-Caveat Lector-
~Amelia~
: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:35 AM
Subject: UK/EU
Subject:
[wakingtimes] Farmers Weekly 13/06/ 97
Date:
.
{{Hi,
You will recall MrCHAD predicted F&M in Lincolnshire in July - I am
sure
he
would be happy to be wrong but I'm sorry to say he was only wrong
about
the
date not about F&M in Lincolnshire - you will note culling has just
taken
place in Lincolnshire using the feeble excuse of Dangerous Contact.
Dangerous Contact would seem to be ANY contact with DEFRA, The NFU
or
The
Government
Pat Bird in an article in The Farmers Weekly of June 1997 seems to
consider
Dangerous Contact to be ANY contact with the EU - SHE WAS RIGHT and
still
is - especially when you realise how closely The EU controls The
British
Government, The NFU & DEFRA.}}Added comment
>From Farmers Weekly 13/06/ 97
Pat Bird smells something rotten in the state of Europe.
Is the BSE fiasco an accident or part of a conspiracy to scale down
Btitish
Agriculture? I was told 25 years ago that there would be no long
term
future
for UK farming within Europe. Each country had its core industries,
and
Britains were finance, insurance and tourism, according to a City
tax
consultant. In 1984 during meetings to protest at disproportionate
cuts
in
UK milk quota the idea was repeated by senior civil servants. We
heard
it
again last year after the SDC Network visited Brussels.
In 1972 I ignored that information. !n 1997, with the benefit of
hindsight,
I believe it.
In the seventies UK govts staved off bankruptcy with huge loans
from the
EU
and USA. What was promised in return?
In the late seventies Uk cattle were compulsorily trerated with
West
German
OP insecticides at up to four times the dose used elsewhere.
Slaughter
cattle were rendered in mainly Dutch owned plants using a process
imported
from the USA. An agreement reached in 1990 specified the Community
would
not
take responsibility for BSE research, or finance it. Many people in
various
govts within Europe were not slow to realise that if British
research
was
conducted into BSE then the disease would be perceived as a British
problem.
How right they were. The reward for our honesty has been the
destruction
of
our beef industry.
As we implemented rules to stop BSE, warnings given to the
commission in
1990 by the European renderers association about the use of
specified
bovine
material in animal feeds and potential cross contamination in
mills,
were
ignored by our govt. Between 1988 / 1996 it allowed imports of
227,841 t
of
unprotected meat and bone meal. Did that prolong our Epidemic? Was
it
media
leak that prompted Mr Dorrell's statement on March 20 last year?
Strange
that the govt commissioned a market research survey into the
effects of
Mr
Dorrell's statement 2 weeks before the bombshell dropped, yet had
no
safety
net in place.
The Florence agreement committed the UK to an open ended slaughter
policy
overseen by Europe with nothing in return. It wasn't enough that
the UK
was
incinerating every animal over 30 months and killing calves. While
we
destroy the cheaper end of our home produced beef sector for the
forseeable
future, imports supply our market. Last year EU farm commissioner
Franz
Fischler said, as he proposed the calf slaughter scheme, that
Europe had
1m
too many beef cattle. Who expected this country to shoulder most of
the
cuts? The UK herd has plummeted from about 15m in 1974 to nearly
9.5m
today(1997)
The decline should have meant prosperity for those left in
business. But
beef prices, at the bottom of the European league, are at a 20 year
low.
Meanwhile retail prices are static as govt, supermarkets and
manufacturers
welcome unmonitored imports from every corner of the globe, causing
supply
to exceed consumption. feed companies are facing contraction of up
to
20%
this year.
Are Uk farmers prepared for their part? The GATT agreement requires
europe
to shed 40% 0f its farmers. Like the cattle are they to be British
too?
Why have our farming unions allowed all this to happen, were they
too
includsed in some secret deal? Have they accepted fools gold of
compensation
today at the expense of farmings long term prosperity? So where
does our
future lie? As proud British farmers, park keepers or, if scheming
eurocrats
have their way, as part time peasants?
Remember the above article was written in 1997
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