Re: its a rip off
The reason they got compensation during F&M was that the goverment were destroying their animals even without any proof of any actual infection. It was a way of managing the spread of the disese.
As for why sunsidies are paid it is as others have said, we put pressure on teh supermarkets to lower prices who in turn have to lower their costs, this leads to cheaper imports as our farmers cannot grow the crops that cheap due to having to pay minimum wages etc where abroad there is no such thing.
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