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For my own opinions, if you'd like to hear more, you can just ask me. I will only provide the citation as a one-off... <https://www.britannica.com/topic/agricu
by CarpaDorada 2y ago
For my own opinions, if you'd like to hear more, you can just ask me.
I will only provide the citation as a one-off...
<https://www.britannica.com/topic/agriculture/Economics-politics-and-agriculture https://www.britannica.com/topic/agriculture/Economics-polit...>:
>Agriculture has always been influenced by the actions of governments around the world. Never has this been more evident than during the first half of the 20th century, when two major wars profoundly disrupted food production. In response to the tumultuous economic climate, European countries implemented tariffs and other measures to protect local agriculture. ---Rasmussen, Wayne D. , Mellanby, Kenneth , Nair, Kusum , Gray, Alic William , Ordish, George , Crawford, Gary W. and Fussell, George Edwin. "origins of agriculture". Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Oct. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/topic/agriculture https://www.britannica.com/topic/agriculture. Accessed 30 October 2024.
This puts it in the context of WW2.
Here's one example where you find the opposite of "protections" at play: in the US you need prescriptions for antibiotics, in EU 7% is without. <https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/sante/newsletter-archives/4487 https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/sante/newsletter-archives/4487> (their PDF link is broken; one that works is <https://health.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2020-06/amr_arna_report_20170717_en_0.pdf https://health.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2020-06/amr_arna_re...> "Antimicrobial resistance and causes of non-prudent use of antibiotics in human medicine in the EU" (2017)) Here's their Figure 2.6 e.g. <https://imgur.com/a/wLfoV7h https://imgur.com/a/wLfoV7h>.
- razakel 2y agoOr it could be that people don't want to eat poison. You only have to look at the furore over chlorine-washed chicken post-Brexit to see that.