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> And one welcome result is that a very large proportion of the food I eat here is produced in Norway. This is only the last step. Most of the animal feed is
by tyfon 7y ago
> And one welcome result is that a very large proportion of the food I eat here is produced in Norway.
This is only the last step. Most of the animal feed is bought outside of Norway and from the wheat we do produce only 15% is of high enough quality to be used for humans [1], the rest is animal feed. The wheat that is used for humans have to be treated since it's too moist.
Norway is _far_ from self sufficient and will never be. The farmers (5% of the population) have received subsidies that are equivalent to the deposits to the sovereign wealth fund since the fund was started, that is to say if we didn't subsidise them we could have had a fund that was twice the size.
The general quality of the food in the stores is also very bad compared to other countries with the exception of pork and sheep meat.
There is nothing to gain as a nation from subsidising our farms the way we do except for the 5% that actually receive all this money. It would be much better for the society to let countries that have areas that can produce food properly do that and just buy it from them instead.
All in all I wish we went the NZ route, let the farms go bankrupt if they can't produce something that people want at the price they will pay it and restore the land to the nature.
[1] https://brodogkorn.no/fakta/matkorn/ https://brodogkorn.no/fakta/matkorn/
- unixhero 7y agoYeah something has got to give. Irrespecitve of Consumer Purchasing Power; Norway has the most expensive food prices in Europe[0]. [0] Norwegian Bureau of Statistics, 06.08.2019, https://www.ssb.no/en/priser-og-prisindekser/artikler-og-publikasjoner/norwegian-food-prices-top-european-comparison https://www.ssb.no/en/priser-og-prisindekser/artikler-og-pub...
- varjag 7y ago> The general quality of the food in the stores is also very bad compared to other countries with the exception of pork and sheep meat. The variety/selection is poor, prices are high, but the quality is better than the average in much of Europe. Including Germany and very much all of Eastern Europe. Gastritis is mostly unheard of in Norway. Lidl went bust here trying to sell their crap they can do away with elsewhere, even at bottom prices.
- ksec 7y ago> It would be much better for the society to let countries that have areas that can produce food properly do that and just buy it from them instead. And then you have your whole nation dependent on Foreign Policy. I think we need tech to improve local food production to a level that is at least self sustainable ( so their citizen don't starve ) and have extras either produced local or imported.