ALL the media have got hold of the wrong end of the stick. Pig farmers do not want compensation, but rather compensating for what we are having to pay out, and are still paying: £5.26 per pig sold to aid BSE offal disposal.
The judicial review has been brought to try to force this government to return this money. Pigs are omnivores not herbivores and do not carry BSE, so why had we to subsidise the BSE offal disposal in the first place?
In your comment (June 7) you suggest ministers and farmers' leaders need to thrash out future policy. The NFU has distanced itself from pig farmers, referring to them as a "rabble", as they do not want to upset the beef farmers.
We should not have had to pay this BSE tax and that is what we want returning - not taxpayers' money, but our money which has been extracted from us for this scam.
I take exception to your comment about taxpayers' money. Farmers have always been large contributors to the national coffers, but tragically not at the present time, which must be a great loss to the country.
Mrs P Z Frankland,
Lodge Farm,
Hull Road, Dunnington.
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