I am writing in answer to the article on food waste and prices written by Katy Rice (The Argus, November 5).

While I totally agree with Katy about the absurdity of the EU regulations on food, I feel she has missed the real truth of this issue.

These regulations were imposed by the EU as a way of ensuring the “free market” was, and still is, able to flourish with complete disregard for us, the consumers.

She correctly points out that the poor weather has affected farming yields on a pan-global scale, yet she fails to recognise that a significant proportion of certain crops are being used to create biofuels, and high fructose corn syrup, to satisfy our obsessions with cars and sweet foods.

It is a fact that farmers worldwide are being put under enormous financial pressure from the big corporate food processors and agri-businesses. The “Green Revolution” of the 1970s and 1980s in Asia was instigated by the Monsanto and The World Bank, World Trade Organisation and the IMF, and has caused economic and human disasters which still pervade there today.

The round-up crops created by Monsanto failed, the farmers lost everything and the banks, and big corporations, have taken over, creating factory farms to feed the West.

The same principle has been recently applied to our dairy farmers, so how long before our agricultural land is 100% owned by big corporations and banks?

To finish, the round-up crops may have found their way into our food systems.

I implore anyone reading this to read a book called Stuffed And Starved by Raj Patel, as only then will you realise the truth of the food situation that affects us all.

Kenny Lloyd, Norway Street, Portslade