Meat industry
Sir,—When will the workers involved in the freezing industry realise that they have finally killed the goose that laid the golden egg. Production of lamb has now become so unprofitable that it is now literally a question of do I put the rams out or not? Farmers all over the country are laying off staff and planning to run at least a portion of their flocks dry. I need hardly point out the catastrophic downstream effects such action will have, without greatly affecting fanners’ incomes. We need some rationalisation in the meat industry and this is one sure way of getting it. Let them strike, I say. I am going to relish their cries of anguish next year when they suddenly find they do not have an industry, let alone a job. — Yours, etc., TIMOTHY F. DAVISON. Culverden, February 17, 1986.
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Press, 20 February 1986, Page 12
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