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Well, I will definitely concede to your superiority on all matters connected to Foie Gras, very impressive. That point made, it is a practice that is tolerated by the EU institutions isn’t it? So, they are not so progressive on animal welfare as the UK is now and will be if an importation ban...

I may be wrong but hasn’t the UK Government banned production and more recently, since Brexit, importation of Foie Gras in the UK? I suspect neither production or importation of it into other EU countries is banned in the EU. If you love geese and their welfare you should support Brexit.

Couldn’t agree more, my local has a number of farm workers in there, and they care about their animals. The local dairy provide veal regularly to the pub in order to ensure calves are slaughtered locally and not shipped to Europe where there is a far bigger appetite for that meat. It may be...

You may be making a fair point in this country and particularly with the younger generations, however globally the picture is less rosy. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/feeding-9-billion/ The world is heading to a global population of 9bn by 2050 and in general terms there are...

I reckon I can predict what what will happen now…… I will say what you think you know about me and what you are posting is wrong. I will offer a challenge to you, consisting of charity payment to a charity of our choice. You pay if I prove you wrong, or I pay if I cant. We can get a mod to...

A wise man once said, “rules are for the blind obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men” and you are providing a great practical example of a fool. The BBC, as you have confirmed, are not pursuing over the 75s that have not paid their licence fee. Therefore if you are over 75, do not...

Stop singing.

Dave, I’m sure if we had a thread about climate change some on here would be in rapture about beef and dairy farmers topping themselves…….especially if they were the type that spoke plainly about gayest, supported Leeds, liked Jimmy Carr, engaged in fox hunting and kicked their cats.* Delete as...

Stop it you nutter…… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/14/global-farm-subsidies-damage-people-planet-un-climate-crisis-nature-inequality You’ll be telling me the earth is flat next?

And yet if you were as confident as you think about the popularity of the BBC you and the other BBC zealot rabble, would be relaxed about moving to a subscription model that did not criminalise non payers, in particular the poor. That you’re not speaks volumes……..the opposite of being liberal...

Nope, once again you are quite wrong, to quote the Director General. “We are not sending any enforcement letters to older people who previously held a free licence.” If you are 75 or over you do not need a licence fee……..it’s free, just like it always was. Your point “Why should anyone use a...

The licence fee is still free for over 75s? https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/over-75s-no-legal-threats-non-payment-licence-fee-bbc-boss-tim-davie-923079 None of my relatives that are over 75 pay for a licence…….don’t tell me you know over 75s that are? Jeez, they say a fool and their money are...

I read recently how back in the 70s Monty Python were invited to Germany to perform in a show and when they had a couple of spare days their “minders” drove them about to various places of interest. During one of these spare days they were taken to Dachau. When they got to the entrance the...

Too right, with over 52,000 posts on here someone is evidently spending way too much time online, you really need to get out more.

Deary me, calm down Gilesy, earlier you said the CAP has failings so any industry that is so reliant on Government subsidies in the way the Agriculture does in the EU and by extension the U.K. must need major reform. Exiting the CAP is an opportunity to do that, and the first step to that...

Removing subsidies is like reducing welfare, it’s not going to be popular with those who receive it. Remaining in a trade bloc that actively discourages competitive imports (that could benefits its consumers) with excessive tariffs to protect itself from open and functioning markets is doomed...

Well, when you say bias……… https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-to-review-why-women-make-up-76-of-licence-fee-convictions-70tkv3pmn This is why the BBC in its current guise is toast, politicians will not be able to standby whilst overwhelmingly poor women are being dragged through the courts...

Oh sure, those “poor old farmers” will definitely go bust without subsidies……… https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2016/09/29/common-agricultural-policy-millions-eu-subsidies-go-richest-landowners/...

Personally, I think if Stalin and Mao were anything they were communists in tooth and claw. Their commitment to communist principles like the collectivisation of farms is what led to catastrophic famines in China and Russia. Blind commitment to a broken political ideology is what killed...

Hmm, it would seem to me that if food security and reducing costs of living were to be taken seriously by the EU then they would be tearing up the Common Agricultural Policy, which sustains food prices at levels that would be subject to down ward pressure if supply was increased whether...