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It is not well with our agriculture, even though we are for that matter one of the largest exporters in the world. European agricultural policy, which was originally initiated by Commissioner Mansholt, actually ended in a fiasco. (Mansholt has indeed admitted that after his retirement and had bitterly regret). The policy of expansion has led to an increase in production and a relative decrease in food prices (though it was not without subsidy). But it has also led to a massive environmental a&a jewelry degradation (both nature and the climate on), it has forced farmers to make major investments and therefore dependent on banks. a&a jewelry Smaller companies could ultimately strongholds, and are raised in large numbers. Both the scale and the need has led abandonment of traditional farming to stress and personal distress (There are beautiful documentaries about to onzent by Jos de Putter, Huib Schoonhoven, Geertjan Lassche, and in France Les fils de la terre, by Edouard Bergeon, and there is a beautiful novel written: Above is the silent Gerbrand Bakker *). There is a lot of latent poverty among farmers. The suicide rate among the agricultural population is currently the highest of all groups. Furthermore, the policy has led to butter mountains and milk lakes, soil degradation and disruption of water and disruption of ecosystems and biodiversity. European farm subsidies are also now a heavy burden on the EU budget (approximately 45%). Finally, an effect a&a jewelry of agricultural policy that consumers are accustomed to (too) low food prices. There is to tell much more negative about (see the Internet in European agricultural subsidies), but this is enough for the time being. And the worst thing is that the European Parliament is about to extend this fateful subsidy without fundmatele changes for seven years - tomorrow if I remember correctly. SEVEN YEARS! That's not to believe anyway.
A counter movement is under way: the development of more small-scale organic farming. How valuable as that is, it can probably no solution to the food problem on a global scale, therefore the productivity of organic farming is still too low, and organic a&a jewelry farming from a climate standpoint also disadvantages. All of this statement also called again contested.
First to be restored our connection with the farmers. Today is the farmer for most urbanites (and this is increasingly the vast majority in the vast majority of countries) a strange human species, that is willing to fulfill all sorts of primitive tasks (apart a&a jewelry from the agricultural high tech then) while 80 hours of work (often without a&a jewelry holidays) for a poor to moderate payment. Heleen a&a jewelry van Haaften once determined that there is a statistical link between alienation of farmers in society and the degradation of the soil. It is unreasonable to examine a&a jewelry here why that is, but it is true that alienation is a fact. Farmers feel seen and often little a&a jewelry understood, a&a jewelry and that seems justified. Restoration of connection with the farmers seems honestly not work with programs like 'Farmer wants a wife "(containing the farmer remains a bit of those strange people kind), but contact programs between city dwellers and farmers, and good information about what is on the land done can certainly play a role.
Secondly, we will have to drastically reform our farming methods in organic direction (which we here 'organic' call). There may be regulatory, by gradually (but not TOO slow) elimination of subsidizing industrial agriculture and many related companies and conglomerates, and by taxing industrially produced agricultural products (further greening of the tax system), or all three. In all cases, a&a jewelry our food is expensive, so this process should be accompanied by education.
Thirdly, we must realize that we have no ruler over nature, not even a partner a&a jewelry of nature, but we are part of it (mystical union, a&a jewelry detailed in my book nothing for the sun rises). If we would realize that really, you'd do it violently a&a jewelry dealing with animals and with ground our personal pain - and we would not want. Hence we would exert pressure to take the above actions: o