Food Industry letter to Gove

[Old McDonald]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47200688

I cannot make a lot of sense out of this article. Does anyone have the full letter, and why is the NFU a signatory?

 

[Ashtree]

Real representatives, representing real people, running real businesses, employing real people, generating real wealth, generating real tax income for the government, making their views known.

Risk takers whose businesses have been thrown into deep uncertainty, and who are genuinely now worried about the road ahead.

Risk takers who have been told by leading Brexiteer Boris Johnson “f@*k business”.

Risk takers who have been told by Rees Mogg, that it may take fifty years for any benefit to accrue to Britain.

Yes, many people out there now are really, really worried about how all of this is panning out.

 

[wanton dwarf]

NFU webpage is here:

https://www.nfuonline.com/news/brex...-food-industry-access-to-single-market-and-l/

"Those signing this letter represent the four UK Farming Unions and 71 leading food businesses with a collective turnover of over £92bn and employing over 925,000 people across the UK. We have a bold and ambitious vision for our industry; one where competitive, profitable and progressive farming and food businesses deliver an increasing proportion of the nation’s needs for high quality, safe, affordable food to British people, as well as expanding into new export markets. We know that we have the strong support of consumers who value the British provenance as well as the daily care we take to manage the environment and safeguard the integrity of our crops, animals and production processes."


And the last bit about seasonal Labour .. so it's all about the large processors as usual at the expense of everyone else.

Typical NFU .. couldn't give a toss about the small & medium farms & workers.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Signatories are:

2 Sisters Food group
AB Connect part of AB Agri
ABP Food Group UK
AH Worth & Co Ltd
Apetito
Arla Foods UK plc
Baileys Turkeys Ltd
Berry Gardens
BerryWorld Ltd
Branston Holdings Ltd
Bumble Hole Foods Ltd
C&J Meats
Capestone Organic Poultry Ltd
Cargill, Incorporated.
Chippindale Foods
Cobb Vantress Europe Ltd
Cobrey Farms
Country Land and Business Association Ltd
Crosse & Blackwell
Dairy Crest Ltd
Dawn Meats
Dovecote Park Ltd
Dunbia
Euro Quality Lambs Ltd

Eurostock Food Group
Fayrefield Foods
Foyle Food Group Ltd
Fresca Group Ltd
Graham’s Family Dairy
G’s Growers Ltd
Hewitts’ Wholesales
Hillier Nurseries Ltd
Humphrey Farms Ltd
Hy-line UK Ltd
Joice and Hill
J Sainsbury PLC
Kelly Turkeys
Lactalis McLelland UK
Linden Food Group
Marks and Spencer plc
Mash Direct Ltd
Meadow Foods Ltd
M.H. Poskitt Ltd
Monaghan Mushrooms
Müller UK & Ireland
Muntons plc
Natures Way Foods Ltd
Neame Lea Nursery Ltd

Noble Foods Ltd
Northern Ireland Meat Exporters' Association
NIMEA Ltd
Oakland Farm Eggs Ltd
OMSCo
PD Hook / Hook 2 Sisters
Poupart Produce
Produce World Group Ltd
Puffin Produce Ltd
Randall Parker Food Group
Riviera Produce Ltd
Scotbeef Ltd
South Caernarfon Creameries Ltd
Sunrise Poultry Farms Ltd
The Newey Group
Traditional Norfolk Poultry Ltd
Valefresco Ltd
WD Meats
Weetabix Ltd
Withers Farm
Wm Morrisons Supermarkets plc (inconjunction with Woodheads)
Wyke Farms

 

[Ashtree]

NFU webpage is here:

https://www.nfuonline.com/news/brex...-food-industry-access-to-single-market-and-l/

And the last bit about seasonal Labour .. so it's all about the large processors as usual at the expense of everyone else.

Typical NFU .. couldn't give a toss about the small & medium farms & workers.

Small and mediums have nothing to worry about, don’t you think! JRM and Boris taking care of their interests above all else!!

Facts are though, it’s the small and medium businesses and farms, who will fare out worst in a no deal scenario.

Weatherspoons et al, will do rather nicely.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Small and mediums have nothing to worry about, don’t you think! JRM and Boris taking care of their interests above all else!!

Facts are though, it’s the small and medium businesses and farms, who will fare out worst in a no deal scenario.

Weatherspoons et al, will do rather nicely.

Irish farms & Processors are about to lose their best market ..

UK farms & Processors can smell a business opportunity.

 

[Ashtree]

Irish farms & Processors are about to lose their best market ..

UK farms & Processors can smell a business opportunity.

You mean they hope JRM slaps on tariffs on food!!

 

[yin ewe]

Real representatives, representing real people, running real businesses, employing real people, generating real wealth, generating real tax income for the government, making their views known.

Risk takers whose businesses have been thrown into deep uncertainty, and who are genuinely now worried about the road ahead.

Risk takers who have been told by leading Brexiteer Boris Johnson “f@*k business”.

Risk takers who have been told by Rees Mogg, that it may take fifty years for any benefit to accrue to Britain.

Yes, many people out there now are really, really worried about how all of this is panning out.

You could argue that the real risk takers are those who are forging ahead, looking for new markets outside the EU, which according to some 'experts' seems to be growing less quickly than some other regions.

 

[Muck Spreader]

You mean they hope JRM slaps on tariffs on food!!

Just the opposite with JRM he is for full on free trade, low regulations and zero tariffs. Good for the money men, bad for everyone else.

