{"id":1817,"date":"2008-08-05T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2008-08-05T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T10:20:35","slug":"the-who-on-the-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/the-who-on-the-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"The WHO on the CAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for Brussels, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/bulletin\/volumes\/86\/7\/08-053728-ab\/en\/\">World Health Organisation slams the Common Agricultural Policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cardiovascular disease burden attributable to CAP appears substantial. Furthermore, these calculations were conservative estimates, and the true mortality burden may be higher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/26578\">More here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Direct subsidies to farmers have led to massive overproduction of milk and beef in Europe, with the excess food then disposed of &#8220;principally as fats hidden in processed foods,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the 15 EU states before the 2004 round of enlargement, the annual &#8220;mortality contribution attributable to CAP was approximately 9,800 additional CHD deaths and 3,000 additional stroke deaths within the EU,&#8221; the study says, with France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK seeing the highest numbers of excess deaths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The eurosceptics are going to have a field day with this one &#8211; and who can blame them? Is there anyone bar the French and the occasional farmer who thinks the CAP is a good thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for Brussels, as the World Health Organisation slams the Common Agricultural Policy: The cardiovascular disease burden attributable to CAP appears substantial. Furthermore, these calculations were conservative estimates, and the true mortality burden may be higher. More here: Direct &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/the-who-on-the-cap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu","tag-cap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}