Farmers ‘slaves’ to supermarket giants

IRISH farmers are slaves to the multinational supermarkets and the Government has ceded control of the country’s agriculture, food writer John McKenna has claimed.

In an attack primarily aimed at supermarket giants, he said the relationship between the multinationals and farmers is not one of equals or even one of trading partners.

“Instead it is one of master and slave. Irish farmers are powerless,” he has written in the foreword to the latest Bridgestone Irish Food Guide.