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Poor decision. Goes against everything the EU stands for.
@Christ on a bike!: Not really pal , the EU is corrupt & couldn’t give a flying fig about you me or anyone! When is this going to sink in with people, I’m in favor of the EU but there needs to be massive changes!
@Colette Kearns:
Where is the corruption and who is benefitting from it? What changes do you want to happen? Where do you see that the EU doesn’t give a fig about you? Where has this “corrupt” EU made your life worse? Bit of Brexit banter you’ve got going on there.
@Christ on a bike!: Says the spider to the fly???
@Christ on a bike!: it is everything the EU stands for .. mercentilic big corporate supporting megalith which the UK is desperate to escape.
In truth – the eu had to ignore the farmers since not allowing food imports from south America but insisting on finished good outputs from the eu to be allowed export is one sided ( not to say that eu aren’t one sided – see brexit)
@Christ on a bike!: precisely what the EU is about. We really do forget how they treated us when the chips were down during the financial crisis. Why Irish people are so starstruck by the EU is fascinating.
@Dave Barnaville: wise up will you. Nothing wrong with Brexit if that’s the Brits decision. As for corruption, fairly obvious..
http://www.efddgroup.eu/newsroom/press-releases/eu-accounts-fail-audit-for-19th-year-in-a-row
@Valthebear: The EU accounts are fully signed off every year. The link you have provided quotes a UKIP spokesperson. The myth that the EU accounts are not signed off is just that. A myth.
@John R: you’re trying to spin the eunionist line that the accounts were ‘signed off’ ” implying they’re transparen. t Nothing of the sort as the quoted report rightly said. The misuse of funds by the EU.. Taxpayers money.. is quite staggering.
No problem with the EU agreeing to let Brazilian Beef in with no mention of climate change in Brazil as they are clearing the rain forest to have intense farming such hypocrites the EU while the rest of us are paying for the carbon credits
@Geraldine Fenton: Do not forge the pesticides that Brazil are using that are banned in EU. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/12/hundreds-new-pesticides-approved-brazil-under-bolsonaro People should not eat Brazil even even if it is dirt cheap, it is not good food.
@GO GREEN: Wouldn’t eat South American beef but unfortunately the burger joints and TV dinner suppliers will buy what ever is cheapest. So you’ll never know what you’ll get once you take your eye off the ball.
@Fr. Fintan Stack: Unfortunately you are right.
@Fr. Fintan Stack: “Take your Eye off the Bull” even Father….. Rib Eye
@Geraldine Fenton: Good point.
@GO GREEN: Makes no odds where you buy food from its all full of chemicals from farming whether it be here the US or Brazil…..anyone who thinks otherwise is not living in the real world.
@Geraldine Fenton: exactly
@Peter Hughes: Oh mu God.You’ll have to stop eating altogether!
So much for EU climate action giving the thumps up to Brazil as its leader promises to not leave 1 centimetre of forest standing gutting 239 miles of Amazon rain forest in less than 30 days. The Amazon rain forest is crucial to climate action more than all the green energy in the world. Brazil beef is also riddled with pesticides as their new leader massively increases some of the most toxic pesticides that are banned in the EU.
@GO GREEN: and the pesticides irish farmers use are banned throughout europe
@Oscar: Yes but even worse in Brazil and US – and remember Glyphosate weed killers increase cancer risk by 41% https://pressfrom.info/us/lifestyle/health-fitness/-245599-glyphosate-weed-killers-increase-cancer-risk-by-41-study-says.html
@GO GREEN: Hey if you are as green as you say you are, then why be for any kind of farming at all? Most big commercial farming practices are unethical from a animal welfare perspective, and farming produces greenhouse emissions.
@Pauline Gallagher: Yes farming in harmony with nature not industrial farming that is a disaster for the environment.
The EU is self sufficient in beef and high quality at that, so now they decide to get beef from the other side of the Atlantic ocean shipped over, its not very green, well they can F off with the carbon taxes, we are being told to change our transport which is getting cleaner and more efficient as time goes on, stop using kerosene, gas, turf, wood in efficient boilers and stoves. While at the same time bring beef and other stuff from the other side of the world that chops down trees to make a pasture for the cattle because the soil is so poor, plus ignoring Russia, India, south America, Africa, china plus other Asian countries. And to top it off the media banging on every single day about it with not a bit of criticism to the government about the above mentioned.
@brendan H: Obviously a trade off so the industrialists from the European heartland can make more money. Reminds me of Charlie Haughey telling us to tighten our belts years ago.
Anything Phil Hogan gets involved in usually goes belly up
@Sean Dempsey: Well said Sean. Look what happened to the Kilkenny Team since he became a member of the E.U. trough and snout brigade.
“must be approved by the 28 EU member states”. Should be interesting that one.
This is disgraceful. Time for an EU push back!
