Where is delilahs document from? If it’s true that is shocking.
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Where is delilahs document from? If it’s true that is shocking.
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Pages 104-107. The None Farming Union is finished.
They won't chuck out their corporate or countryside non farming members, they have become too important to the business.Well, if we got them reformed so that only farmers could be members, then yes they would be finished as the None Farming Union.
They wont be finished otherwise; even if a significant chunk of the farming membership stopped paying their subs tomorrow they could keep pottering along on the back of the the investments.
You wont starve the NFU out. You need to reform it.
I know off a guy who dose deal with them and have heard him after dinner speaking about it and he has great fun dealing with them plays games with them as they do with him but he sells something not many other sell so kind of has the whip hand with them but he certinaly seems to enjoy the horse trading side with them!I can’t imagine dealing with supermarkets being a lot of fun, maybe they said they aren’t going to buy products from farmers assured by a farmer governed scheme and want their own cronies on the boards?
I can’t imagine dealing with supermarkets being a lot of fun, maybe they said they aren’t going to buy products from farmers assured by a farmer governed scheme and want their own cronies on the boards?
Too many posts to look back on so sorry if my question has already been covered . In the event of an accident or incident where legal people or even court cases are involved do you have to be a member for the legal backup from the NFU which talking to members is very good - obviously staying insured with them ?
This is from Delilah's document which is pretty damning:
When we consider their inflated membership claims in relation to the whole UK industry we see just how
unrepresentative the NFU council actually is. There are, in fact, some 212,000 UK holdings. NFU membership is only
26% of these. The truly astounding misrepresentation is that the NFU claim the number of holdings to be the number of
farmers. The NFU’s membership is only 19% of the 294,000 registered commercial British farmers and a mere 11% of
the recorded 476,000 farming workforce. A far cry from the "more than 70% of farmers".
... What is certain is the NFU is not anywhere close to representing the two thirds of farmers it implies – less than a fifth
at best.
Sustainable food campaigns are also concerned that corporate or other associate category members – being undisclosed
– could contain powerful corporate interests such as pesticide manufacturer Syngenta. Apparently "all the main milk
processors are members of NFU, as are supermarkets.
Non farmers union.
Absolutely your last para.supermarkets already buy unassured produce
ALL of the cereal / bakery products for starters !
the reason the NFU are failing on this is part ego (they invented this) , part gravy train connections / future opportunities for officers and head office employees and part need to represent their influencial none farming membership
NFU mutual are not very competitive in my experience
Last line is National Farmers Union. Naughty because it's miss advertised as such and misleading.I’ve been banging on about the big corporate members for years
THIS is the issue and explains why they dont seem to represent
a farming union should be 100% farmers surely
Last line is National Farmers Union. Naughty because it's miss advertised as such and misleading.
supermarkets already buy unassured produce
ALL of the cereal / bakery products for starters !
the reason the NFU are failing on this is part ego (they invented this) , part gravy train connections / future opportunities for officers and head office employees and part need to represent their influencial none farming membership
You assume that farm assurance improves welfare or reduces the risk of welfare breaches?i believe it would be far less of a issue for arable farms compared to the livestock industry.
I would rather have a far more sensible version of red tractor assurance than dairy/livestock produce buyers make us be part of something like RSPCA freedom foods where they threaten removal of contract for taking part the badger cull etc. That’s the alternative! Supermarkets are making game dealers only buy from assured shoots, there’s no way they would buy most of their meat/dairy from unassured farms!
How many of these horrendous animal welfare cases happen on farm assured farms? Very few I should imagine, the removal of farm assurance would allow far more serious cases of this which would damage the livestock industry even further!
You assume that farm assurance improves welfare or reduces the risk of welfare breaches?
i believe it would be far less of a issue for arable farms compared to the livestock industry.
I would rather have a far more sensible version of red tractor assurance than dairy/livestock produce buyers make us be part of something like RSPCA freedom foods where they threaten removal of contract for taking part the badger cull etc. That’s the alternative! Supermarkets are making game dealers only buy from assured shoots, there’s no way they would buy most of their meat/dairy from unassured farms!
How many of these horrendous animal welfare cases happen on farm assured farms? Very few I should imagine, the removal of farm assurance would allow far more serious cases of this which would damage the livestock industry even further!
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If farm assurance for livestock farmers stops just one extra case like the one above then it’s doing it’s job, current RT is far from perfect i agree but I believe a alternative or no assurance could be a whole lot worse.
By this, are you trying to justify the case for RT?I would take a strong guess that far more cases of animal cruelty take place on non assured farms.
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