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THE GOVERNMENT’S BEEF Market Taskforce is due to hold its first meeting this morning.
The group was set to gather in mid-October but was prevented from meeting after protesters blocked industry representatives from entering the Department of Agriculture.
The Taskforce was agreed to by beef farmers and organisations, and representatives of the beef processing sector in October following weeks of protests.
It’s one of a number of measures, along with a new bonus payment for quality assured cattle, which was set out in a deal brokered by Agriculture Minister Michael Creed.
Farmers had accepted the deal in exchange for the meat industry dropping all legal actions brought against protesting farmers who blockaded the gates of processing plants.
Speaking ahead of today’s meeting, IFA National Livestock Committee Chairman, Angus Woods, said that farmers won’t tolerate the Taskforce becoming “another talking shop” and that is “must deliver real results on cattle price and market transparency to quell farmer anger.”
Said Woods: “Farmers are angry at low prices and the failure of factories to increase the prices they are paying farmers despite a significant strengthening of prices on international markets for beef and other meat proteins.”
Woods said that livestock farmers need to see “an immediate price increase and results on a focused range of issues that deliver concrete progress on issues that matter to farmers, with a price increase being fundamental to farmer confidence and support”.
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They’re probably telling porkies.
P.S. No one knows what consciousness is… Is this not cruel?
So David Camerons pigs head probably knew what was going on?
@Ananya Sharma: someone had to ..
The Oinking Dead!!!
@Alan Duffy: Don,t tell Francy Brady
Did they do this because they watched Flatliners as kids?!
I always wonder does SciFi inspire inventions….
Pet Sematary
@Xanadu Marmalade: Sometimes dead is better
Cruelty. Pure and simple.
What a disgusting study. What have humans become in their search for immortality. Yuck.
@Dermot Foley: ah, curious?!
Wow , it’s going to be messy BBQ’s in years to come … ….
So there’s hope for politicians!!!!
Under current legislation it’s ok to stick your head up your arse while people are homeless…while we give cash to the f.a.i.
Frankenstein reincarnate
Wow , it’s going to be messy BBQ’s in years to come … …. in my day pigs were killed and they stay killed
Hope for trump
I read an article before where it was predicted in the future , scientists will be able to translate and display what animals think , feel and comprehend.
That future generations will look back at the savagery of our intensive factory farming techniques in horror.
Not to mention the environmental hazards it causes
It’s aliveeeee It’s aliveeee
fools i told you I’m not maaaad
soon ill kill you all hahahahaha
Interesting info. Now O need to find a source in actual English. #gobacktoschool
@Ian Phillip Creaner: Maybe take your own advice?
@Diarmuid Hunt: Unkike you, I use a phone, not a computer. Also unlike you, I have spell check switched off. It cannot deal with the 7 languages I generally communicate in. This game is fun, but unlike you, I have a life to get back to. Oh one last fun one. Unlike you, I have man hands.
@Ian Phillip Creaner: You made some great assumptions there with no information so well done you. I’m using a phone, I’m a man using my hands, I don’t jump on other people’s mistakes unless they make it while trying to point out others’ mistakes. You can’t have much of a life considering all the things you found ‘fun’ in your last comment. Anyway have a good one.
@Ian Phillip Creaner: “the 7 languages I generally communicate in”. Nice humble brag mate.
That’s sick
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