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<blockquote data-quote="topground" data-source="post: 8202396" data-attributes="member: 556"><p>Farm assurance came about as a result of the Food Safety Act 1990.</p><p>The act provides that there can be a defence of due diligence in the event of proceedings for an offence under the act.</p><p>Due diligence means taking all reasonable steps and all reasonable precautions to prevent the commissioning of the offence.</p><p>The supermarket cartel devised farm assurance as a means of getting someone else to do the leg work and therefore bear the expense of the process aided and abetted by the NFU who left their members to carry the expense while presumably the NFU creamed off some of the profits as a conowner of the protection racket they helped create.</p><p>If supermarkets have to do their own work to provide a due diligence defence so be it.</p><p>Producers will have to stand up to the buyer bullies at some stage or become the modern equivalent of serfs. The difference between modern day serfs and their predecessors is that those in the past didn’t bear any of the financial risk in making their masters rich unlike today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="topground, post: 8202396, member: 556"] Farm assurance came about as a result of the Food Safety Act 1990. The act provides that there can be a defence of due diligence in the event of proceedings for an offence under the act. Due diligence means taking all reasonable steps and all reasonable precautions to prevent the commissioning of the offence. The supermarket cartel devised farm assurance as a means of getting someone else to do the leg work and therefore bear the expense of the process aided and abetted by the NFU who left their members to carry the expense while presumably the NFU creamed off some of the profits as a conowner of the protection racket they helped create. If supermarkets have to do their own work to provide a due diligence defence so be it. Producers will have to stand up to the buyer bullies at some stage or become the modern equivalent of serfs. The difference between modern day serfs and their predecessors is that those in the past didn’t bear any of the financial risk in making their masters rich unlike today. [/QUOTE]
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