Meat is so heavily subsidized it is cheap af.
German agriculture either needs a extremely green or an extremely capitalistic revolution. Sadly the green party is just talk and no actions. Farmers currently only make a profit because it is subsidized.
The state could just give the money to poor people instead and let them buy food at its real price.
The current state just sucks.
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@khaosgrille well, as long as the EU funding is coupled to bigger is better nothing will change. soil ruining practice is too profitable for the big agrocompanies, and likely the only way for the few remaining small farms to survive. even if they want to change to sustainable models, the change does cost money to get things going.
just letting the market fix things doesn't work anymore at this point as the agrocompanies got too big due to the broken funding model.
maybe things will just fix themselves in the coming cold hungry winter UwU
@bonifartius
A few years ago, I had a chat with the farmer next door (nearest neighbor) about EU. First off, he said that the subsidies in Sweden disappeared in the 1980s/90s and everything got balanced by the time Sweden joined EU. Then he got subsidies back, but lost power over sales prices. He was basically against subsidies, and what is happening is Big Subsidies to corporations, and very Small subsidies to family farmers. So they are closing shop en masse now.
@khaosgrille
