1. Food Chain Campaign – What’s CAP got to do with it???
FoEE meeting Monor May 2009
Friends of the Earth

2. Common Agricultural Policy
Nearly half of EU budget
Subsidies but also many other support measures
Significant influence on farming policy and practices
Set up in 60s for West European food security after the Second World War
Increase production
Maintain prices
Secure farmers incomes
Tariff system protects EU market

3. Feeding the Beast
Until 2005 subsidies ‘coupled’ to the production of livestock products overproduction
Price support for products like beef and milk intensive production
High prices for certain products without demand from local markets surplus
Export subsidies for industry dumping

4. Feeding the Beast CAP delivered cheap animal feed to factory farms
Large payments for cereal production and high tariffs on its import over production of cereals in the UK
Zero import tariffs on soy cheap protein from abroad (South America)

5. Feeding the Beast Structural overproduction & dumping
Mechanized, input-heavy and intensive
Environmental and social damage in EU and overseas

6. Feeding the Beast
Decoupling, Freeze budget, Less export subsidies…

7. Still Feeding the Beast
Payments still per hectare of land - big farms get most money
Historic payments - overproduction is rewarded
No environmental and social safeguards - hidden subsidy for intensive production
95% of UK CAP payments allow business as usual
Import controls affect production
Export subsidies still allow dumping

8. Buck the System – Fix the Food Chain!
£700 MILLION OF PUBLIC MONEY SPENT ON FACTORY FARMING EACH YEAR

9. Buck the system – Fix the Food Chain!!!

10. Buck the system – Fix the Food Chain!!!

11. Food Chain demands
Fund disadvantaged sustainable, extensive and grass-based meat and dairy – grassland premium
Incentives for home grown proteins – protein crop premium
Maximum support for farming that delivers on new challenges like climate change

12. Food Chain demands
Targeted support for farming that delivers for the environment and society
Measures to regulate the market to counter corporate pressure
Measures to match sustainable production with reduced demand for meat and dairy through awareness-raising programmes and public procurement policy
Other measures Eg. tough pollution controls so intensive livestock systems pay the costs of the damage they cause