NFU in the line of fire

[stroller]

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/comm...il&utm_term=0_9856040c29-249f17b501-310734245
A friend who is a bit of an environmentalist just emailed me this link about the NFU

 

[Bald Rick]

No large organisation will ever represent all their members in a way that the individual member would like (having been to a few of their conferences it does worry me where some of my membership money goes!) but for all their faults, NFU don't do a bad job and with Brexit, it has never been more important that we have a strong voice representing us.
By & large, larger farmers have more time to stand for elections etc so naturally it will skew more that way.

 

[tom]

I doubt if all the quotes in that report have been ethically sourced, have they been given permission to use posts off this forum??

[if you want to check if yours was one of them the posts from TFF are used on pages 29, 38, 39, 64, 69, 73, 74, 75, 76, 105, 114 and 117 at: http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/portals/0/downloads/nfu an english agribusiness lobby group.pdf ]

 

[wasted years]

Having skim read the article the author seems to think that everyone should accept that environmentalists are right about everything and shouldn't be challenged or doubted.

 

[Farfrae]

Having skim read the article the author seems to think that everyone should accept that environmentalists are right about everything and shouldn't be challenged or doubted.

Bit like farmers on a farming website then

 

[llamedos]

I doubt if all the quotes in that report have been ethically sourced, have they been given permission to use posts off this forum??

[if you want to check if yours was one of them the posts from TFF are used on pages 29, 38, 39, 64, 69, 73, 74, 75, 76, 105, 114 and 117 at: http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/portals/0/downloads/nfu an english agribusiness lobby group.pdf ]

Good to see Mr Monbiot and friends are still reading, as ever the invitation to join and discuss is still open.

No doubt he is still To Busy.
@Goweresque @SilliamWhale @DrWazzock @Andy26 @gone up the hill are some of the many quoted

 

[bobk]

Good to see Mr Monbiot and friends are still reading, as ever the invitation to join and discuss is still open.

No doubt he is still To Busy.
@Goweresque @SilliamWhale @DrWazzock @Andy26 @gone up the hill are some of the many quoted

Who's Mr Monbiot ?

 

[spin cycle]

can't argue with it myself

 

[Hampton]

The interesting thing is the report seems to state that all the NFU does is lobby the government to try to get its point across. This statement seems hugely at odds with many on this forum who state that the NFU has neither the wit nor guile to succesfully lobby govt.

 

[llamedos]

Who's Mr Monbiot ?

http://www.monbiot.com

 

[SilliamWhale]

Good to see Mr Monbiot and friends are still reading, as ever the invitation to join and discuss is still open.

No doubt he is still To Busy.
@Goweresque @SilliamWhale @DrWazzock @Andy26 @gone up the hill are some of the many quoted

I think my quote about converting meadow to crop production was nothing to do with the NFU and all to do with a potential regulation being added on to the land.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Who's Mr Monbiot ?

A fully "The Guardian" funded Enironmentalist "journalist", family originally from France - fled the revolution & came to the UK, who regularly attempts to destroy UK farming.

For example he quoted water usage by cattle based on the total rainfall of the area of farms in the Amazon ... just so happens to be something like 10,000,000% too large at his own admission some time later AFTER producing the article.

In the same admission he stated he never even bothered researching the white papers he used, he just puked it out verbatum.

 

[bobk]

A fully "The Guardian" funded Enironmentalist "journalist", family originally from France - fled the revolution & came to the UK, who regularly attempts to destroy UK farming.

For example he quoted water usage by cattle based on the total rainfall of the area of farms in the Amazon ... just so happens to be something like 10,000,000% too large at his own admission some time later AFTER producing the article.

That was enough for me

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Thought this rang a bell:

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/survey-about-the-nfu.41686/

 

[gone up the hill]

Good to see Mr Monbiot and friends are still reading, as ever the invitation to join and discuss is still open.

No doubt he is still To Busy.
@Goweresque @SilliamWhale @DrWazzock @Andy26 @gone up the hill are some of the many quoted

is that what its about as when I saw that I had been tagged by you I thought I had got myself into trouble again

Had a quick skim thru that link but couldn't see where I have been quoted, what pages am I quoted on?

 

[llamedos]

is that what its about as when I saw that I had been tagged by you I thought I had got myself into trouble again

Had a quick skim thru that link but couldn't see where I have been quoted, what pages am I quoted on?

Oh, I dont know now, I lost the will to live cross referencing them at around page 79, it was either in RT assurance/Guy for President or TB thread.

 

[Goweresque]

Woo hoo! Fame at last. Or maybe infamy. Its all the same now since Trump won.

 

[llamedos]

Woo hoo! Fame at last. Or maybe infamy. Its all the same now since Trump won.

You must be up for some kind of media award now, think yours was the same one as was quoted in the Guardian previously.

 

[Clive]

it has to be said (and has been many times) they are desperately over due reform

UK ag needs good representation but not in it's current outdated form

it will change, one day

 

[bobk]

Woo hoo! Fame at last. Or maybe infamy. Its all the same now since Trump won.

Infamy , they've got it in for me .