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Single European Cows - Stop the madness!
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:58 pm
by formerly known as hf
Under the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) of Europe - every single cow in Europe gets $2.50 a day - less than many whole families in the global south get paid in a week. Whatsmore - this money goes straight to the farmer's account - with no checks to make sure it gets paid on the cows.
Well done (for once...) to TB for (finally) bringing the madness of the CAP into direct question
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:03 pm
by Cookie
....death to Mugabbi.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:24 pm
by Schme
Muggabi? What's he ever done to you to warrant such hostility....Poor Robert....Never harmed a soul....
I have to say I agree with you though, farmer. The cows should get the money.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:26 pm
by Cookie
schme wrote:Muggabi? What's he ever done to you to warrant such hostility....Poor Robert....Never harmed a soul....
Yeh poor Robert, har de har mate. Not a freind of a certain Bernard Maning are you Schme?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:20 pm
by Surly
Its Mugabe...
And CAP? Don't get me started on CAP...
EDIT: I wonder if that would create a profitable new market? All these cows with money to burn... Intriguing, no?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:19 pm
by kinvoya
Seriously, how are those cows supposed to get their fur styled and hooves polished so they can attract the bull(s)? That totally sucks.
And maybe they would like to go to Starbucks once in a while just to relax. Have those damn, theiving, evil farmers ever though about that? I doubt it.
Support our uttered sisters! Bovine unitus!
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:31 pm
by Schme
Cookie Monster wrote:schme wrote:Muggabi? What's he ever done to you to warrant such hostility....Poor Robert....Never harmed a soul....
Yeh poor Robert, har de har mate. Not a freind of a certain Bernard Maning are you Schme?
I'm not a "Freind" of anybody.
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:32 pm
by formerly known as hf
?
I'd rather neither the cows nor the farmers got my money. I'm not too happy in knowing that my taxes get sent over to some smelly French guy just for owning some stinky cow...
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:35 pm
by Cookie
And you think the cost of rearing a cow is less than £2.50?
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:50 pm
by formerly known as hf
no
but why should they be given money? They produce something (milk/meat) they get paid for it by selling it - why should they get extra, just because they have cows?
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:52 pm
by Cookie
No, because of BSE, Foot and Mouth and every other thing which harms there livelyhood.
Guess where the heighest suicide rate was in the uk four years ago. Cumbria. Why, foot and mouth.
Have you ever seen a rich farmer?
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:47 pm
by Antichrist_Online
So why is it the french are given greater ammounts of money than the Brittish farmers? They are also given the same ammount of money to not grow things on arable land. Brittain uses satelites to check on our farmers making sure they don't. The French get more money and still use the land anyway.
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:08 pm
by Nick
OK, europe is officially nuts.
You pay your cows salaries?
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:30 pm
by Cookie
Tis nothing compared to what you Canadians do to your mooses.
Antichrist_Online wrote:Brittain uses satelites to check on our farmers making sure they don't.
?? Right.
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:33 pm
by nitefyre
Cookie Monster wrote:... what you Canadians do to your mooses.
That sounds kind of suggestive
What do Canadians do with their mooses?