The Germans and their food – a “schizophrenic” behavior .
Here it was not last night, who died in 2000, Josef Ertl participate in the discussion with Günther Jauch. The FDP politician would have loved determined over the election results in Bremen. Above all, he was in his time as a Federal Minister of Agriculture (1969-1983) the leading expert on milk lakes and butter mountains in the then EEC. These had then tried state control to ensure the food in the Member States -. And farmers a decent income
This was done primarily with intervention prices for market regulation. The EU bought milk on to stop the fall in prices, and pitched a peasant overproduction. She sold them then at bargain prices on the world market or even destroyed them. Both was considered a scandal in the European agricultural policy. Many farmers had used the way, nothing. They gave their farms and become aware of the trend toward large-scale industrial operation had been unstoppable.
“schizophrenia of the consumer”
In fact, the idyll of the family farm is only to be found in children’s books, but at least even where the woman now travels executor. Unfortunately, even in the imagination of many consumers that are older than six. In otherwise made three months ago Willi Schillings under the pseudonym “Bauer Willi ‘attention. The trigger was the absence of that state control, the farmers secure guaranteed prices. Or how else can it be that a farmer in the market for one kilogram of potatoes actually delivered a penny?
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Schillings complained “schizophrenia” of the consumer, the true quality food would, but not in Germany was willing to pay for something. This reproach is aimed primarily against the oligopoly in the German food retail, where a few suppliers, prices for agricultural products continued with its dominant position systematically under pressure. This position represented approximately journalist Tanja buses or Timo Wessels, the earlier one would undoubtedly designated by his 530 dairy cows as Brandenburger big landowners. While no one wanted to have the priceless intervention price system from Ertl times. Just how do you actually otherwise enforce minimum prices in agriculture?
“regionalization” and “organic farming”
This question unfortunately no one could answer, not even a successor in office of Ertl’s Agriculture Minister Renate Künast as (Green). Their responses can be summarized “organic farming” with the terms “regionalization” and. You hear now for 20 years, but this has remained still limited to a niche in the food retail industry. Why this is so, it was made clear by the guests who understand agriculture as an “Agro-business” and have little idyll with the hat. The marketing professor Thomas Roeb defended the oligopoly in the German food retail, but could see professors of competition policy certainly different.
© dpa “Schizophrenia” to the consumer, although the quality food wanted, but was not prepared in Germany, to pay for something.
“Schizophrenia” to the consumer, Although the high quality food would, but was not prepared in Germany, to pay for something.
Taking advantage of a market-dominant position is in fact deplored by farmers for years, but has never yet led to any political reaction. This complaint of the oligopolists is incidentally also otherwise by the producers of the food industry who process the raw peasant. Oddly, it was the ham producers Jürgen Abraham no question of looking at the pricing in the food market as a success. Only part of his company now even a meat-United Group, which in turn is controlled by a major Swiss trading group. The little idyllic oligopolisation the market today permeates the entire value chain: from the farmer about the food producers to retailers. Everyone tries of market power to oppose something through organic growth.
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