>In 2007 in response to a parliamentary written question the UK government revealed that over the preceding year the EU Public Stock had amassed "13,476,812 tonnes of cereal, rice, sugar and milk products and 3,529,002 hectolitres of alcohol/wine", although the EU has claimed this level of oversupply is unlikely to be repeated.
Why are European farmers allowed to do this?
because its business and they arent charity so they save it to sell later for more
french autism
But it's the EU that buys crap no one wants to buy from the farmers
this
don't underestimate us
>Why are European farmers allowed to do this?
Supply and demand are hard to pinpoint, you're always going to overproduce or underproduce to a certain extent. Socialists try to "fix" this by focusing on the demand side of the economy rather than the supply side, but socialism always fails.
Because the European Union has a vested political and strategic interested to be self-sufficient when it comes to food production. This will never changer.
Do what?
Produce dumb shit no one wants
because we have to allow french farmers to get their subsidies for useless production while others have limit their productiob ;3
same thing? with added benefit to european farmers
I don't want my tax money to be used because dumb farmers made too many carrots like the retards they are
Nobody likes it and they are phasing it out. Literally only farmers and their cronies (Christian parties) defend it.
>mfw despite this huge over-supply the french farmers are still not competitive enought
>mfw I eat spanish oranges, portugese strawberries and italian olives
Fuck "muh local production". French farmers are absolute cunts who only cares about gibs. The only good french farmers are those who bothered to do heavy investments to change to organic production, and today they're the only one who are viable and actually pay taxes.
spanish persimmons are pretty good desu
fruits grown in europe taste like a dog's shat in your mouth
>Fuck "muh local production". French farmers are absolute cunts who only cares about gibs. The only good french farmers are those who bothered to do heavy investments to change to organic production, and today they're the only one who are viable and actually pay taxes.
It's even worse over here. It's one giant subsidy machine and farmers have the biggest mouths when it comes to unemployed people, students and government employees.
that's interesting, i thought dutch farming was super high tech and all about muh efficiency
maybe don't eat dog's shat before eating fruits grown in europe next time
i'm poorthern if a dog shat in my mouth i'd probably think it were haute cuisine
This.
I explicitely avoid buying shit from bretons and Normands so they kill themselves faster. High-quality products all the way.
It's essentially subsidizing farmers so that when you actually need them, they haven't gone out of business. We do it too....except for the alcohol
How do you know the taste of dog shit mate ?
desu i've tried cat shit coffee in bali before
because i tried french apples once
I have no doubt that dutch farmers are fucking cunts, but I do not think that they can be worse than the french. The french farmers are a dead weight on the country, they eat up subsidies like never and keep doing an inefficient, useless agriculture that pollutes the soil and over-produces, then they cry on national TV that they can make ends meet. Regularily they'll block highways before huge cities with their fucking tractors, or attack italian/spanish/german trucks that are carrying foreign fruits or meat because every frenchman would rather not buy his fruits over-expensive.
As I said the only french farmers that are productive today are those who make organic agriculture ; But they bothered to do investments and change their practicies in the 90s. Meanwhile our shitty french farmers keep spreading glyphosate everywhere while right-wing parties and christian farmer unions cry about "muh traditionalism, cities are destroying rural areas !".
10% of it is, and they produce as much as the 90% 'traditional' farmers that only care about driving their John Deere around town.
food is a vital strategical good
farmers are based and they know whats the best for france
faggots like you eat only soy and semen
T. Tractor Boy
Fuck off. Farmers are shit and only exist as a voting block and nothing else. This is why French politicians are so obsessed with the CAP (supposedly De Gaulle walked out of an EG meeting and refused to return until the CAP was guaranteed) because any politician that moves away from subsidizing them is guaranteed to lose the next elections. They're effectively an electoral maffia.
t, ustahse from Eszék
Its in integral part of british cuisine.
anyone wanna buy some corn?
It's the same shit everywhere, farmers produce shit just to throw it back onto their soil so food prices stay low due to high supply. Then they bitch and moan after a natural disaster that the shit nobody would've bought anyway got destroyed by a storm or flood.
I think we're in one of the worst situations here because our farmers are so small in scale compared to Germany or Denmark or Netherlands and most would simply be too dumb to be a real entrepreneur.
Just why can't we mass produce opium and sell it to silly asians?
You Americans have no choice, given EVERYTHING is pumped full of high fructose corn syrup due to the corn lobby.
A lot of it is used for animal feed. Also you can easily find things with sugar.
they exist to feed ungrateful little city boys like you
Not really. Purely for the sake of "feeding cityboys", the free market would be sufficient. "Cityboys" won't buy what they don't need and they shouldn't be forced at gunpoint to pay for it either. If governments are so concerned about "muh self-sufficiency", foreign tarriffs should suffice.
If farmers give people what they want they don't need to be subsidized