Scare-mongering over the EU's 'green agenda' was started by industry

so that intensive farming can continue to receive subsidies, make $billions and carry on polluting with impunity

The Green Deal is being held over the EU like the Sword of Damocles. It hasn’t actually been accepted, let alone implemented; it is still entirely in the proposal stage containing basic outlines and policies which will no doubt be abandoned as unworkable vote losers as they have been in the UK. Ideas include; insulation, better plant varieties with better yields, using GMOs and cutting down on waste. Nothing that would actually make much difference to the climate crisis and nothing about banning neither animal ag nor intensive farming.

Admittedly nitrogen targets mean that some farmers in areas of concentrated livestock production will have to adapt (though the world doesn’t need and would be better off without the dairy industry in it’s entirety), there is no job for life, get over it, but the Green Deal is being framed by industry as an evil agenda to starve and bankrupt the entire EU.

Farmers, like always, are price squeezed between giant agrochemical cartels and the supermarkets. The proxy war allowed cheap grain from Ukraine to enter the market. And Russia, who every one seems to hate, is taking over market share. No wonder farmers are unhappy.

But any policy, even if misguided, that is attempting to protect the planet is not the bad guy here. The bad guys are the giant farming industries. They are not only subsidised and making massive profits but they’re also allowed to poison the soil and water without having to pay for the damage and clean up.

It’s pretty dumb for the EU to continue with public spending austerity, which causes inflation, recession and environmental damage, all the while enriching the 1%, instead of public and green investment.

It is also pretty dumb for the developed countries to be spitting out the dummy and opposing policies that protect their own neighbourhoods because they don’t like incompetent Ursula, or are true believers in the enslavement and depopulation by Davos hoax or because previously colonised or neo-colonised countries are undercutting their prices.

Yes, developing countries are not so regulated. However, the reason that they are still developing is due to years of suppression and exploitation by Europe and the US. It’s churlish to try to out compete them in cheap but dirty produce.

Better to sensibly regulate the power of the agrochemical/animal ag/pharma industry, who should not have a free pass to pollute any country, than to petulantly abandon policies that protect the planet and its inhabitants but harm industry profits.

Otherwise the whole world, which includes us, will suffer.

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