the broader issue was the overall intent of the Common Agricultural Policy to do away with small producers of anything, which has now so completely succeeded after several decades that there are none left: even in a region where climate and soil easily permit market gardening, most of the vegetables sold through local retail outlets are trucked up from the unsustainable "industrial facilities" in southern Spain
One of the aims of the PAC was always stated to be "defence of the small farmer", which meant "drastically reduce the number of farmers".
Running big, productivist farms.
They call them "white fields" because the entire desert is covered in the white plastic of greenhouses. Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
