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The agricultural lobby puts this out a lot, but it’s not true. The pig farmers and the dairy farmers that are causing the most problems require vast imports of fodder grown elsewhere. The efficiency of a lot of greenhouse agriculture is questionable as well (which was made obvious when a not insignificant chunk of its production was wound down when supplies of cheap Russian gas dried up.

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So energy prices increasing by 300%, eating away profits, on top of record inflation is proof that the whole business is inefficient? Lol, no. Even if a financial shockwave told you anything about the efficiency of green houses (it does not) you can’t base your argument on a war induced fluke.

If a business can only exist if energy prices are unrealistically low, then, yes, it is inefficient.

So the only time energy is priced realistically is during wartime. Noted.

Were they unrealistically low though? Wind/solar/hydro are supposed to be much cheaper than fossil fuels longterm..

And gas prices are more or less back to where they were before the invasion.

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