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"When food is produced on the basis of the profit criterion rather than to satisfy grassroots requirements and the production and sale of food are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands and are determined by food multinationals and cartels (choices which characterise the policy of the EU and of the governments of the Member States), then food can be neither cheap nor of good quality.
The supposed return to quality food is not intended to increase farmers’ incomes or satisfy grassroots requirements. It is intended to increase the competitiveness and profits of the multinationals, to increase the exploitation of rural manpower, to concentrate land ownership even further and to control production.
The introduction and cultivation of GMOs and the series of food scandals show that the quality and safety of food in the EU are subordinate to the interests of big business.
The classification of food on the basis of quality is food differentiation on the basis of class in keeping with the market rationale’ first-class food for high incomes and second-class food for working class families.
Farmers of small and medium-sized holdings have every interest in opposing the CAP and the EU and their being sold off to big business, as well as in joining the Greek Communist Party and the Workers’ Rally, the workers and the self-employed in the social alliance, to overturn the sovereignty and power of the monopolies."@en1
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