Shocked at Fianna Fail decision - 30-04-09
Sir, It's shocking to read that Fianna Fail has joined the Liberal/ALDE group in the European Parliament. While many people will be aware of this group's support for abortion, embryonic stem cell research and euthanasia, what is often less known is the group's complete hostility to the Common Aricultural Policy.
While others may call for the reform of CAP to reduce the amount of red tape that is now strangling small farmers, the ALDE Groups' view on reform is for massive cuts in the CAP budget and the slashing of almost all subsidies payable to farmers.
The ALDE Group's models for success are large factory farms that simply do not exist in this country. Small farms do not have a place in the ALDE Group's big picture on agriculture. And lest Irish farmers underestimate the antipathy of this group to the farming industry as currently structured, it should be noted that the ALDE Group takes pride in the fact that it led the assault on the EU's sugar and sugar beet industry, a policy that destroyed the Irish sugar Industry.
If Fianna Fail joins this group it will further bolster the ALDE Group's capacity to push this agenda.This is not just a matter of farmers and farming families. The Irish economy cannot sustain the loss in jobs that inevitably would arise if the ALDE Groups' view on agriculture was to prevail.
In fact one fails to see any reason see why Fianna Fail would align themselves to such a group. It is my
humble view that in the interest of the economy Fianna Fail must immediately reconsider it decision on this matter.
Yours,
Maura McCaughey
6 Glenview Park,
Grange, Co. Sligo
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