Comments on: A new decade, a new CAP http://capreform.eu/a-new-decade-a-new-cap/ Europe's common agricultural policy is broken - let's fix it! Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:51:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: french derek http://capreform.eu/a-new-decade-a-new-cap/comment-page-1/#comment-42431 french derek Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:02:47 +0000 http://capreform.eu/?p=962#comment-42431 One of the greatest problems with the current CAP is that huge amounts of money go to food "transformers" - ie industrials who are forced to buy EU produce with which to make their products (milk-based, sugar-based, etc). These are not farmers. Indeed they themselves may be one of the causes of "industrial agriculture". What reason is there for a continued CAP support of their businesses? I wish these NGO's luck. Whilst their proposals look eminently sensible to me (as a taxpayer and therefore CAP contributer), I must draw attention to the recent Paris meeting of 22 EU member nations' agricultural ministers. The French view of their joint agreement was more or less CAP as usual. Play the Environmental card! Let's have real fines directly onto the real polluters. EU agriculture currently uses more petro-chemical products (fertilisers, herbicides, etc) than many other industries. (Though, in France, one must not call agriculture an industry). They are polluting water-courses, destroying wild-life and impoverishing their soils. Bon courage, mes braves! One of the greatest problems with the current CAP is that huge amounts of money go to food “transformers” – ie industrials who are forced to buy EU produce with which to make their products (milk-based, sugar-based, etc). These are not farmers. Indeed they themselves may be one of the causes of “industrial agriculture”. What reason is there for a continued CAP support of their businesses?

I wish these NGO’s luck. Whilst their proposals look eminently sensible to me (as a taxpayer and therefore CAP contributer), I must draw attention to the recent Paris meeting of 22 EU member nations’ agricultural ministers. The French view of their joint agreement was more or less CAP as usual.

Play the Environmental card! Let’s have real fines directly onto the real polluters. EU agriculture currently uses more petro-chemical products (fertilisers, herbicides, etc) than many other industries. (Though, in France, one must not call agriculture an industry). They are polluting water-courses, destroying wild-life and impoverishing their soils.

Bon courage, mes braves!

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