants to grow tomatoes are growing cannabis instead-it is more profitable!
These ‘shortages’ are the SECOND preliminary stage to full rationing. The first stage became apparent (to those few who were awake) some while ago – the push for online food shopping coupled with the mysterious difference between on-shelf and reduced online availability.
@ ATaff Quote: fishing with a rod and line disallowed., but you can still use that for fishing, IMO ???
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/cocktail-grenade-explosive-defensive-manual-fragmentation-grenades-sour-lemon-73125101.jpg
Myself my brother Robert and Kevin Thrashbottom
stood in prominent places in ther town centre and took 17,000
signatures to take down the Winston Churchill statues
I stood outside Tesco and some staff came out and said
” you cant do this here Churchill is a hero to us jewish people”
I replied of course he is , he took us into 2 world wars for you .
We handed in the petition to number 10
they did not even reply.
“We handed in the petition to number 10 they did not even reply.”
I wish someone would do a survey to ask how many people think doing a survey is a waste of time.