We used to have a (M)inistry of (A)griculture, (F)isheries and (F)ood - Nowadays the “Environment” is seen as more important than making food available at a price that the underclasses are able to afford because of the artificially high accommodation costs.
I don't believe it as they're the same staff that have to do all the checks for export
They've known for years there was a shortage of vets and have done f**k all about it. Oh other than Brexit which made it worse.
Who wants to go DNA sampling dog s5ite for £20k?tbf no-one wants to do anything anymore....just been reading news bit about gwynedd council....advertising for two dog wardens ...£20k.....not a single reply
Using Vets for checking food imports is nonsense brought about by the EU not understanding the qualifications and training required to be an Environmental Health Officer, Meat Inspector or Trading Standards Officer.
Aye fine, but they're not doing that either, are they? Basically they don't want any impediment on what they currently bring in and don't want to implement anything to curb that.
Blame the Royal college of veterinary surgeons.
Think it’s more a case they get a lot more lolly from the foreign students so limited places for the native ones
You may well be right, but whatever the reason it is very short sighted of them from a UK agriculture perspective.
You can, doesn’t require the A level grades needed to be a Vet although like Vets it is more likely to be an average Josephine these days.
Who wants to work doing that job for £20k?tbf no-one wants to do anything anymore....just been reading news bit about gwynedd council....advertising for two dog wardens ...£20k.....not a single reply
Not trying to be smart here, but a lot of the problem in 2001 was the lack of ministry vets and being active vets, instead of pen pushers and all the young vets had no experience of day to day work and no common sense.our next door neighbour is a retired vet. He went of assisting the ministry vets in 01. He reckons you wouldn’t believe what they were told in the briefings. He went too one farm, lambs had a touch of scald. Nothing too worry about. No visible lesions of salivation at all. Next day a fresh out of uni vet went too the same farm, condemned the lot. Pete tried arguing that those animals were perfectly healthy. Was told too sit down and do as he was told. That triggered a contagious cull around that farm. Non tested positive. Another farm the tup had been at the rolled barley then gone out into the field and laid out with bloat, frothing at the mouth. Pete went too it, let it down and it got up and trotted off. Again a young fresh out of uni vet reported it as salivation due too F&M. The bosses weren’t interested in ANY diagnosis other than F&M. Pete only stuck it 5 weeks then came back too his practise. He said it was mass murder, not controlled culling.
