True, and it's the same with the farmers. We go to a supermarket and get what we think is the cheapest and easiest meat to buy. I was buying pork chops from Asda until the covid crisis meant I was queuing for an hour to get in, then leaving having forgotten loads of stuff. 4 pork chops were about £3 if I remember right. But these chops were tiny, gristly, fatty.
Then I went to a butcher in Tredegar, Tyrone's. 2 pork chops for £3.50 and they are massive things, delicious, and sourced local like. The funny thing is that most of the farmers voted for Brexit, and will see their chicken replaced on supermarket shelves with American chicken that is cruelly raised. But, it is cheaper. And, you have to say "Why is it cheaper for me to buy 4 American chicken breasts compared to 4 British chicken breasts - it costs more to transport them here, but they are cheaper?" And our farmers, who mostly care for animal welfare, will be at a disadvantage because now the UK market is being flooded with hormone induced beef and badly looked after chicken. And, we'll complain, then we'll be won over. It don't taste so bad after all, and you save 50p a week so you can buy another gadget made in China or Taiwan.
Manufacturing was killed by Thatcher, and mass employment is killed by technology. Soon it will be AI and we need the brightest young heads in our universities to put us ahead of the rest. Problem is, we don't want forriners over ere taking our jobs like.