Peter Bryant's letter in the Guardian Newspaper

[RoryTheRed]

David Miliband (Letters, February 13) says he will continue to report developments in bird flu openly and accurately. Your leader (February 10) says it is impossible for Defra to be entirely deaf to producer interest. How right you are.

 

The decision to let the processing of turkeys to resume at Holton is a kick in the teeth for all other poultry producers and those others of us affected by the ban on gatherings. It would seem that the might of a large regional producer, right in the middle of infected premises, is getting special dispensation.

 

What about all the other activities, commercial as well as social, in unaffected parts of the country? Many other poultry producers, as well as traders in the racing-pigeon industry, would agree that their financial activities have been curtailed by the ban on gatherings. Considering that Defra still does not know for sure how or where the avian flu arrived at Holton, then it is all more incredible to let Bernard Matthews restart operations.

 

It makes a mockery of the status of the protection zone and is an insult to those well outwith the restricted area whose activities have been curtailed by the banning of bird gatherings.

 

Peter Bryant

Royal Pigeon Racing Association

 

[Guest TAMMY_1]

FIRST CLASS LETTER , GOOD TO SEE SOME RESPONSE FROM SOMEBODY DIRECTLY AT  DEFRA/GOVERNMENT MINISTERS

[Guest]

Yes..........follow up needed now with TV, difficult get on national news (but I'm sure Peter is trying) but perhaps regional secretaries could get on the local news?

[Guest]

It is good to see something positive being done in the press, tho the guardian may not be the most read paper amongst us.  

 

Brand Expert on BBC News 24 this morning reckoned BM products have taken a 50% dive in sales. Consumer confidence rather nothing on the shelves I think.

 

David Milliband's website has a blog with two subjectsof interest to us: bird flu & the hungarian connection. Hungarian Connection has about 20 comments to date (today). I'm going to have a go at that one but I intend to put some thought into it first, just a few short punchy & telling sentences rather than a long and rambling precis.

 

 

http://www.davidmiliband.defra.gov.uk/blogs/ministerial_blog/default.aspx