In Germany it has become fashionable to denounce "junk prices" of food when one wants to criticize the conditions in German stables.
That should also correspond to the motivation of the new Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir, who wants to tackle the alleged low prices at the beginning of his term of office.
There are some things that are misleading when it comes to the formulation: The prices for food, especially meat, are by no means consistently too low.
They are well above the European average.
In addition, consumers have already clearly felt price increases due to the surprisingly high inflation rate - without even one animal having been better off as a result.
Those who rightly want to secure the farmers' incomes and improve animal welfare should concentrate on measures that aim precisely at this - without artificially re-warming the old price debate.
This fight against alleged junk prices hits particularly hard people with low incomes.