Beef Summit and The Beef Plan

Coonagh

Was there many at the IFJ’s beef summit last night in Ballinasloe. I’d be interested to hear what other people thought of it. Lots of very understandable anger and frustration from the floor but the way large parts of the crowd descended into mob like behavior was very counterproductive, in fact I witnessed a number of Beef Plan members removing their yellow vests when it started to get ugly. IFA’s Liam McHale spoke well and interestingly enough only one of two speakers that wasn’t heckled. ICBF came in for a fair amount of what was in my opinion unjustified criticism and there’s no doubt that this is being driven from the various breed societies involvement in the Beef Plan.

_Brian

Coonagh wrote: »

Was there many at the IFJ’s beef summit last night in Ballinasloe. I’d be interested to hear what other people thought of it. Lots of very understandable anger and frustration from the floor but the way large parts of the crowd descended into mob like behavior was very counterproductive, in fact I witnessed a number of Beef Plan members removing their yellow vests when it started to get ugly. IFA’s Liam McHale spoke well and interestingly enough only one of two speakers that wasn’t heckled. ICBF came in for a fair amount of what was in my opinion unjustified criticism and there’s no doubt that this is being driven from the various breed societies involvement in the Beef Plan.

One mans mob behaviour is another mans voicing his frustration at a system that is unfair and anticompetitive.

If it were a French meeting likely the top table would have been showered with slurry so wasn’t bad at all in comparison.

leoch

watched it online on Facebook it was pure nonsense the usual political answers waffle and dribble..... any time time they were asked a question about the factorys like movements or price fixing between the factorys or age limits it was mostly ignored

gerryirl

leoch wrote: »

watched it online on Facebook it was pure nonsense the usual political answers waffle and dribble..... any time time they were asked a question about the factorys like movements or price fixing between the factorys or age limits it was mostly ignored

Too right. They didn't answer the hard questions at all . The one from bord bia was cat at it too. Kept on about the grid inspec etc . What about the movements

Robson99

And then RTE give MII the Air Space for the news report, who starts some waffle talk about prices being 2.80/kg at some stage.
Gob****es in RTE...why not let some of the farmers talk

_Brian

Robson99 wrote: »

why not let some of the farmers talk

Ermmm, nobody is interested in what they have to say.

patsy_mccabe

https://www.facebook.com/annerabbitteTD/videos/181415866093464/

wrangler

_Brian wrote: »

One mans mob behaviour is another mans voicing his frustration at a system that is unfair and anticompetitive.

If it were a French meeting likely the top table would have been showered with slurry so wasn’t bad at all in comparison.

Joe Walsh stopped meeting with sheep farmers years ago because of similar treatment, It was foolish of the organisers to set up that meeting, it wasn't going to achieve anything. Indeed the speakers were foolish to be there too. Both Cormac Healy and Bord Bia should've known they'd achieve nothing by speaking after the last meeting