Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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peter,farmers get a better price for live meat,in fact allmost double the frozen/chilled price.like most buisness people they are out to make a decent profit.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
oh well another nail in the farmers coffin.just think all those jobs lost because of some busy body who likes stoking sheep on the hoof.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,883
The English lamb eaters over the water will hopefully have to put up with chilled or frozen lamb, it is barbaric transporting them live hundreds and hundreds of miles just so they can be slaughtered abroad.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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If that only applies to Ramsgate then I am sure it will hasten the move of the trade to another Port.
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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and the same will happen to any other port that is silly enough to take the trade martin.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Not a case of being silly enough Howard, as Dover found out to their cost, they have no choice in the matter. If other,means can stop the trade then I will be delighted.
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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can't see any port wanting the business martin, the trade is not big enough to warrant the disruption that goes with it and with the new regulations coming in the extra costs might deter farmers anyway.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I think 9 out of 10 would like to see the end of it,I for one would like it to go this way,but if I am right in my thinking if a UK port is a open port,it is the law of the sea that they must take what ever lorrys or what ever a ship will bring it in the way of goods etc,the port itself does not have a say in the matter.
Chris- Forum Admin
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Oct 2009
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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-"Although the case was brought by the exporters, Defra also gave evidence, advising, according to RSPCA, that it is not necessary to provide emergency facilities at the port itself and that the existence of contingency premises within an hour's drive is sufficient safeguard for animal welfare."
-"There is no lairage in Kent,the sheep from this particular shipment were returned to Northampton after waiting at the port for many hours while a transporter was found and delivered to the port."
Quote from article (link below) and from a comment thereto...
http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/livestock/live-exports-to-resume-from-ramsgate-after-court-ruling/50575.articleIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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A naive statement from our MP, DHB tried to stop the trade years ago and were fined very heavily for doing so, nobody wants the trade in Dover but it will take a change in the law for that to happen, perhaps that is where he should concentrate his energies?
Audere est facere.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
should be a intresting turn out down there,might pop down there with camera to see if i can catch some banchies whalling.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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there were rumours that p and o have been carrying trucks with live animals on their night sailings, doubt it personally as it would be too difficult to keep quiet.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Feed 'em a few Mickeys and they'll be quiet enough, Howard.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
looks like Dover might be used
its not good for Dover
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
I hope the police have better tactics than they did at Dover previously. I'd best not put into print what I witnessed.
Terry
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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I could to Terry
depending what it is you mean
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