- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (27 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0715631446
- ISBN-13: 978-0715631447
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 852,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Even before the foot and mouth epidemic British agriculture was already in its death throes. Struggling under the onslaught of successive crises - the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy and the bureaucratic demands of the EU; food scares from salmonella to BSE; the spread of intensive farming and the concentration of buying power in the hands of the retail giants - British farming has been brought to its knees. Who is to blame? The government, the farmers themselves, supermarkets, the CAP, the EU? In this book Dr Richard North investigates the many causes of farming's imminent demise. His list of suspects is long, and his analysis pinpoints the guilty parties. There may just be a breath of life left in the corpse of British farming, but only if clear and successful policies covering land management, subsidies, government controls and how to deal with scares are formulated.
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As for vaccination in relation to FMD, there is not only a vibrant debate on this subject, world experts such as Prof Fred Brown have advocated the same and both the EU Commission and the OIE are reviewing their position.
Finally, conspiracies there may be... theories they are not. The exposition on BSE and the activity relating to the concealment of the potential problem of vaccines using bovine material is a faithful record of the BSE Inquiry and the evidence submitted (which I checked in person). The activity on the Belgian dioxin crisis is taken from the Belgian Parliament official inquiry, translated personally from the French. The salmonella in eggs analysis was based on a seven year study, much of which contributed to my PhD thesis which, of course, was subject to rigorous academic scrutiny.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Essential reading for all who care about Britain,
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This review is from: The Death of British Agriculture (Paperback)
"The fate of agriculture is intimately bound up with the fate of democracy itself....no civilisation has ever survived the loss of its agricultural base" concludes Dr North at the end of a most worrying, informed and penetrating survey of the legislation that has led to the situation British rural communities now find themselves in. Dr North knows intimately the ways of successive bureaucracies who have managed, by a combination of well meaning bungling and carelessly imposed regulatory burdens, to put British farming at a disadvantage. Although known to be an energetic and witty Eurosceptic, Dr North does not lay very much of the blame for the plight of British agriculture at the feet of the EU Commission. It is, to our shame, Britain itself that has so mismanaged food scares, EU regulation, the CAP and - especially - the recent animal diseases. The book is both depressing and exhilarating. Dr North is under no illusions about the many sad mistakes to have hit the farming industry but he also has sensible suggestions for avoiding complete catastrophe. He writes in an accessible manner which avoids any kind of sensationalism. Far from jumping on bandwagons, he looks closely and critically at the many conspiracy theories of recent months and debunks them, seeing much more to worry about in the narrow self-interests of scientists, big business and empire building government departments. Criticisms of current farming practices are looked at very coolly, as are the complaints about unfairness from the supermarkets. Even MAFF/DEFRA, the department who so grotesquely mishandled disease control, is dealt with fairly - although he pulls no punches when looking at, for example, the dirty dealing that led to the loss of so many British slaughterhouses. If anyone still wonders why so many thousands of concerned people in Britain have been calling out for a proper public inquiry into the government's handling of the foot and mouth crisis they need only read this book. They will then see the foot and mouth crisis to have been just the latest in a long line of tragic errors - a final straw that cannot be ignored.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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An extremely valid account...,
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This review is from: The Death of British Agriculture (Paperback)
This is a most timely book on the topic of agriculture in Britain today. Dr North is only too aware of the lessons that should have been heeded. This is particularly so in relation to the FMD crisis which has altered so many lives and meant the untimely and unnecessary death for millions of animals and not just farm animals. The evidence is there (including scientific evidence) for all to see that VACCINATION should have been the way forward.An excellent and readable account.
3 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointingly sensationalist,
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This review is from: The Death of British Agriculture (Paperback)
I had hoped for a more informed and more analytical approach to the undeniably serious problems that are facing UK agriculture. North lashes out indiscriminately at practically everyone, and in particular government agencies. Conspiracy theories abound. North's acceptance of one of the wackiest explanations for BSE (OPs) and his advocacy of vaccination as opposed to stamping out for FMD suggest he is not fully informed at least on animal health issues. One has to suspect that his comments on other issues may be based on similarly limited information.
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