RE: French farmers feeding human sewage to livestock

Hayo van der Werf (derwerf@roazhon.inra.fr)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:30:04 +0200

A 23:05 25/10/99 +0100, vous avez écrit :
>On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:12:42 -0400, Hal Hamilton wrote:
>
>*Now,* I'll stir up the real hornet's nest, so don't anybody think I
>accidentally whacked it, somehow believing it was a pin~ata .... (-:
>
>
>The French farmers you so enthusiastically laud are in essence
>advocating a system of subsidies that would effectively relegate them
>to the status of exhibits in some kind of a social zoo, forever paid to
>produce mountains of butter, cheese, wine, meat and pastry wheat that
>cannot be sold, except to perpetually expanding government storehouses.
>

Cher Bart,

Obviously you do not really know the facts. In the past the system of
subsidies in the European Union was linked to production, and it caused
overproduction of many products. Currently the move is toward payments not
linked to production but to farmed area and environmental performance. The
idea is that these subsidies will provide for functions other than the
production of food and fibres, so for things such as improvement or
maintenance of landscape quality and water quality, employment in rural
zones, maintenance of family farms etc.

You seem to think that the market forces should take care of every thing
and subsidy is always bad. Well, that is a point of view, but don't twist
the fact in trying to defend your point of view.

Cordialement,

Hayo van der Werf
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