How could RT police ELM's unless ELM's was linked to productionRed Tractor seem to be extremely good at dodging the main point that until British Food across the board attracts a premium for being RT assured its taking away from British Agriculture. Now if RT assured food attracted a meaningful premium I doubt this debate would have got off the floor. British food has to be produced to legal standards, and that should be the end of it; until a processor or end customer comes along and requires RT but will in turn give the producer a premium.
Jim Moseley's assertion today that it is the most recognised brand in UK agriculture is false, the Union Jack is the biggest brand logo British Agriculture has and always will have.
The only ray of light I saw today was it doesn't look like DEFRA will allow RT to police ELMs
Otherwise I feel that as Jim Moseley suggested when talking about funding, farmers are becoming less important as we will make up less than 50% of red tractor funding by next year, so we are going to become takers of more and more regulation by RT. Only way to stop it is to destroy it.