Agreed.
The ban does not include “ high value “ animals eg race horses as they are well looked after when travelling rather than crammed in together for days on end.

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Farmers got a lot less subsidies before the EU, however, they often got a decent price for their produce. The obvious solution is to bring produce direct to the customer. We often buy meat direct from the farmer in the market. It's more expensive but obviously more ethical (which I don't particularly care about) but it's tastier (which I do care about) and healthier. I'm pretty sure co-ops, markets and farmer's markets could actually make farmers fare better than they currently do.
Big farmers will actually suffer, continuing to supply supermarkets, who the f@ck buys non free range eggs anymore? And doesn't everyone drink oat/soya/almond lattes these days? Barely any need for the cheap milk either. So small farms have a future: big farms and factory farms may have to consider change. Particularly when you consider consumer education these days. I just wouldn't buy that crap - it's not ethics, it's taste. I'm not rich but a few quid to enjoy something won't kill me.

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Then you know better than the small farming community and the farming agribusinesses and the Government, each of whom has it the other way around. Which is nice. I recommend you take your ideas to mid Wales.

A helpful consideration of the future there. Perhaps they could adapt like everyone has to in the end. Where I live everyone's a farmer - they do this and alsosell to more 'boutique' type stores. We're obviously far more fancy pants in the West of Ireland than Wales. The issue constantly spoken about here is supermarket prices and middleman prices. Cut them out - go direct to the consumer. Even go online! Such revelations, it's called business and marketing. At the end of the day, farms are businesses and need to think of their business model. If they did that as much as they moan, they'd all be millionaires.

Red and Blue Army!

Bloke offered me 8 legs of venison for 50 quid once.

I told him it was too dear.

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.