Jim you can do whatever you like. If you tried posting rational statements and not sweeping generalisations and gross exaggerations you arguments may sometimes have merit. However you admirably demonstrate that this is well beyond your capabilities. Also every time you have to dredge up the famine and how hard done by the Irish are and how there is no industry left in Britain and how often you have to change lightbulbs. If you were masquerading as a sparky I would have thought changing lightbulbs was part and parcel of the job. Do us all a favour and stop behaving like a spoilt brat every time someone has the audacity to disagree with you.

" As soon as you see farming the land as a business that must make profits you are arguing for ecological devastation"

That has to be a naive, barking mad view even for a raving sandal wearing socialist. If the business is breakeven it is a charity and if it makes a loss it is a basket case. What makes you think agriculture is any different to any other business? Does it run on magic so it can run at a loss every year. Do combines and tractors fall out of the sky like manna from heaven? Your statement is utterly ridiculous.

I suggest you look at one or two CAP directives. Agriculture is far from the free for all you make it out to be. Each time a procedure or process is demonstrated to be harmful it becomes tightly regulated or legislated against.(eg the banning of azulam for bracken control by the EU)