On 14th October, farmsubsidy.org posted the launch of Fields of Gold: Lifting the Veil on Europe’s Farm Subsidies.
 
The 20-minute film tells the story of the successful campaign that brought together journalists, NGOs and computer programmers in the struggle for increased transparency about European farm subsidies.

Narrated by Jack Thurston, founding director of EU Transparency and co-founder of farmsubsidy.org, the film outlines the logic behind the creation of subsidies and the powerful role to be played be increasing transparency: revealing to the public not only the total costs of government support, but that the top recipients are wealthy landowners and large companies, not small-scale family farmers.

To see the film, visit www.followthemoney.eu/fields-of-gold/