Global food takeover? - MAFF makes a move!
mango | 11.04.2001 11:01
"Ministers expect that by 2005 as many as 25% of farms - almost all small ones - will have closed or merged, with 50,000 people forced to leave the industry." - Yeah, right!
Maybe that FMD & Monsanto/Cargill conspiracy article a week or two back on IMC was not so far fetched after all?
From today's Grauniad:-
The government plans a major reduction in the number of farms and farmers as part of a recovery package for British agriculture in the wake of the foot and mouth outbreak, the Guardian has learned.
Ministers expect that by 2005 as many as 25% of farms - almost all small ones - will have closed or merged, with 50,000 people forced to leave the industry.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Maff) is soon due to publish three major reports analysing the long-term structural crisis in British farming. The reports, central to the government's strategy for agriculture published last year, are likely to argue that large scale farms tend to be more productive, and are more likely to compete successfully in an increasingly liberalised trade in world food.
for full article go to:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/footandmouth/story/0,7369,471654,00.html
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Well, well, well,
Now we are reminded of MAFF's machinations in all their seditious vileness - a cover for the not so subtle global elite's plans for domination of the food supply.
Swallow or Retch? We have a deep sickness in this country - it's called elitist greed.
mango
http://www.environment.org.uk/activist/
'Business now stands as a guard dog at the gates of perception. Only the enquiries which suit its needs are allowed to pass.' George Monbiot in 'Captive State'.
From today's Grauniad:-
The government plans a major reduction in the number of farms and farmers as part of a recovery package for British agriculture in the wake of the foot and mouth outbreak, the Guardian has learned.
Ministers expect that by 2005 as many as 25% of farms - almost all small ones - will have closed or merged, with 50,000 people forced to leave the industry.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Maff) is soon due to publish three major reports analysing the long-term structural crisis in British farming. The reports, central to the government's strategy for agriculture published last year, are likely to argue that large scale farms tend to be more productive, and are more likely to compete successfully in an increasingly liberalised trade in world food.
for full article go to:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/footandmouth/story/0,7369,471654,00.html ---
Well, well, well,
Now we are reminded of MAFF's machinations in all their seditious vileness - a cover for the not so subtle global elite's plans for domination of the food supply.
Swallow or Retch? We have a deep sickness in this country - it's called elitist greed.
mango
http://www.environment.org.uk/activist/ 'Business now stands as a guard dog at the gates of perception. Only the enquiries which suit its needs are allowed to pass.' George Monbiot in 'Captive State'.
mango
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Very Fishy
12.04.2001 11:47
Exactly how long had this outbreak been going before the gov announced it?
Why was the company that supplied all the wood and coal for the sacrificial pyres contacted weeks before the 'Hoof and Gob' outbreak was first reported by MAFF
( Ministry of Agricultural Fucking Failure )
Paxman
Obviously
12.04.2001 17:38
Porky
URLs
13.04.2001 19:50
it would be great if you could alter the software that powers this site so that anything beginning with http:// comes out as a clickable link. My email software does this so I'm sure it's not that difficult to do...
Mr S
The X Files...
13.04.2001 20:00
if you don't mind me saying. I'd love to see some evidence of this. You think that the government would deliberately orchestrate such an economically destructive national crisis, all as part of some big plan to deliver the nation's agricultural resources to big business?
Are you seriously suggesting this?
Let me get this right: You think that the government deliberately introduced foot and mouth disease to this country as part of some big conspiracy?
Or do you just mean that the government deliberately decided not to intervene when it could have done?
Wild conspiracy theories are fun, but if they are to be seriously proposed they need some justification.
This is a pretty serious claim to make..
D. Sculley
Yeah, Obviously!
13.04.2001 20:03
Mr S
Lording it!
14.04.2001 00:00
peasant
Aware?
17.04.2001 10:21
Mr S writes:-
'You are aware, I presume that Sainsbury does not stock GM food. It came under immense consumer pressure not to do so and now ensures that all it's food is GM free..'
You are not aware, I presume, that they also continue to sell produce that, in its brief and unpleasant 'life', has consumed GM feed? Get in touch with Mr.Self to check this fact.
As for conspiracy theory; no, I don't suggest that the FMD outbreak is deliberate - I do maintain that this MAFF (Ministry of Arrogant Fools and Foul-ups) report soon to see the light of day sounds the death knell for small scale organic farming. In fact they are doing the precise opposite of what all the Agriculture NGOs have been advocating for the last ten years. This seems to pave the way for transglobal control of the food supply. See Corporate Watch for Cargill's publicised policies, for instance. Look at their interest in China for another...
hth,
mango
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