Ciss
Well-Known Member
When will Owen Paterson and DEFRA accept that the cheeap jack cancellation last SEptember of NED (all to save £250000 a year and a doctrinaire bid to get rid of another so-called QUANGO) was key factor in the development of the currrent horsermeat scandal? With no effective paper trail for dead horses (either in within the UK or imported / exported) and beef making extremely high prices every fraudster from Yorkshire to the Yalta was going to jump on this particular money making band wagon and I hope that Xavier Guibert and Dr Fussl make this point very clearly at the EU meeting today. So far only Mary Creagh, opposition spokesperson on DEFRA matters has made this connection-- apart from all of the horse industry including all the PIOs of course -- so it does need hammering home. I'm not going to the National Equine Forum this year but if anyone wants to raise the matter with OP during the Q&A session I am sure they will be supported by everyone there 