Instead of supporting farmers directly, we support them mainly through a price support system that is totally inappropriate and it is obvious to any independent economist that this system does not benefit anybody. It certainly does not benefit the consumers who buy the food. It does not benefit farmers either because, despite what it may have done in the past, the Common Agricultural Policy fails to provide a proper living to most European farmers. We heard about some aspects of that today. Falling incomes have driven more and more people off the land – referred to my many speakers – and instead have encouraged large scale, more intensive farming that produces commodities of often dubious quality. I say that as somebody who knows the difficulty involved in getting top quality food on occasions. A total of 80% of all EU subsidies go to 20% of farmers, in other words, they go to the big farmers.