I thank you for that intervention. Those are exactly the concerns that I am expressing. You sum up very neatly what will happen to global markets. We have been importing from south America, Africa and many other places. When the almighty dollar takes hold, and China tells countries, ““Don't export your meat products to the United Kingdom. Export them to China and we'll pay you a dollar a kilo more,”” producers will naturally say, ““Thank you very much, United Kingdom, but we'll sell to China. We'll export to you if you pay £1.50 a kilo extra.”” That is exactly where the problem materialises.
Energy is very much linked to this issue. As you indicated, the cost of agricultural fertiliser—
Biotechnology and Food Security
Proceeding contribution from
Mark Spencer
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 12 January 2011.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Biotechnology and Food Security.
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