The Swedish government has decided to launch a third inquiry into the issue of alcohol “farm sales”. As the debate about “farm sales” and the government’s alcohol retail monopoly flares up again, notorious comparisons with Finland are floating around in the discussions.
With the help of new figures, IOGT-NTO can now show how the Finnish farm sales of beer are based on an almost total privatization of the Finnish alcohol retail monopoly for beer, contrary to what Big Alcohol’s “farm sales” lobbyists claim in the Swedish debate.
Contrary to what is often heard in the debate, this shows that Finland cannot be said to have succeeded in combining alcohol monopolies and farm sales of alcohol.
In her most recent opinion article, Irma explains how the comparison with Finland is flawed and what it really shows about Big Alcohol’s lobby push for alcohol “farm sales”…