@Kieran Feely: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ceta/ceta-chapter-by-chapter/ Chapter 19 is interesting… An Post, HSE, Dept of Social Welfare etc, etc, they outsource everything?
If its a bad deal overall for Ireland and some other EU members then we should have a quiet confabulation with those EU states and decide not to pass it.
If wallonia in Belgium can put a hold on the previous Canada agreement to iron out some issues they had with it then we and some actual full member states can certainly request a temporary block here to request a rethink in certain areas.
Wait, what??
I thought they had our backs covered?
No mention of climate change such hypocrites
There you are now, this is our problem with EU, they say that they will stand 4 Square behind Ireland, don’t be fooled, They will let us down again in October on the Brexit deal . Big Phil, Commissioner for Agri., does he have the interest of Irish Farmers at Heart, not likely. We are feint sold down the Swanie, big time. After this Brexit no deal , we will be F….d, and far from home.
@Eugene Comaskey: further more, the IFA aren’t worth Sh..e, they are all Blueshirts and won’t fight against the Government, also, We gave probably the worst minister for Agriculture of ALL time, he hasn’t a Clue.
Will these other markets be complying with current EU standards on beef production, will there be a equal carbon footprint with the EU on beef production. I think not!!!
@Seán Dillon: is it time we too though about leaving the EUand join forces with Briton
EU was always a con job they betray their own members
@Eddie O’Reilly: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ceta/
More bad news…
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ceta/ceta-chapter-by-chapter/
Bet you the people of France will be out in force putting a stop to this.
A newspaper ran a competition, the winner would be the person that came up with the best catchy headline. You could use up to ten words. The headline that won had two words.
And the headline was “Farmers Happy”.
@davey boy: we need Trump He would tell the E U where to go not like our government smiling and nodding in agreement with all they proposed
Do Brazilian farmers use Angel Dust the same as here?
@Josh Hanners: angel dust has been illegal here with nearly 40 years.
@Young Angus: how many Stars?
And the sires name too please?
Hogan is a blustering buffoon
Irish farming is being phased out.
The irony. Produce beef in South America where vast amounts of lands are cleared for the production of beef or palm oil or soy feed then fly that beef to Europe then travel by road to stores all while Europe is told where in climate crisis.
Why is Creed issuing statements after the fact. Why was he not kicking up a shitstorm while the deal was in the pipeline? Did he know about it even? So much smoke and mirrors from this government.
The next will be CAP going…
So much for global warming. Transporting food, stuffed with antibiotics halfway across the world when the EU countries produce enough of the same but healthier is just immoral and shows that money and profit are far more important.
But it OK to export 200 million worth of goods to Brazil each year? they have similar products available there. A win for economics
@Hooked Kitesurfing: But theirs is lower quality. Irish and eu beef in general are worlds apart compared to south America.
@Hooked Kitesurfing: not so the Beef is not the same standard A win for commercial type farming mas production
Irish farmers are always complaining. Nothing new here.
Surely not phils fault the blame must lie with those who put him there
Used to love the bife de lomo in Argentina. Very tasty!!
All environmental asks of the Irish nation now nullified by hypocrisy. Slash and burn that rainforest for cheap beef.
@Ron: bungalow bliss comes to mind in Ireland. We have the worst environmental record in the EU.
This is an absolute disgrace. One side of the mouth claiming they will work to tackle climate change, while the other side backs massive destruction of the Amazon. Appalling.
I reckon that the beef traders, of which we have a few here, want the opportunity to trade in South American beef, not just in Europe, but elsewhere.
Let’s not forget that such beef was shipped to Iraq under the Irish state export insurance scheme prior to the last gulf war.
Watch this space, armies need feeding.
The Irish are great Europeans. What a wonderful payback for supporting The EU against Britain during the last three years of Brexit negotiations.
People crying because the EU they voted for is being unfair. Deep down, I’m laughing at those poor idiots who enjoy a gangbang so much they ask for a second round. You voted and made your bed, now you can sleep in it.
The World is going to be saved now. According to the many comments in these columns for the last few years it’s the farmers, particularly Irish farmers, that are causing climate change. Now when they’re all put out of business that will all stop. Now go and enjoy your hormone steaks.
But you’d be mad to want to leave the eu.
@Mark Scott: mad to stay in. I bet we leave within a couple of years after the Brits.
Now we can reduce the farm animal numbers and reduce the co2 emissions for the country as a whole..
Screw this deal. We should veto. The EU leaders love to talk the talk when it comes to the impending climate catastrophe but this deal exposes the fact that they have zero intention of walking the walk.
If farming has no future let’s build enough houses on the land that they will be selling off cheaply.
Doing us a favour. We shouldn’t be exporting as much cheap beef as we do.
Find something else to farm or focus on high end specialist meats. Let them destroy themselves for industry.
O yes maybe now the beef will not be like rubber and the more the better
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