Jiglu: Farmtalking: Discussion: Re: Fear of the Internet

Originally from: gee

A little background,
A mixed farm part owned part tenanted, comprising of Sucker cows,Beef fattening cattle Sheep, Pedigree Sheep and Arable.
Part of a family farming business started about 110 years ago by my Grandfather who was a Shepherd.
Exactly the same experience of DEFRA as every other farmer involved in these sectors.
I must emphasise that I am very much hands on.
Just an ordinary farmer with a healthy interest in seeing our industry prosper and a healthy disregard for those that attempt to drag it down. It must be remembered that we have to start from where we are! and not from where we would like to be.
Gee
PS every time my spell checker looks at BCMS it pronounces that it should read "BUMS".
;-)

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Originally from: "Coleen Taylor" <...>
To: <...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [farmtalking] Fear of the Internet
Hi Everyone,
I think it is no bad thing to be able to defend and put across a 'view'
point on a message board. This thread has not degenerated into bad
language. Surely those people on here who know how the system in questions
operates can make their own minds up – as to who is being accurate in
their
postings. Prior to this thread, their was very little being posted anyway
(at the moment).
I feel that this thread has once again opened up just how much anger there
still is out there inrespect of DEFRA! and the total lack of trust given
to
them.
I would like to ask George (is it)? What first hand experience of Defra he
has? Where in all of this (apart from being a farmer) are you coming
from.
Do you own your own farm? What do you farm. Please give us an insight
into
your daily work. You perhaps have the advantage over Mark, as you have
read
all about him (and he keeps no secrets)..yet (unless I have missed your
posting) tell us very little.
I really do not think that anyone who posts on here – has any fear of the
Internet in whatever capacity they use it for.
Coleen
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From: <...>
To: <...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [farmtalking] Fear of the Internet
Dear All,
I do not feel that having confrontations on chat sites is necessarily a
bad
thing, providing the criticism is accurate and does not become
'personal'.
In this respect, I feel that I have had every right to defend my true
position whenever I have been false accused over the last few days.
Inaccurate and
personal comments should be debarred from posting at the start, then no
childish
stupidity is going to ensue.
The core of my issue is not about my own subjective grievances over the
refusal of BCMS to grant a calf passport to me and whether I am prepared
to use the
internet to communicate, but it is about the far more serious and far
reachingdemise of the smaller farmer and the misguided New Labour policy
to
'restructure agriculture' and 'depopulate livestock' as Nick Brown
himself
had stated.
Any opportunity for the seemingly legitimate slaughter of livestock has
been
grasped since New labour have come to power – TB , BSE cohorts, the
national
scrapie plan ( or whatever it is called ) and now those late passport
application animals get committed to the slaughter squad. 170 cows a day
are being
slaughtered at bridgewater abbattoir for TB alone – yet nobody is trying
to
identify the true cause – which would put us in a better position to
curb
the
outbreak of the disease – same issue with BSE too.
As i have said before, this is an appalling waste of food resources when
we
have so many in the world short of food.
Some of you may have read John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, where the US
gov
literally bulldoze out whole swaths of farmers who could not pay their
rent,
etc. Today we have a similar situation , except it is an insidious
metaphysical
bureaucratic bulldozer that is undermining the very cornerstones of our
businesses and driving us beyond breaking point. No one considers the
psychological stress that one endures whilst trying to keep the everyday
activities of the
farm going, yet simultaneously having to deal with all of this government
contrived mandatory hype. Almost 75% of the farmers have got divorced in
my area
since foot and mouth.
It is all designed to wear us down , until we throw up the towel. It is
breaking the best of us.
I started up farming with one acre in the mid 1970s, and have worked for
every penny I own. I am passionately attached to the small farming
lifestyle, and
am therefore experiencing chronic emotional pain at having to witness the
current state of affairs and the hopeless prospects for our future under
New
Labour and their multinational corporate paymasters. Whilst it might be
the 50–150
acre farms which they want gone today, it will be the 1000 acre folks
that
get
targeted tomorrow.
Best,
mark purdey
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