Politics in your fridge
The EU has a Common Agricultural (CAP).
After World War II there was a big need to produce enough food for Europe. This has long since been and today the problem is overproduction of poor quality food from farms that seriously damage the .
are given mainly to farmers as payment to the production and as price support. , the more a farm produces, the more money the farmer receives regardless of performance. The CAP favours industrial farms that use large amounts of water, , pesticides and fertilisers and take little account of animal welfare considerations.
Not only is the CAP damaging to our health and the , it also works against development. CAP greatly undermine food production in developing countries. With the of (about 6 billion Euro a year) the EU dumps surplus production in Southern countries, forcing local producers out of their .