{"id":1779,"date":"2009-02-17T11:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T10:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2009\/02\/17\/susidies-in-action\/"},"modified":"2009-02-17T11:29:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T10:29:50","slug":"susidies-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Subsidies in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From blogoir I discovered this cool site trying to throw light on EU farm &amp; <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agricultural_subsidy\" title=\"Agricultural subsidy\" rel=\"wikipedia\">agricultural subsidies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For instance in the UK the average direct aid per farm worker is \u20ac9,236 and each hectare of farm land gets \u20ac210. Huge companies also have their snout in the trough e.g.&nbsp; Tate &amp; Lyle Europe receives an annual subsidy of over \u00a3120 million! Tate &amp; Lyle is a company with annual turnover of over \u00a33 billion and profits of \u00a3300m<\/p>\n<p>I also see from the cabinet office that Tate &amp; Lyle took <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Bender\" title=\"Brian Bender\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Sir Brian Bender<\/a> &amp; his wife to Wimbledon too &#8211; must be to sample their sugar on the strawberries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by ScribeFire.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From blogoir I discovered this cool site trying to throw light on EU farm &amp; agricultural subsidies. For instance in the UK the average direct aid per farm worker is \u20ac9,236 and each hectare of farm land gets \u20ac210. Huge companies also have their snout in the trough e.g.&nbsp; Tate &amp; Lyle Europe receives an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[54,98,167,378,397],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-agricultural-subsidy","tag-brian-bender","tag-european-union","tag-tate-lyle","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}