food mountain

We are all well aware of the scare stories and food mountain stories.

The whole point of those reforms was to get rid of the food mountains.

With the EC spending two-thirds of its budget on agriculture, the food mountains continue to grow.

The food mountains now looked unscaleable.

He described the obese Nicholas Soames as "a one-man food mountain".

He knows this and I know he is in favour of persuading Member States to do something about the food mountains that we create.

The majority of miners and their families had to survive the strike on handouts, donations from the European Economic Community's "food mountain" and charities.

We are back to food mountains at great cost to EU tax payers - back to the bad old days - and none of us want to see that.

When we joined the EEC in the Seventies, farmers became associated with greed, and "hand-outs", and the obscenity of food mountains.

Lester Brown, the head of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, DC, calls the food mountains of the 1980s a 'temporary aberration' which will soon run out.

Such a policy of extensification would avoid food mountains and ensure that our land was properly looked after by farmers who want to work and who expect a reasonable return for their efforts.

David Gee, Director of Friends of the Earth, has commented that"MAFF has steered agriculture into three crises - food mountains, falling farm incomes and nitrate pollution.

The chaotic policy of subsidies has also led to the scandal of vast food mountains which taxpayers have to foot the bill to store - and which are then dumped at cut price on the world market.

But concern that this report suggests that in general across the EU the forestry aid programme has not led to major changes, namely planting trees instead of yet more crops to add to Europe's food mountains.

It is also extending its horizons: introducing the latest annual report, Blundell spoke of the opportunities of trying to feed the world's expanding population instead of concentrating on parochial matters like European food mountains.

Why has the image of farming gone from one where the farmer was respected as the provider of food for the nation to one where he gets enormous subsidies to produce food mountains and is a burden on the taxpayer?

The Belgian minister had agreed to allow the creation of an amalgamation of charities that would distribute food mountains to starving areas - but the man he had gullibly entrusted with the task was a crook, now facing trial.

THE majority of farmers have done so much to ensure quality food, a healthy environment, a beautiful countryside and the welfare of their animals, yet too often, they are still viewed as the people who make a handsome profit producing food mountains and destroying the environment.

It was announced on Dec. 11 that the value of the so-called "food mountain", the buffer intervention stocks maintained by EC agencies to maintain prices, had been reduced from 4,660 million ECU to only 1,600 million ECU in the year ended September 1989.