 

[Ashtree]

Just the opposite with JRM he is for full on free trade, low regulations and zero tariffs. Good for the money men, bad for everyone else.

Indeed. Currently British beef and cheese producers cannot compete with their Irish counterparts.
How they will have a better landscape once their market is opened to S America etc, is beyond me.

 

[wanton dwarf]

You mean they hope JRM slaps on tariffs on food!!

Tariffs, quotas, regulation and inspections.

No more dodgy food.

 

[Ashtree]

Tariffs, quotas, regulation and inspections.

No more dodgy food.

Dream on man. Dream on.
Brexit is about more cheap food as one of its primary goals.
Less regulation, less inspections, no quotas. Few quid thrown to the hill men to keep the place tidy.

 

[caveman]

Dream on man. Dream on.
Brexit is about more cheap food as one of its primary goals.
Less regulation, less inspections, no quotas. Few quid thrown to the hill men to keep the place tidy.

Great for consumers.
There's infinitely more of them than us.
Jeez.
They might even be able to buy twice as much to donate to food banks........which we farmers will be using.
Win win.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Dream on man. Dream on.
Brexit is about more cheap food as one of its primary goals.
Less regulation, less inspections, no quotas. Few quid thrown to the hill men to keep the place tidy.

The future of the UK is for the people of the UK to define.

Not a few jaded people in Ireland with a chip on their shoulder.

We'll have the system WE want not what YOU want.

 

[arcobob]

Dream on man. Dream on.
Brexit is about more cheap food as one of its primary goals.
Less regulation, less inspections, no quotas. Few quid thrown to the hill men to keep the place tidy.[/QUOTE]
What inspections and regulations within the EU actually work? A massive number clearly don`t and these are only the ones that we hear about. Another piece of expensive , disfunctional BS.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I'm going to put a veg plot in the field. Every man for himself . We have plenty of rabbits around that will keep us going

 

[Ashtree]

The future of the UK is for the people of the UK to define.

Not a few jaded people in Ireland with a chip on their shoulder.

We'll have the system WE want not what YOU want.

So, you according to your outburst a few posts back, more regulation, more inspections, more tariffs and quotas on top of all of that.
Pray tell me, how Brexit will deliver that?????????

 

[arcobob]

Signatories are:

2 Sisters Food group
AB Connect part of AB Agri
ABP Food Group UK
AH Worth & Co Ltd
Apetito
Arla Foods UK plc
Baileys Turkeys Ltd
Berry Gardens
BerryWorld Ltd
Branston Holdings Ltd
Bumble Hole Foods Ltd
C&J Meats
Capestone Organic Poultry Ltd
Cargill, Incorporated.
Chippindale Foods
Cobb Vantress Europe Ltd
Cobrey Farms
Country Land and Business Association Ltd
Crosse & Blackwell
Dairy Crest Ltd
Dawn Meats
Dovecote Park Ltd
Dunbia
Euro Quality Lambs Ltd

Eurostock Food Group
Fayrefield Foods
Foyle Food Group Ltd
Fresca Group Ltd
Graham’s Family Dairy
G’s Growers Ltd
Hewitts’ Wholesales
Hillier Nurseries Ltd
Humphrey Farms Ltd
Hy-line UK Ltd
Joice and Hill
J Sainsbury PLC
Kelly Turkeys
Lactalis McLelland UK
Linden Food Group
Marks and Spencer plc
Mash Direct Ltd
Meadow Foods Ltd
M.H. Poskitt Ltd
Monaghan Mushrooms
Müller UK & Ireland
Muntons plc
Natures Way Foods Ltd
Neame Lea Nursery Ltd

Noble Foods Ltd
Northern Ireland Meat Exporters' Association
NIMEA Ltd
Oakland Farm Eggs Ltd
OMSCo
PD Hook / Hook 2 Sisters
Poupart Produce
Produce World Group Ltd
Puffin Produce Ltd
Randall Parker Food Group
Riviera Produce Ltd
Scotbeef Ltd
South Caernarfon Creameries Ltd
Sunrise Poultry Farms Ltd
The Newey Group
Traditional Norfolk Poultry Ltd
Valefresco Ltd
WD Meats
Weetabix Ltd
Withers Farm
Wm Morrisons Supermarkets plc (inconjunction with Woodheads)
Wyke Farms

Some on that list have production facilities in the EU. Their main worries are hold up in exports back to UK.

 

[arcobob]

So, you according to your outburst a few posts back, more regulation, more inspections, more tariffs and quotas on top of all of that.
Pray tell me, how Brexit will deliver that?????????

The policing and upholding of food standards in the UK is a lot more stringent and effective than it is in the EU. They may be the same rules but rules are only effective if they are applied.

 

[arcobob]

Real representatives, representing real people, running real businesses, employing real people, generating real wealth, generating real tax income for the government, making their views known.

Risk takers whose businesses have been thrown into deep uncertainty, and who are genuinely now worried about the road ahead.

Risk takers who have been told by leading Brexiteer Boris Johnson “f@*k business”.

Risk takers who have been told by Rees Mogg, that it may take fifty years for any benefit to accrue to Britain.

Yes, many people out there now are really, really worried about how all of this is panning out.

You said it, they are risk takers who took advantage of a situation and did not read the signs. Over the last few years they have profited from the situation while others definitely have not, quite the reverse in some cases. There is always a payoff at the end of the day and now the time has come. They will have to become more flexible and adapt or go and look for another job.