JOHN Blunt has never been slow to criticise British farmers for having their snouts in the 'euro trough' before ordering the latest Range Rover, has he?
British farming is currently faced with the worst crisis in living memory, but his silence is deafening.
Come on, John! Buck up and give us your views on the recent reports of European farmers providing the supermarkets with cheaper food than our farmers can produce by feeding various 'goodies' to their animals including dioxins, human sewage, antibiotics, hormones and everybody's favourite - the cause of BSE and CJD - meat and bone meal!
All these little niceties are banned from use by farmers in this country, thank God! What a pity then that while outlawing such horrific practices in this country, the government places no such stipulations on the importation of these products by the supermarkets!
It's akin to banning the sale of heroin, cocaine and ecstacy on the streets but putting them in the shop window at Boots for general sale over the counter!!
The Government must be taken to task for allowing the supermarkets to put their profits in front of the health of the nation. By disregarding the advice of our own scientists and health experts the Government is not just being careless but actually guilty of criminal negligence! Over to you, John - I shall await your comments with interest!
G MOULDEN, Pleasington, Blackburn.
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