The Death of British Agriculture

by North, Richard A. E.; Booker, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780715631447
• ISBN10: 0715631446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Duckworth Pub

Summary

Even before the foot and mouth epidemic British agriculture was already in its death throes. Struggling under the onslaught of successive crises - the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy and the bureaucratic demands of the EU; food scares from salmonella to BSE; the spread of intensive farming and the concentration of buying power in the hands of the retail giants - British farming has been brought to its knees. Who is to blame? The government, the farmers themselves, supermarkets, the CAP, the EU? In this very timely book Dr Richard North investigates the many causes of farming's imminent demise. His list of suspects is long, and his analysis pinpoints the guilty parties. There may just be a breath of life left in the corpse of British farming, but only if clear and successful policies covering land management, subsidies, government controls and how to deal with scares are formulated.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Prologue: Death and Destruction	p. 1
Introduction	p. 15
Danger - Maffia Killing Fields	p. 21
Enter the Reformers	p. 32
Murder on the Fontainebleau Express	p. 45
Red Tape and the Mad Officials	p. 60
The Deregulators	p. 76
Mad Scientists and 'Killer' Eggs	p. 91
Hysteria Rampant	p. 102
The Politics of Incompetence	p. 113
The Department of Stealth	p. 126
The European Disease	p. 140
The Integrationalists	p. 152
The Harmonisers	p. 164
The Global Power Broker	p. 179
Red Herrings That Don't Fly	p. 191
Quo Vadis?	p. 202
Joined-up Government	p. 212
Subsidise or Die	p. 225
Agricultural Support	p. 237
Better Regulation	p. 248
Dealing with Scares	p. 263
In Paradisum	p. 278
Notes	p. 283
Index	p. 291
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