Agribusiness: Farming Subsidies Destroy Food

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Health Supreme Update: Agribusiness: Farming Subsidies

Destroy Food Security

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Health Supreme Update: Agribusiness: Farming Subsidies Destroy Food

Security

 

July 07, 2005

 

 

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The European " Common Agricultural Policy " and its related

monster, US grain and meat export subsidies, have been a cancer

on our food production pathways, eating into food quality by

stimulating industrial scale production that depletes the

earth's mineral wealth. Even more importantly, these policies

are driving large numbers of our small farmers off their farms

which have, for thousands of years, been the mainstay of food

production and have provided relative food security. Today,

farmers are paid either to NOT produce, or are given subsidies

even when overall production of a commodity, like milk, exceeds

demand. Foods get imported and exported for no other reason

than to obtain the subsidies...

 

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