I've got the same this morn ,will reply asking the same.Anyone else had a email from red tractor saying that they are on the horse meat case. Sent a reply asking why it had taken so long, why do we put up with these people ?
Why do you put up with them?
I've got the same this morn ,will reply asking the same.
Anyone else had a email from red tractor saying that they are on the horse meat case. Sent a reply asking why it had taken so long, why do we put up with these people ?
How can it possibly go away, there are probably more people employed in the assurance sector than in actual farming.Your all in cloud cuckoo land if you think assurance is going away. It's going to get far more in the future.
Don't think anyone has said we want it to go away, well not on this thread, the point is why the hell has it taken then this long to react to the horse meat problem, if we all decide that it makes no difference to be farm assured and stop paying for it it will be their jobs that go, or are they all to arrogant to think that while they look over our shoulders to check up on us that they don't need to do theirs, I.E promote assured produce to the publicYour all in cloud cuckoo land if you think assurance is going away. It's going to get far more in the future.
Didn't stop them buying the crap that has been shown up for what it is tho, perhaps now is the time to go on the offensive to get the public only to buy assured british food so the supermarkets can only buy assured, oh wait a minute just woke up, a large percentage of the public and most of the big firms don't give a monkeys they just buy on cost always have always will, at least my horsey clients buy because of the standard of service I provideAs they have convinced all of our customers that they must only buy off assured producers we don't have the option of not paying any more.
Fa is just a facade for the supermarket to be seen as doing the right thing.Didn't stop them buying the crap that has been shown up for what it is tho, perhaps now is the time to go on the offensive to get the public only to buy assured british food so the supermarkets can only buy assured, oh wait a minute just woke up, a large percentage of the public and most of the big firms don't give a monkeys they just buy on cost always have always will, at least my horsey clients buy because of the standard of service I provide
Don't think anyone has said we want it to go away, well not on this thread, the point is why the hell has it taken then this long to react to the horse meat problem, if we all decide that it makes no difference to be farm assured and stop paying for it it will be their jobs that go, or are they all to arrogant to think that while they look over our shoulders to check up on us that they don't need to do theirs, I.E promote assured produce to the public
The reason it has taken them/the NFU so long to respond is because no one actually knows it products with the red tractor on them wont be caught up in the horse meat fiasco and they prob still cant be 100% sure either!!
If farm assurance is to have a place in food production in the future the following needs to happen :
1 : the scheme rules need to be cut back to no more than 20 points so its workable on farm ( as the amount of rules are getting out of hand ) and focus more on things like med records/ state of the housing etc and not rubbish like fencing around muck heaps for example!
2 : needs to be much better marketed to the general public and be shown to be given value for the cost of being in the scheme to farmers.
3 : it needs to be much more transparent how the food chain is assured beyond the farm gate to both farmers and the general public.
If no red tractor foods are shown to be caught up in the fiasco then they need to make the most of the golden egg that has been laid before them, if they dont then farm assurance is fhinshed..