Når man f.eks. som lægmand hører, at alle mulige former for affald genbruges som dyrefoder, at man flere år efter kogalskaben stadigvæk fodrer planteædere med dyremel, og at der oven i købet i dyrefoderet forarbejdes helt ukontrollerede produkter fra tvivlsomme lande, må man spørge sig selv, om flere årtiers europæisk landbrugspolitik ikke har spillet totalt fallit.
If, for example, the man in the street were to hear that all manner of waste was being recycled for animal feed, that years after mad cow disease, herbivores are still being fed with animal bonemeal and what is more, that products of obscure provenance which have undergone no checks whatsoever, are being mixed into animal feed bases, then he may well ask himself if decades of European agricultural policy should not, in all honesty, be classified as a total failure.