[moi2388]

Oh you import food from third world countries and it’s terrible? Who would have guessed.

Better keep pushing the farmers in the EU away for more of these great “trade deals”

[darth_avocado]

Are these EU farmers that are being turned away growing tea and spices?

[DocTomoe]

Some do, especially in Portugal and the Azores, for tea. And I grow my own peppers and chillies in cold Germany - why would we not be able to do so on an industrial scale?

Or you buy your tea from other first-world countries, such as Japan.

[account42]

But we absolutely need to shut down our farms to lower emissions so that we appear "green". It's totally worth to become food dependent on questionable countries for that.

[DocTomoe]

In the end, it is up to the consumer.

Local variants exist. But supermarkets are convenient and cheap.

[psychoslave]

https://unric.org/en/un-poverty-expert-europeans-impoverishm...