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High Green Farm

Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 349
Location: Mid-Suffolk

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 05 3:04 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

Yes - this counrty..... .

This country or the EU? Discuss.....

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 05 3:06 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

wannabe peasants

TD and I once got called peasants by lout who tried to run us over in his Range/Land Rover; I think he meant it for an insult but I was quite flattered.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 05 3:07 pm Post subject:

High Green Farm wrote:

This country or the EU? Discuss.....

Nowhere in the EU actively discourages smallscale agricultural production with anything like the conviction that UK authorities exert.

(To the best of my knowledge)

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 05 3:08 pm Post subject:

High Green Farm wrote:

Behemoth wrote:

Yes - this counrty..... .

This country or the EU? Discuss.....

This country. We've been propping up French peasants for years and no doubt will be maintaining eastern european communities for some further years.

I've no particular gripe with this. It's support for agribusiness and world trade that gets my goat.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 05 3:10 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

It's support for agribusiness and world trade that gets my goat.

Me too.

Kirstie

Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Posts: 94
Location: Scotland

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 05 11:20 am Post subject:

As Tahir states they can be slaughtered on the premises but only for the farmers consumption, I recently had this discussion with an official as two of my calves were not passported so are not allowed to be moved from my premises, he suggested slaughtering them and eating them, you are certainly not allowed to invite anyone else to eat this from outside the farm.......My take is how would they know.

All this being said it was not my idea to slaughter them as I had reared them and am too attached...bad news for a supposed lady farmer

markjadams

Joined: 06 May 2006
Posts: 109
Location: South West Wales

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 06 4:25 pm Post subject:

"12. There are some circumstances where poultry, farmed game birds and rabbits do not have to be slaughtered in a licensed slaughterhouse in order for their meat to be lawfully sold for human consumption. This is the �under 10,000 exemption� at Regulation 3 of the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995. In essence, under this exemption, a farmer may slaughter on his holding birds or rabbits reared there and sell them for human consumption, provided that he rears and slaughters less than 10,000 of them per year. There are a number of conditions attached to this exemption, and these are set out in guidance from the Agency to Heads of Environmental Health and Trading Standards issued on 4th December 2002 (Annex C). "

Does any one know what the conditions are to qualify for the 10,000 per year exemption?

I am interested in slaughter a few geese for sale at christmas, I would rather not take them to somewhere they don't know and get them stressed.

I am only talking a very small number and they have been raised by myself on my land.

Mark.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Sun Jun 18, 06 5:00 pm Post subject:
Hi Mark - and welcome to the forum. Here's the regulation in all its glory and with all the conditions... https://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19950540_en_2.htm#mdiv3 It would seem that for a few 'direct from the farm sales' the only requirement of that Stautory Instrument is that you keep full records. I have no idea what other Regs might apply though...

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