Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "How Europe Is Ruining Agriculture [And How to Fix It]" video.
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The bond option is nonsense. We need more farmers in the EU, because, already, larger farming conglomerates have way too much power over price of their products (on top of getting subsidies). If a farmer is permitted to leave his farm, who's gonna take over? Yes, the big firms. This is nonsense, really.
No, what we need, are different kinds of subsidies, that target different aspects of farming and forestry (frankly, I believe, that it is inevitable, that these two will merge, given they both deal with land and current ecological bias in politics). We need subsidies for reforestation, land adaptation, machinery purchases and development of up the value chain projects (a farm growing cows for milk to be able to make milk products, or to tan the leather they get from their cows upon slaughter and process it all the way into shoes or car seats, etc.). All else needs to go. And then, we need to change the environment, that we operate in. Louis Rossmann has beaten the horse of right to repair to the death multiple times already, but we need to make machinery self repairable and simpler to operate (I'm looking at you John Deer, I'm looking at you!). We also need to end current system of patents on crops. Because of them, if you seed crops, you can't make your own new seed out of your own harvest, because some company holds the patent to that DNA! Crazy! And finally, if somebody decides to become a farmer, he/she needs assurances, that if things go sideways, they won't end up on the streets, as well, that when they need a loan for something, they won't get refused in the beginnings, because they have nothing to show for them selves for now.
And finally, animal cruelty laws need to be revisited, for they have overreached into normal practices, sometimes, even because they were not particularly cruel, but they seemed as such.
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