More CAP Bashing A reported 2,500 scientists have written the European Parliament advising reform of the Common Agricultural Policy to address biodiversity, yet their proposed solution hardly seems scientific. They want policy to end intensive and “factory” farming. It is true that European countries rank surprisingly lower on habitat protection in the Yale Environmental Performance Index than in other categories (see table below), but without presenting clear data on farming’s causation it appears to be more anti-scale religion driving the so-called scientists. Based on Yale’s intensive study of the subject matter, “One of the consistent lessons of the EPI is that achieving sustainability goals requires the...