And the UK can't compete with NZ lamb prices. Mainly, I guess, because of the price of farmland (pushing £4,000 per acre) here which bears no relation to the possible agiricultural returns.....Sunshine, alpine water and really wide paddock makes it easier/cheaper to grow quality produce. Also farming has become incredibly efficient since all subsidies were phased out >20 years ago.
FWIW it also generates less greenhouse emission to grow stuff in NZ even allowing for the transport because the climate is so mild, meaning animals roam freely and eat grass without needing to stay close to heated/cooled sheds or whatever.
Paying 20% more for something that tastes 100% better sounds more sensible to meSure. Give me fresh produce any day. But what about 100% more for something that tastes the same (or worse?) ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
