(June 27, 2016 at 2:29 am)Mathilda Wrote: Talking about food production though, farmers won't be given payments from the Common Agricultural Policy now to insulate them from the peaks and troughs of the market. This won't lead to hunger but it will lead to many farmers going out of business.
Many more farmers going out of business, you mean. Even with CAP payments (horrifically administeded by the Dept of Agriculture), farmers in the UK have been going out of business in large numbers for a few years, mainly because of supermarket power, they've been supplying at well below the cost of production.
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