This Piece of Orange Shit Belongs In Jail

[Pat Mustard]

In Europe anyway, the price paid at the shops is generally below the cost of production, and the price paid to farmers is well below the price paid in shops. Subsidies were brought in to ensure that small farmers would be able to survive in such a market.

Ah, gotcha.  Funny thing, our subsidies were origially enacted to help small farmers and the poor, but there's no such thing..in truth, as a small farmer today, nor would they qualify for subsidies if there were....as to whether or not the poor get a taste..lulz.

(I run a small farm, but it's more accurate to say that I'm in the agro-tourism business - couldn't plug into subsidies -or- the dominant model market and still turn a profit.  Any money I make comes from sidestepping the whole thing.)

EU subsidies work in countries with a tradition of small farmers. They don't work in the UK however, where the landed gentry own most of the land and have hoovered up most of the subsidies as a result (either through huge rents on their tenants who actually farm, or keeping loads of land permanently fallow).