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["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Thanks for sending this Lawrence. It has been on my mind for a while now.
And it is not just these regulations that make life difficult. Since the end 
of WW2 food has been steadily getting cheaper. Maybe nor for the consumer 
but definitely for the producer. A finished 45 kilo lamb now makes about 20 
% less than in 1985. 70 years ago one fleece of wool paid a farm worker for 
a week. Now we recycle the wool because it would cost more to deliver to a 
collection point than the price we would get.
John

> Attn: John D'hondt - LL
>
> To quote a friend:
> "ridiculous environmental law, and layer upon layer of regulation designed
> to strangle small enterprises and give the ultimate advantage to
> multinational corporations"
> and
> "What they are doing in the EU (and even more so, in the UK) is making it
> impossible for small farmers to be able to continue to farm. Artfully
> devised new regulations are making it impossible to make a living off the
> produce of the land-- thanks to the same kind of thinking we're seeing 
> here
> in the Food Safety Act. They're just a few years further along than we 
> are."
>
> <>
>
> l_03020090131en00160099.pdf - LexUriServ.do
> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:030:0016:0016:EN:PDF
>
> THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
>
> COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 73/2009
> of 19 January 2009
> establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the
> common agricultural
> policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, amending
> Regulations (EC)
> No 1290/2005, (EC) No 247/2006, (EC) No 378/2007 and repealing Regulation
> (EC) No 1782/2003
>
> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:030:0016:0016:EN:PDF
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