The CAP should be abolished. It has killed millions of people over the last 30 years and keeps millions more in poverty.
It is far worse than any single war (or war on terror) and shows the utter hypocrisy of those who bleat about American foreign policy and spout BS about globalisation while ignoring hoe EU policy causes far more suffering and anguish.
The CAP basically stops farmers in developing countries from selling their goods to the EU while we flood their economies with subsidised food and trap then in a cycle of poverty. The Americans have tried to get us to level the playing flied for years but we have refused. Even during famines in Africa in the 80's we refused to give them are mountains of surplus food, preferring to burn it or sell it to closed economies like the Soviet Union. Little has changes.
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I have read some rediculous comments in my time on this and other forums but that has got to take the biscuit.
Headline "the Irish farmer has killed more in African than landmines, civil wars, etc"
Maybe Mugabe can blame the Irish farmer and CAP for the fact that his people are starving.
Hell it has nothing to do with fact he confiscated some of the most productive farmland in the world from real farmers to give to his non-farming supporters.
Oh and while you are bleating about US trying to get Europe to scrap CAP and level the playing field, they actually have offered incentives to their own farmers as well of course as having no problem with farmers feeding their livestock growth promoters.
Let them go out of business then and direct their efforts towards something that will make them money. Both countries would benefit in the long run. All protectionism does is get a politician votes.
Ah yes let them go out of business, but you and the others will be on here complaining when, as stated earlier, you cannot get fresh milk, beef is stopped because of outbreak of food in mouth in Argentina and the prices increase due to shipping costs increasing over oil shortage.
Let the farmers go out of business, let the CO-OPs lay off half their workers, let the meat factory half it's staff, but will you then be complaining that you have to pay more income tax becuase of all the extra seeking umemployment benefit?
Or may be they can all get jobs in the great mythical service knowledge economy.
If anything we should be promoting and supporting local agriculture or maybe you don't see a problem with importing beef from South America, lamb or butter from New Zealand ?