With Günther Jauch it comes to the question of whether our food is too cheap. When it comes to Bauer Willi Schilling is the answer to this question is a resounding “yes”. It provides all the consumers in the duty. But the situation is not quite so clear how the farmer it might like to have.
“Today I have so fed up.” So turned to the North Rhine-Westphalian farmer Willi Schillings to the “dear consumer” earlier this year. In an open letter to the farmer wrote his frustration of the soul: “You, dear consumer,” complains Schillings, “but want only one thing: cheap. And then also claims make! Your food should be Genfrei, gluten free, lactose free, cholesterol free, low in calories (or better yet calorie-free?), Not fertilized and if possible, then organic. But it should not stink too, and if it is fertilized organically, at least not with you. May be injected there of course, but needs to look great, no stains. But little quirks are off, you let it be, “He continued:”. You have no idea, and it very much. Are you aware that we farmers have to live by our own hands “
” This is sick “
The lament of the farmer – more than 300,000 times the letter has already been called – grabbed Günther Jauch in his mission to: “The anger of the farmers – are our food too cheap ?, was the question that discussed the talk show host and his guests. In Jauch Bauer Schillings must tell again how it came to his outburst. His neighbor had recently his potatoes sell for a dime per kilogram
“That’s sick,” says Schilling. Consumers are schizophrenic, he grumbles. As citizens, they were concerned about the treatment of animals and the protection of the environment. As consumers, they went to the discounters and bought as cheaply produced food.
The dilemma of dairy farmers
Are consumers really to blame? So easy it is probably not. This makes the discussion in Jauch pretty clearly. How complex and sometimes difficult to understand agricultural production work, gives an example of the Brandenburg dairy farmer Timo Wessels. The studio guest complains bitterly about constantly falling milk prices, which he barely allowed to cover its costs. And what makes Bauer Wessels?
It creates more and more cows. For economic reasons, he explains. “The only way I can tilt each purchase more and more milk,” says Wessels. He is doomed to grow, although he thus continue to milk Increase the supply and prices press
criticism of the peasants. Your wirtschaftet as in the 70s
Former Aldi Manager Thomas Roeb blames then also closer to the farmers. “They have modern tractors and smartphones, but in the way they do business, such as the size of their farms, they are stopped in the 70s.” The price-performance ratio of our food is fine, “says Jürgen Abraham, a former ham producer.
He registered a trend towards more quality. The customers would care more and more about how the food would be produced, says Abraham. “That’s a good thing.” At the low prices he also gives the farmers blame. They would, for example, produce too much milk. This they did then about their marketing cooperatives sell cheap.
cows as “Hochleistungsmilchprodzenten”
The journalist Tanja Busse sees the problem, however in the excessive power of the manufacturers. She recalls a recent antitrust proceedings against several meat processing companies that have agreed on the purchase price. “There seems to be a possibility that producers decide how much they want to earn,” says Busse. In addition, buses keeps many farms are too big. “Anyone who has about 500 cows, the animals can no longer bring to the pasture,” says Busse. The animals would be kept as a “high-performance milk producers” in the stable and collapsed there after two years. “Such milk do not want the consumer,” says Busse.
Green politician Renate Künast criticized an imbalance in the entire structure of agricultural production. The start already with the question as to which fertilizer will used (mostly toxic and polluting, says Künast), set up under the pressure of food markets on producers continued. “At the end it is the consumer out behind the fir,” said Künast. “He thinks he is buying cheap food and then have to pay taxes in order to repair the damage from agriculture.”
The Truth: foods are
What the mission well done increasingly expensive would have had a few more facts. Bauer Schillings complaint about the ever cheaper prices can be explained by a glance at the statistics namely not prove. On the contrary, food prices have risen much faster in recent years than the total inflation. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office at the beginning of the year announced that the Germans had to pay for food in 2014 11.5 percent more than of 2010.
The overall prices rose during this period only by 6.6 percent. Compared to 2010, the consumer had to last year mainly for dairy products (plus 19.5 percent), fruit (plus 16.8) and edible fats and oils (plus 15.1) pay considerably more. From because cheap, so
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