“Operation Empty Larder”: How His Majesty’s Government Quietly Decided That Food Is a Luxury and Farmers Are a Pest** LONDON – Sources deep inside the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA, pronounced “death-fra”) have leaked a stunning new policy paper titled *“Strategic Irrelevance of the Countryside (Phase II)”*. The 400-page masterpiece can be summarised in three bullet points the civil servants actually underlined in pink highlighter: 1. British farmers are basically cospl