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November 20, 2007
let them eat money
It might seem the fairest thing in the world to make farmers pay towards the cost of clearing up animal and bird disease like foot-and-mouth, bluetongue, avian flu, swine fever and bovine tuberculosis.
After all, as we're told so often, the polluter pays. It's their animals or birds that get ill. Why should that poor overburdened individual, the taxpayer, pick up the tab?
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November 7, 2007
women woo farmers
Not so long ago Welsh farmers were horrified to find they had a woman exercising political control over their affairs - and a vegetarian at that.
In fact Christine Gwyther was not so much exercising control as trying hard to handle an extremely hot potato.
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