Cheap food - at a huge price

Article Abstract:

Supermarkets promote themselves as offering convenience, high quality and a wide choice, knowing that these are factors which will attract customers. However, they are guilty of deception by offering certain everday items at very low prices but then charging high mark-ups on other items for which the customer is less likely to be aware of the price. Supermarkets are also poor value for society in other ways, especially for people who do not have their own transport. They contribute to environmental problems too, as they force suppliers to move towards mass industrialised processes and thus discourage biodiversity.

Social aspects, Supermarkets

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Free trade? We all need protection

Article Abstract:

The free trade theory was based on sovereign states, but in 1993 there is little national management of the movement of capital. Multi-national corporations control 70% of world trade. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) Uruguay Round caused anticipation of about 300,000 new jobs in the UK, but unemployment in OECD countries is expected to reach 36 million by 1994. Free trade has caused the loss of many jobs and small companies and extended the gap between rich and poor countries. New Protectionism calls for the three Es of the 21st century: economy, environment and equity.

United Kingdom, Economic aspects, Commercial treaties, Trade agreements, Protectionism

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Can British farming go green?

Article Abstract:

It is widely believed that abandoning modern farming methods would herald a return to problems with pests and poor soil fertility. However, there are actually strong economic arguments for shifting to organic methods of farming where hormones, pesticides and chemicals would not be used. It has already been proved that organic production can be viable, and there is currently a strong shift in this direction in continental Europe.

Column, Organic farming

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