Down On Gordon's Farm

This kind of nonsense may not interest the majority of people who live in towns and cities, but the costs get passed along to them one way or another-

EU tells farmers to tag every sheep in Britain. That's 30 million sheep at £1.50 per tag plus costs of equipment, admin, etc.

Farmers could be taxed for foot and mouth outbreaks. This is policy-making by cretins. The source of the last outbreak, in 2007, was the Pirbright laboratory, not a farm.