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Warmwell: No one will enter my farm to kill my animals...
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Thursday, 8 November 2007. No one will enter my farm to kill my animals. Brave, admirable, doomed words. If the veterinary service does not show me in writing whose animals actually have this disease, no one will enter my farm to kill my animals,”. Farmers in Cyprus are tearful, angry and disbelieving of the nightmare into which they have been plunged. Brussels is telling them to kill their animals - they want to know which ones for why should they kill healthy animals? For better or worse, we are in the...
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Warmwell: "It seems that we are obliged to kill ..."
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Tuesday, 6 November 2007. It seems that we are obliged to kill .". The Cypriot Agriculture Minister, Fotis Fotiou, showed in a radio statement his shock at the measures insisted upon by the EU:. It seems that we are obliged to kill livestock from the three remaining farms as well, which represents around 1,500 animals. Nobody can rule out the culling of many more animals if other test results come back from London indicating the disease has spread.". I challenge anyone to listen to the BBC's On Your Farm.
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warmwell2: Risk
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Sunday, 7 October 2007. Oct 8 2007 Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire and West Sussex may be freed from the high risk zone. There were hopes this week that Defra would announce relaxations to foot-and-mouth restrictions and remove a number of counties from the high risk zone. A case for the removal of counties like Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire and West Sussex from the zone. And paragraph 31 expresses evident irritation at the "intractable" behaviour of some of the cattle making su...
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Warmwell: Scotland the brave
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Saturday, 3 November 2007. The virus-carrying midges of Northern Europe, deterred and terrified by brave words from the Scots farming union bosses, are going to make a U turn at Hadrian's Wall. Scotland is a country where midges are virtually unknown. The SBCA could not be party to a policy which could expose the Scottish livestock industry to this most dreadful disease.". To extend the protection zone to cover the whole of Great Britain - or at least. Actually this is likely to happen the other way roun...
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Warmwell: 02/12/07 - 09/12/07
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Wednesday, 5 December 2007. Seven pillars of piffle. The Science and Technology Committee (which now must be termed the. Innovation, Universities and Skills Committee". For reasons hard to fathom) has been taking evidence on the role of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser from Sir David King, today. The parallel universe that he inhabits is rather an odd one. Here are some of the royal gems:. Killing animals because the computer says so is good. Sir David said that he regretted the phrase "global war...
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Warmwell: Consider the birds of the air
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Sunday, 18 November 2007. Consider the birds of the air. Poor old farmers. Can there be a more smeared and sneered at group in Britain - or one that has had so much thrown at it in so short a time? And are journalists really unable to see a difference between farmers (people who farm)and those grotesque agri-barons who treat animals as mere parcels of protoplasm to be crammed behind the high walls of factories? In the Observer,. So many disease outbreaks are making people wonder more and more about the h...
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Warmwell: Baaa ..... Humbug!
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Friday, 21 December 2007. The cold winds do blow and we shall have snow .and the Bluetongue midges - according to DEFRA decree today - will bite no more for a while. At least, this is what we and the midges have been told and the farmers, desperate to do some moving of stock at last, are not going to argue. But what about the future of those sheep still abiding in the fields? How are they to be kept from succumbing to the Bluetongue infection-carrying culicoides of next Spring? And for the country? As th...
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Warmwell: Competent authority
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Saturday, 24 November 2007. Government cuts, mergers and attempts to save money are all horribly and visibly coming home to roost. Something has got to change before we all explode with frustration. Has not. Getting involved in politics become the new political correctness? Is that why we let this destructiveness continue? The personal details of 25 million people sent from the HMRC offices at Washington's Waterview Park to the National Audit Office by courier disappeared, taking with them with the very ...
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Warmwell: "...if we go the way of the coal and steel industries, there will be no way back.."
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Monday, 25 February 2008. If we go the way of the coal and steel industries, there will be no way back.". If you want to see the future, just look at the west coast of Scotland . the farmers had no other industry to rely on, .all the animals have gone." In the New Year, Alistair Davy and other farmers from Yorkshire were quoted in an article in the Yorkshire Post. The Treasury has no apparent interest in supporting farmers in a particularly difficult time and what little money there is for DEFRA is not g...
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Warmwell: "an odd way to save money"
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Sunday, 25 November 2007. An odd way to save money". The latest way DEFRA intends to save money: a £300 million "voluntary retirement" scheme to any DEFRA employee over 50 who wants to jump ship. There is much jostling on the decks. As one insider, quoted by the Evening Standard. 163;300 million is also the amount of the fine Defra was ordered to pay by the EU for its shambolic handling of the RPA. 163;220,000 was the sum in tenders received in October 2006 for vital repairs to Pirbright.
