EU still taking down farmers
Laigle’s Forum had already reported that the EU is the new Soviet Union. Communism is not dead, as you may have supposed. However, the Marxists have cleverly desisted from redistributing wealth from rich individuals to poor ones. Instead they redistribute the wealth from rich nations to poor nations. New rules, same game. We have seen how the farmers in Italy, a rich nation, have been forced to forfeit their farms in a clever scheme that was portrayed as an effort to preserve “free market” principles. Thus Sardinian farmers who had received loans at low interest rates were forced to pay rates significantly higher than was stipulated in their bank contracts. As a result the lost their farms and livelihoods through no fault of their own in a politico-economic sleight-of-hand operation. When a Marxist organization sets about to disenfranchise a group, they can always make it look as if it is done in the interest of fairness. Now the sheep farmers in Scottland are targeted for disenfranchisement. Perhaps some day the individual states–once proud nations–will figure out what has happened, namely, that the rules of the game have been changed but the game is still communism. Will it be too late by then? Can they still back out and recover their sovereignty? Look closely, fellow Americans. This is what is in store for the US if we continue down the road to supranational government. We have seen NAFTA, CAFTA, the SPP, and other such organizations and the trick should be obvious by now. Each time, the slick talkers in government told us the US would benefit economically, yet each time the trade balance was upset in the favor of the other partners, perceived to be “poor” nations. But China is no longer poor. Yet they still get favored status. When will we wake up?
From:
www.thisisnorthscottland.co.uk:
COMPULSORY TAGGING OF SHEEP A CATASTROPHIC BLOW, SAYS MEP
08:50 – 05 January 2008
A Tory MEP has branded Europe’s move to impose compulsory electronic tagging on sheep EU-wide a “catastrophic blow to Scotland”.
Struan Stevenson said the decision to have the regime in place from December 2009 would impose huge costs on farmers who with just short of 3million breeding sheep have one of the biggest flocks in Europe.
He added: “This is the latest nail in the coffin for our beleaguered sheep sector which is already reeling from the collapse of prices following the recent foot-and-mouth outbreak.
“With cast ewes making only £2 in the market in Scotland, it stretches credulity to imagine how the council of ministers believes that sheep farmers can afford to fit every animal with expensive microchips and buy costly electronic scanners.”
Mr Stevenson warned that for many the imposition would be too costly and would force them out.
“Soon we will have no industry left and we will rely on imported mutton and lamb from countries outside the EU who pay no attention whatsoever to the rigorous regulations and controls we impose on our own farmers. This is what is so soul-destroying about the whole issue.”
Mr Stevenson has said the UK and Scottish governments should provide financial assistance to sheep farmers to pay for electronic identification, by using funds from their rural development programmes.
The plans have already been attacked by the National Sheep Association which has condemned the speed at which the proposal is being driven through Europe.
Chief executive Peter Morris added: “NSA is sick and tired of continually trying to establish why EU officials feel there is any sensible reason to introduce EID given all the measures we have in place to control animal disease spread and given that the risk of BSE in sheep is no longer present.
“No one can give any specific situations where recording the individual identities of sheep will show a benefit or will be required. All we hear time and time again is that there is a regulation in place and we have to obey it. What is the point when it does not offer benefit to anyone?”
Europe first proposed an EID system in 2003. It said in November that it would be up to industry to pick up the multimillion-pound cost.
The current proposal would be for sheep to have mandatory electronic ear tags or boluses that are in the stomachs of animals.
Not all sheep will require to be tagged. Lambs slaughtered under 12 months and sold only on to domestic markets will be exempt, although their movements will still require to be recorded through the existing batch system in Scotland. The cost to Scotland of EID could potentially run into millions of pounds as more than 4million of the country’s 7.49million sheep may have to be tagged.
Mr Morris argued the sheep industry could not cope with EID, adding: “The extra costs that will be incurred will not be picked up by anyone else in the food chain and, with virtually every sheep farmer already losing money, for many it will be the final straw.
“If the EU is determined to see off, once and for all, the crucial mass of the sheep industry in the UK and all the food, environment and rural infrastructure benefits that the industry brings with it, then it should carry on and make every sheep farmer in the UK have EID.”
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