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Originally Posted by entwisi
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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It did cross my mind that the supermarkets have a big role in this, have we come to the stage were we are giving subsides, via farming to Tesco,Asda ect? I should have stated I was questioning subsides to farmers thoughout Europe and not just the UK, but I do feel that vast amounts of compensation paid would not have happened in any other business.