SIR – Maureen Wakelin makes some good points on ‘Food price misery’ (Letters, April 22).
I would suggest one of the biggest contributors to high food prices must be the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which basically deters cheaper imports of food from outside the EU with a system of import tariffs. The CAP also seeks to control production by setting quotas on how much a farmer can produce, then paying them not to produce more; this allows the EU to control how much food is produced and therefore control how expensive it is.
The fact that countries like France seem to be earmarked as EU ‘farming’ regions works well from an EU perspective, as it creates more interdependency between member states, but I would suggest it further threatens our future food supply as we become ever more reliant on food from abroad.
Jason Smith, UKIP Bradford chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury, Bradford
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