Channel 4 hatchet job on farming

[le bon paysan]

On now and watch again on +1 from 8: 25 20 minute hatchet job
Minette Batters useless! Why do you put up with this?
Jaimie Oliver standing up for UK farmers.

 

[holywell farmer]

On now and watch again on +1 from 8: 25 20 minute hatchet job
Minette Batters useless! Why do you put up with this?
Jaimie Oliver standing up for UK farmers.

Channel 4 does have a green agenda.

 

[vinnie123]

What channel

 

[le bon paysan]

So cattle are responsible for more emissions than cars , airplanes and transport put together? How can they lie like this? WTF!!!

 

[le bon paysan]

What channel

4 and 4+1 which is Sky 204 ( terrestrial 15 , virgin 142) will start just gone 8:25 and for rest of programme.

 

[delilah]

If it's livestock and the environment, and involves the NFU, then I wont be trying to find it. There's no point. The NFU are part of the problem not part of the solution. And will remain so until they swallow their pride and start to take on board the information and ideas posted on here. Because, frankly, the people posting on here are more clued up than the NFU paid staff are.

 

[bobk]

On now and watch again on +1 from 8: 25 20 minute hatchet job
Minette Batters useless! Why do you put up with this?
Jaimie Oliver standing up for UK farmers.

And they wonder why the govt have boycotted the leftie tossers. unwatchable

 

[le bon paysan]

And they wonder why the govt have boycotted the leftie tossers. unwatchable

No ! Watch it , refute it! Do something!

 

[bobk]

No ! Watch it , refute it! Do something!

Nah , watching Outback Truckers , I want to go to bed in a good mood .

 

[le bon paysan]

If it's livestock and the environment, and involves the NFU, then I wont be trying to find it. There's no point. The NFU are part of the problem not part of the solution. And will remain so until they swallow their pride and start to take on board the information and ideas posted on here. Because, frankly, the people posting on here are more clued up than the NFU paid staff are.

Pathetic! They'd be burning the studio down here!

 

[delilah]

Pathetic! They'd be burning the studio down here!

Oh dear. Our representation even worse than usual ? Read the 'livestock and the environment' bits on the NfU website. It's like a suicide note.

 

[farmerm]

I seem to recall Ch4 have a 7 figure stake invested in the fake steak business Meetless Farm Co have they not? Broadcasting bias agenda!

 

[delilah]

I seem to recall Ch4 have a 7 figure stake invested in the fake steak business Meetless Farm Co have they not? Broadcasting bias agenda!

True, but it doesn't excuse our representation being as feeble as it sounds like it was ? All the more reason to go in with guns blazing surely ?

 

[le bon paysan]

Oh dear. Our representation even worse than usual ? Read the 'livestock and the environment' bits on the NfU website. It's like a suicide note.

Christ Almighty! If I ever wonder why we left the UK.!
And I get stick for saying " emigrate, the UK is f**ked"!

 

[delilah]

Christ Almighty! If I ever wonder why we left the UK.!
And I get stick for saying " emigrate, the UK is fudgeed"!

We get the representation we deserve.
Most 'farmers' in the UK are more accurately described as 'landowners'. They don't see the value of their asset declining so where's the problem ?
I have tried on here to chivvy up support for replicating what the French are apparently doing: legislation saying that 50% of food served in Govt institutions has to be French. No-one was interested.

 

[Robt]

Trouble is now Guy has moved on. There is no one on here to argue their case... hard to believe really. They are all over twitter yet wont come on here? I think there are less nutters on here than on twitter!

 

[le bon paysan]

Nah , watching Outback Truckers , I want to go to bed in a good mood .

Watch it! It'll make you sign that Compromise!

 

[delilah]

There is no one on here to argue their case... hard to believe really.

That's the crux of it. Their case is our case. We are on the same side. TFF is a free of charge resource for the NFU.

 

[farmerm]

We get the representation we deserve.
Most 'farmers' in the UK are more accurately described as 'landowners'. They don't see the value of their asset declining so where's the problem ?
I have tried on here to chivvy up support for replicating what the French are apparently doing: legislation saying that 50% of food served in Govt institutions has to be French. No-one was interested.

Agriculture is 1.7% of French economy but just 0.6% of ours, more importantly it employs 1.5% of the UK workforce but 7% of the French workforce, 7% is a lot of voters. Our parliament is dominated on both sides of the house by free marketers keen to show the UK open to trade. Chivy all you like it just aint gonna happen.

 

[delilah]

Agriculture is 1.7% of French economy but just 0.6% of ours, more importantly it employs 1.5% of the UK workforce but 7% of the French workforce, 7% is a lot of voters. Our parliament is dominated on both sides of the house by free marketers keen to show the UK open to trade. Chivy all you like it just aint gonna happen.

As I keep trying to get across on here, the environment movement is your ally, because it has the votes and it understands the environmental benefits of supporting home production far more than farmers do. Which is why you will find plenty of Friends of the Earth members at a farmers market but you wont find any NFU members.
If farming wants to continue to go it alone, then agreed it aint going to happen.