Spend better, not less

In an article on the Guardian's Comment Is Free website, executive director of the Food Ethics Council, Tom MacMillan, discusses some current ideas about reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Tom says, "we spend more each week on farm subsidies than on fruit and veg. The payouts hurt the climate, people in poorer countries, wildlife and probably our health." But, he says, we shouldn't scrap the CAP - we should spend better, not less.

The Autumn '07 issue of Food Ethics, the Food Ethics Council's quarterly magazine, takes a comprehensive look at what campaigners, politicians and NGO's are positing as the best way forward for CAP reform.

The article is available in full at www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree