Rosie Boycott made an interesting point in a Guardian article this week. She suggested that there are more prisoners in the UK now than there are farmers.
I don't subscribe to all of Rosie's views on food production (my farming activities have to support my writing rather than the other way around) but I share her concerns upon sustainability.
This is a devastating statistic, what a degenerated civilisation we are becoming.
We are talking statistics here so you could massage the figures to make the claim true or false. There are 85 076 people in prison at the time of writing. I would guess that there are a 120 000 independent farming units in the UK but that only 60 000 farmers derive their main income from production.
However you look at the figures you have to admit it makes a bloody good excuse to use a picture of a dog dressed as an inmate.
Great picture Matthew, dogs in clothes are ok, dancing dogs are wrong! I read Rosies article, as you say she makes some valid points but makes it all sounds so very very easy!! Love the blog, enough to start my own!
http://anorfolkfarmer.blogspot.com/