"They don't understand where food comes from" says Cornish farmer

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Raymond Gilbard, a farmer based in Launceston has said that people in the UK do not understand where their food comes from.   He also argued that farmers do not have the money to pay £200,000 to the ‘tax man’.

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00:00to the government is, every million pound our farm is worth in asset, we would have to pay

00:06£200,000 in tax. Where do they think that money's coming from? I want to know how many farmers are

00:14actually making huge profits to go out and borrow this money to cover it, because that's the truth

00:21of it. If you've got a £3 million farm, you've got to borrow £400,000 to pay the tax money,

00:27and the money is not in the industry, and this country is going to starve because they do not

00:33realise where food comes from. It comes from Tesco's, it comes from Adster. I went to Plymouth

00:39two years ago, there was a chap from Liverpool, and he looked at me and said, why are you drinking

00:43coke? I said, I got milk in the morning. He said, don't be silly, it comes off Tesco's shelves.

00:50That's the problem, we need to go back to schools, teach kids where food comes from,

00:55and then they'll understand what it's about. That's the truth of it.

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