‘20th-century food policies are threatening our farming industry’

Europe’s Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel was given a stark warning on the 28 April 2008 that EU food security could be severely threatened by the outdated principles underpinning Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks.

The warning came during a visit by the Commissioner to Farmers’ Union of Walers member Edward Jones and his family’s Brocastle Farm, near Bridgend, where vast increases in feed and energy costs have undermined recent improvements in milk and livestock prices amid growing concerns over the potential impact of the CAP Health Check and the WTO Doha negotiations.

• Primary Source

FUW: Press Release, 28.4.08: FUW warns EU Farm Commissioner of food security threat http://www.fuw.org.uk/press_releases/eng_press_releases_057.htm

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