"Michael McNeil" wrote in message
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"Alastair McDonald" k wrote
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Have I got back OT? Have I gone OTT?

It has gone HOT. But at least someon's happy about that. Where did all
that sulphur and phosphorous go and the nitrogen in all this so called
fossil fuel? Or is it called fossil fuel because like certain other
types of depositions they are full of fossils?

As far as the Welsh farmer being unhappy with his lot, what makes him
so different from his counterparts elsewhere on the globe? Whatever
the harvest, the commodities market will cut what profits the weather
spares him.

First I should apologise for the political nature my post to which you
responded. It was written as a personal reply but got posted to the
news group in error. I have cancelled that post but obviously you had
down loaded it before the cancel took effect.

The point is British farmers (not just Welsh) are being driven out of
buisness and their farms are being converted into golf courses, theme
parks, and motorways. When global warming kicks in, rapid climate
change is a distinct possibility, as is the desertification of the continental
interiors. This could lead to grave disruption to food supplies, and I
believe that British governments should follow the precautionary
principle by preserving our agricultural heritage, and not destroy it

Cheers, Alastair..





But he has a better road to market now than he had.

"Yet true it is, as cow chawes cud,
And trees at spring doe yeeld forth bud,
Except winde stands as never it stood,
It is an ill winde turnes none to good."
(From "A description of the properties on windes all the times of the
yeere" by Thomass Tusser)