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nishikigoi:
Right, let's see a generic answer to this...... :(biggrin):

Sent 21/8/06

Like many others I have been deeply disturbed by your latest campaign, I was stunned to see an old friend in the video....in an office....in the city!

It is a shame that you did not show the full story for the hapless victim in your video, for as I knew him so well I just had to contact him. Knowing him to be of ancient farming stock, I just had to know what had befallen him and his kin to cause this, his tale was a harrowing one.....

Forced to take a job in the city to subsidise his father's family farm that has been hit repeatedly by misfortune and prejudice. Having lost the right to control the badger population in their cattle farm they had to watch as the entire herd fell ill to Bovine Tuberculosis and were destroyed and burnt. As a young man he watched as again they were hit by the threat of CJD and again all their stock was destroyed and burnt.

His fathers heart broken, he had to explain to his son that the farming life was not a secure proposition for raising a family. He also explained that as the compensation offered was such a derisory amount and the CJD scare had hit just as European subsidies had been removed. His only option was to allow a set of mobile phone antenna to be erected, some of the set aside land would be used for lucrative genetically modified crop research and development into baby milk, however over a mile of hedgerow dating back to the dark ages would need to be removed to provide larger crop areas and a efficient harvest. This money would last about three years, but some of the hill side land they owned could be strip mined once the wooded areas had been cut down to make pizza boxes. The old barns too could be converted into trendy apartments, once the Owls had been removed and the bats access obstructed

His son pleaded with him to reconsider, but the practicalities of financial viability were overwhelming unless another way could be found?

So his son, heavy of heart changed the focus of his studies. No longer a student of the local agricultural college, he would now study in accounting to secure a lucrative job and be able to avert disaster for the family farm. Every day he makes a weary journey from Burnham into Slough trading estate, it is not far only 3 miles but culturally a thousand miles from 'home'.

Still he always has the weekends and evenings to enjoy his beloved farm, driving the perimeter to check fences and make routine maintenance of the dry walls they so nearly lost forever, on the weekends he leads a local outreach group by taking disadvantaged children canoeing on the Thames locally, he also takes the farms produce directly to the public and sells in a farmers market from a trailer.

We sit and talk long into the evening about life in the city versus life in the country, we watch the sun go down as the bats squeak their echo location to navigate the barn and take evasive action as the owls glide effortlessly across the yard, looking for an inattentive mouse.

He is little preoccupied making Biofuel from some of the rape seed crop they produce, keeping a low carbon footprint by running their farms oil burning stove on Biofuel as well as running the farm tractor and his 4x4.

I take my leave as he has an early start, a delivery of candles from the glycerine by-product to deliver as well as some salt lick around the boundaries of the farm for the deer.

I tell him I'll stop by again soon, he insists I take his mobile phone number 'just in case', but I've got your home number I say.

He explains that the job is not working out too well, there have been a lot of personnel issues and he has had work load issues within his team. Recently he found some abusive comments had been attached to his jacket, upsetting his six year old daughter as he had not seen them until he got home and hung his jacket up. He is also concerned that there have been other harassment issues with obscenities made towards him and thinks he even caught one of the office staff spitting in his coffee!

I am stunned and ask what action had been taken? None at all he explains, apparently this is considered suitable behaviour and the personnel manager has said she is too busy to deal with this before she flies out for a holiday spear fishing in Australia. Still, he always tries to be friendly and courteous to all his co-workers, but looks forward to the end of the day and smiles every time he picks up his cars keys and sees the 'Superman' key fob his wife gave him as a token of all the hard work and choices he has made, she knows how hard working nearly a hundred hours split between an office and the farm can be.

I leave him and his family, wondering what crime he has committed to be treated in such a tragic manner and saddened by the narrow mindedness of human mob behaviour.

I hope when you next see him you give him my warmest regards and perhaps you could pass the video evidence to the personnel manager at his office, I am sure this would stop the harassment he has endured and be just cause for the immediate dismissal of those involved.

Regards,

Andrew Davies[/i]

Lets see them squirm that!

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C C:
It brought a tears to my eyes... :oops:

nishikigoi:

--- Quote from: "C C" ---It brought a tears to my eyes... :oops:
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Bless...... :sobsob:

att:
Most excellent =D>

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