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Big Agriculture’s Brexiteers are pulling the wool over our eyes

Big Agriculture wants wholesale deregulation, New Zealand-style – and is buying influence and positive news coverage to skew the debate.

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Image: We're being sold a post-Brexit picture of a bucolic utopia. The truth is rather different.

The European Union is, perhaps more than anything else, a farming union.

About 40% of its budget goes on the Common Agricultural Policy, which has guided food production and land use across the continent throughout a 55-year period which has been marked by changes in farming practice as great as any since the Neolithic revolution.