Farm subsidies and price supports are what assure an abundant and stable food supply. If not for subsidies, too many farmers would be driven out of business during bountiful growing years when prices are depressed. The consequence would be food shortages and famine if that would be followed by a year of adverse growing conditions. In the short term, additional food sources could not be brought into production fast enough to alleviate the shortages.
The goal is to get Europe to drop it's farm subsidies, and equalize the playing field
Why should the "goal" be to undermine the stability of the European food supply?
Yes Nathan, by promoting such imbecilic and subversive policies, you really ARE a marxist.
undermine the stability of the Europeon food supply? HUH?
The market will take care of itself once all subsidies are dropped. In years of over production, subsidies keep the market prices inflated, which is counter to what capitalizm stands for, so watch who you call a marxist.
Canadians don't have subsidies, yet can outproduce any country in the grain and oil seed markets, which then gets American subsidized farmers crying "grain dumping", when it is in reality, the case of one producer out producing the other at cheaper input costs.
Subsidies do not help maintain agriculture, it slowly erodes it by masking true market value, real cost input.
Drop the subsidies, and the true input costs of farmers with stabilize and set market prices at realistic values, and allow farmers a more fair return and profit margin.