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More and more details are unveiled about price agreements for potatoes and onions. The gaint players have re-introduced their own type of planned economy to the market. If the accusations prove to be correct, they have controlled the entire market and have reaped profits with price agreements of up to ten times as high as they should have been – all on the backs of farmers and consumers. Read more

Copa-Cogeca (an association of farmers and their coops in the EU) along with other stakeholders (economic partners) have expressed their position regarding the package of measures by the EU Commission which is supposed to strengthen animal and plant health in the Union. Read more

For consumers one of the most chilling terms in the food sector is “intensive livestock breeding” Has factory farming become a “no no” or is it the future of agriculture? Is it inevitable that animals suffer in large agricultural enterprises? In April the German television broadcaster WDR aired a report dealing with this issue in its regular programme Gegen den Strich (against the grain). Read more

Hobby gardeners as well as farmers deal with seed in dark corners. Seed for types of fruit which they would like to conserve and for which there are consumers, but…the fruits are forbidden. The fear to get caught is written in their faces. This is a scenario which could become real if the new laws conceived by the European Union would be instituted. Although it sounds like an April fool’s joke. Read more

Her name is Ornella, her name is music to the ears, she has dark eyes, well-shaped legs and not a pound too much around the waiste. No, we are not talking about the Playmate of the current edition of a well-known magazine. We are talking of the most beautiful cow of 2013. Ornella beat more than 150 competitors from Saxony and Lower Saxony in the “Pageant of the Best” in Vreden in Lower Saxony in February 2013. Read more

In the third part of our small series about speculation with food we will show how the media handles the controversial and hotly discussed topic. Read more