New (Old) European Agriculture\u27s Problems

Autor uzrok strepnje siromašnog dijela čovječanstva od gladi i straha razvijenog svijeta od po zdravlje opasnih namirnica prepoznaje u industrijskom načinu proizvodnje hrane. Obradio je ulogu agrobiznisa, Svjetske trgovinske organizacije i seljačkih saveza europskih zemalja, te agrarnu politiku Europske unije, a prikazao i neke kontraverze. Nakon konstatacije probitaka industrijskoga načina proizvodnje hrane (niske i stabilne cijene te bogatstvo prehrambenih proizvoda) sa stajališta rizika za zdravlje (i to bezobzirnosti za zdravlje ljudi te bezobzirnosti i okrutnosti prema životinjama), temeljem analiza u novinskim i elektronskim medijima i znanstvenoj literaturi posebice je prikazao: krizu belgijskih uzgajivača peradi izazvanu dioksinom (ravnu propasti 14.000 tvornica); nesagledivost šteta od spongiformne encefalopatije goveda (“kravljeg ludila”) zbog uporabe hrane animalnog podrijetla u ishrani biljoždera; konzekvence primjene ilegalnih hormona i legalnih antibiotika u obrocima hrane po zdravlje životinja; kritiku intenzivnog uzgoja (tov velikih koncentracija životinja u malom prostoru kako bi se postigao što veći prirast, itd.); kontaminaciju otpadnim tvarima - zagađivanje okoliša s gnojem, nitratima i drugim polutantima, te pogubnost genetski modificiranih organizama i terminatora tehnologija. U rad su uvrštene reakcije seljačkih saveza i javnosti, pristup i odnos vlada pojedinih zemalja i Europske unije spram nekih pitanja. Seljaci, za koje više nema mjesta u takvom načinu proizvodnje hrane, drže kako je intenzivna poljoprivreda došla do svojih krajnjih granica i da ni vlade ni Europska unija nisu dovoljno učinkoviti, da su štetne posljedice izazvane interesima povećanja profita agrobiznisa (primjerice, proizvođača stočne hrane animalnog podrijetla i njihovih saveznika - klaonica) te farmaceutskih kompanija. toThe author recognizes the cause of concern from hunger for poor the part of mankind and the cause of fear from health risky food in development countries, in the industrial way of food production. The author - on the basis of analysis published in the newspapers and electronic media, magazines and scientific literature - describes the role of agri-business, World Trade Organization and european countries peasants’ (farmers’) federations, as well as agricultural politics of European Union, and presents some controversies. Firstly, he has noted the benefits of the industrial food production (low and stable prices, as well as rich supply with means of living) from the health-risk standpoint (disregard for the health of people and disregard and cruelty towards animals), he describes especially: the crisis of Belgian poultry-breeders caused with dioxin (whichs equals the bankrupcy of 14.000 factories); unforeseeable damages by the Encephalitis Spongioformae Bovis (“cow madness ) caused by feeding the herbivorous animals with food of animal origin; consequences the application of ilegal hormons and legal antibiotics in food has on the health of animals; criticism of intensive breeding (fattening of big concentration of animals in small space in order to achieve as big augmentation as possible, etc.); problems of environment polution with manure, nitrats and other polutants, and danger (jeopardy) from genetically modified organisms and technology terminators. Peasants’ unions and public reactions, approach and relations by governements of some countries and European Union towards specific questions are included in the article. Peasants, for whom there is no more place in such food-production, consider the intensive agriculture to have reached its extreme limits and that nor govemmets neither the European Union are effective enough, that the dangerous consequences caused by the interests of agri-business (e.g., those of food-producers for animals with animal origins ingredients and their allies - slaughter-houses) as well as of pharmaceuticals for profit increasing