There is more to this than just food, per se. Farm incomes have been supported through the product price. There are now other elements that are becoming more important. One of these is the environmental element, which has been partially dealt with in REPS. Increasingly, European society is asking farmers to be the custodians of the countryside and the environment, which is as it should be. If they are to succeed in this they have to be supported, in the same way as the price of the product has been supported in the past.