Subj: UK FARM CZAR TELLS FARMERS TO GET DAY JOBS
Date: 8/13/2001 12:25:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: PHOENIX
To: Rayelan
Hi~
So perhaps the Foot & Mouth Disease "crisis" was an act of bioterrorism to achieve RURAL CLEANSING.
It appears the plan is to replace the farmers with Global Corporate companies & change other farms into "things more related to the environment" (translated; a UN land takeover).
Klamath Falls may be a similar RURAL CLEANSING op.
According to the new UK FARM CZAR:
"On the one side, there'll be quite large commercial farms producing goods competitively in the global market," he said. "Then there will be a lot of small farms run by part-timers with things more related to the environment.
THE government was bracing itself for a backlash from the countryside last night as a minister and the new "farms czar" appeared to turn on farmers hit by the foot and mouth outbreak.
Lord Haskins, the "farms czar", has suggested small farmers get a day job to make ends meet, while it was reported that Elliot Morley, the minister with responsibility for animal health, had dismissed farmers as an "ungrateful lot".
From:
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/08/12/stinwenws01049.html?
Phoenix
August 12 2001 BRITAIN
Country czar tells farmers to get day job
Sophie Kirkham
THE government was bracing itself for a backlash from the countryside last night as a minister and the new "farms czar" appeared to turn on farmers hit by the foot and mouth outbreak.
Lord Haskins, the "farms czar", has suggested small farmers get a day job to make ends meet, while it was reported that Elliot Morley, the minister with responsibility for animal health, had dismissed farmers as an "ungrateful lot".
Haskins has just been appointed rural recovery co-ordinator, with responsibility for helping struggling farmers back to their feet. But he has outraged many with his views on the future of farming.
"On the one side, there'll be quite large commercial farms producing goods competitively in the global market," he said. "Then there will be a lot of small farms run by part-timers with things more related to the environment.
"I can see people milking their cows in the morning, working on a BMW assembly line during the day, then milking their cows in the evening."
On another occasion he said: "What I know is that in this foot and mouth crisis, the people who have economically come out of it best of all have been the farmers who have had foot and mouth."
Ben Gill the president of the National Farmers' Union, described the peer's comments as offensive and said: "Lord Haskins is a farmer, but these comments suggest he has completely lost touch with what the countryside is doing."
Ian Johnson, of the Southwest National Farmers' Union, said that many farmers were wary of Haskins's new appointment, considering his position as chairman of Northern Foods and Express Dairies.
"Because of his background as a food mogul, hearing his views is like listening to a diatribe on blood banks by Dracula," he said.
Morley made his feelings known in a letter sent to a constituent last October in which he stated: "The point I would make is that no one in this country has a guaranteed right to an income or a living and that businesses change all the time. I sometimes think that farmers are a pretty ungrateful lot."
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs last night said that Haskins had been speaking unofficially, before his appointment takes effect tomorrow, and that Morley had been commenting outside his departmental capacity.
"Lord Haskins is known to be outspoken and he was speaking as an individual who is entitled to his own views," it said.
"Mr Morley was acting in his capacity as a constituency MP, writing to a constituent, and this is therefore not something we would comment on."
It emerged last week that about 40 farmers have each received payouts of £1m-plus for loss of livestock due to the foot and mouth epidemic
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/08/12/stinwenws01049.html?
