Bord Bia Problem

The more I think about it, it's the FSAI we should be picketeted, not Bord Bia. Was it the EU who informed the FSAI or did FSAI do their own discovery testing.

My response to those questions asked will be around the mechanisms to prevent this happening in the future.

I don’t want on to penalise Dawn Farms, they can process QA, non QA, UK and other European Beef, but if they or any other European purchaser uses Irish beef (both QA or non QA), it should come with a caveat that will not allow it to be used in supply contracts that use additional raw material from outside the EU and UK. The reason is simple, until they have water tight checks on their non-European imports, the brand image of all our Irish agricultural produce must have better projection.

This contact may be worth millions to them, but id cut them lose if there putting our health and Agriculture export market at risk which generates Billions. We all work hard enough as it to create a very sought after product.

The Govn't spent a lot of EU political capital voting against the Mercosour deal, for the optics at home. That's why they're peed off with farm orgs.

When i was involved in protesting I'd never run into a building. Like now it was usually easier to walk into the building than walk out. Ithink it was 2000 when they got into the department of agriculture building whenthey wouldn't let them use the toilets, apparently the story was they used a bucket. there was women in the building too.

They were very pleased when the Foot and Mouth story broke and they had to leave the building to concentrate on more important things

I have no evidence to back this up only feelings.

This is an orchestrated gig by the grain growers group. They were originally set up with international help by the VFluence lobbying and bullying club. They have members in Ireland through the agronomy and chemical groups. They had an online group that included journalists as well till some in australia infiltrated the group and leaked it to the Gardian newspaper. One member in Ireland already admitted to being in the group. They were to lobby against organic and livestock production. And promote arable with the most chemical and fertiliser use. In Ireland in the group it's being called promoting productive farming with 4 and 5ton crops being held as the aim. Teagasc are letting them away with it.

The group have paid journalists and lobbyists in Ireland. Their first victim was Phil Hogan. They got him out of his EU commissioner job on golfgate from people following him. Their next was Barry Cowen got on driving offences four years before his appointment to the minister of Ag. Those two would have been cow/beef people. They had to be got rid of as far as the group was concerned.

The aim of the group is to make controversies that don't link back to themselves. A local son of a tillage farmer that farms over 1000 acres did a Nuffield scholarship on beef cattle in Brazil. His father is definitely in the grain growers group. This report was out lately and maybe he showed Adam Woods the show in Brazil using the Nuffield as cover. Murrin was known about too for years. There was no secret and the EU had limits on the amounts allowed.

Still on the journal. Jack Kennedy was a cow man and the editor of the paper. He was gotten rid of prior to this. That left Adam Woods, Siobhan walsh and Aiden Brennan in the journal. Aiden Brennan was totally pro cow till Siobhan brought him to the heartland of Vfluence, ADM's headquarters in Illinois. After, he deleted his tweets about the dairy herd in Johnstown castle sequestering carbon at the rate of 3 ton per acre per year and his picture of the boards about the tillage farms emitting carbon.

Those in the first place never made it into the press in Ireland. Siobhan is also the environment editor in the journal as well as arable and it would have been her job to report it in the paper. She didn't. Aiden did so but only as tweets which he pulled down after his ADM visit with Siobhan.

The grain grower group want Murrin out and their own put in. Most likely the way they are talking a teagasc representative with no experience of selling or commerce. They want all cereal imports stopped and straw imports stopped. They want russian urea. And they want the Bord Bia takeover of IGAS stopped.

(as an aside Jack Kennedy had the representative of the Irish Rural Association at the Tullamore show ask the panel why should cattle farmers suffer if they are asked to use less meal from outside ireland. Siobhan on the panel didn't like it one bit. Jack is gone since and the Irish Rural Association have changed their tune by 180 degrees and have the same spiel as the grain growers.)

Cattle and dairy farmers are collateral damage to all this scheming and planning.

Some of that is real and some is speculation but I wouldn't be one bit surprised if the VFluence group weren't putting the money into the anti livestock billboards that were around the country. All the IFA could do was ask politely where the money was coming from.

The grain growers have totally taken over wexford IFA and the propaganda is constant about grain growing on the local radio as well as the meetings.

Anyway sin e that's off my chest. All of us only see the 1% of what is going on. And the slimy guy talking nice to you is really stabbing you in the back and wanting to use you for their own ends.

Christophers duffys video today on Willie aird is the funniest video ive seen in a long time, aird then replies underneath it after been called a c**t in it haha