I recently wrote an article for SERA, Labour’s Environmental Campaign, on the potential impact of Brexit on the UK’s farming sector, which you can read HERE.

Although I continue to believe little good can come from Brexit, it is generally accepted that leaving the deeply flawed Common Agricultural Policy would be an opportunity to improve the way we subsidise farming in this country, using “public money for public goods” to raise standards and preserve important aspects of the environment such as biodiversity and soil health. However this is more than outweighed by the risk that post-Brexit trade deals, could see a race to the bottom on prices and standards, with an influx of products such as hormone-injected beef and chlorinated chicken, and UK farmers forced to move to more intensive, industrial methods of farming in order to stay competitive, which is something we should resist at all cost.