The Sligo chairman of the Beef Plan Movement, Gerard Pilkington, says farmers in his group he has spoken to have not got any written confirmation that legal actions and threats against them by meat processors have been dropped.
That’s despite Cormac Healy from the processors’ group Meat Industry Ireland insisting the legal moves have been dropped.
The Minister for Agriculture has condemned the scuffles that occurred yesterday between beef farmers and Meat Industry Ireland representatives ahead of the first planned meeting of the Beef Taskforce.
Protesting farmers, angry at legal threats against some colleagues still being in place, led to the talks being suspended before they even began.
IFA President Joe Healy said the refusal of Larry Goodman and the ABP group to lift all the injunctions against farmers was petty and mean spirited, and amounted to Larry Goodman giving ‘two fingers’ to the Minister.
The Beef Plan’s Mr Pilkington says his movement is now asking Mr Creed to ensure the legal actions and threats have really been removed.
