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"Mr President, give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will feed him for life.
EUR 250 million a year sounds a great deal of money, but divided between the 55 million under-14-year-olds at school in the EU it is worth EUR 4.5 per year per child, much of which will be absorbed by administrative costs. On a daily basis, this would give a child, for example, about a thimble-full of milk each school day and a sliver of an apple. In order for this to be meaningful, the Member States would have to co-finance by at least tenfold and, in that case, this whole subject should be within their control in the first place. The British pro-rata share of the milk side of this budget would be about GBP 10 million, which of course would cost the British taxpayer twice that.
I believe British taxpayers’ interests and British agriculture’s interest would be much better served if this cash stayed in the UK and was used to finance school trips to farms, which in turn could use this budget to provide facilities for visitors, including a classroom and a competent lecturer. Children should watch cows being milked and perhaps bottle-feed a calf. They should have the opportunity to pick some fruit and they should have the opportunity to ride safely on mobile vegetable-picking and packing rigs, observing people who really do understand what the word ‘work’ means. Now that would be an education!"@en1
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