>>6384104they're eh whatever for me. i appreciate all the free moneys and most of all i appreciate them enforcing food standards. there has been a noticeable increase in food control and quality ever since we got into the eu. feels good when i can look at a food content label and it not reading like a chemical formula.
that said, they do do some weird shit like subsidize different crops being grown on an eu level, as opposed to a country level. and they sometimes seem to do it for things that require multiple years to bear fruit. like some pencil pusher sees there's not enough hazelnuts, and for the next 2 years people who grow hazelnuts get subsidized and after that it's people who grow plums or whatever. policies like that encourage faggots here to plant some trees, keep em around while the eu gives them money, then uproot them before their first harvest and plant the next meme crop which is a waste of soil.
imo, they should be dealing with more serious stuff like soil degradation, which can be fixed via crop rotation. like you grow tomatoes one year, then you plant beans because they release nitrogen or whatever, which is good for the soil, then plant something else, then only go back to tomatoes five years later. they can do policies that encourage stuff like that. who cares if one year we have a shortage of asparagus or whatever. the state of soil worldwide is dangerously bad.
i also don't like how they act like moral arbiters, as opposed to simply an economic union. like how they keep threatening hungary and poland with sanctions over rejecting refugees. that shit is an internal matter and some supranational body shouldn't have the power to meddle in those.
