If an employer looks after an employees welfare, the benefits to the employer are repaid many times over. This principle seems to have been totally lost for some reason. A loyal, dedicated and trustworthy employee is so valuable to a business, but screwing them creares resentment which in turn costs the business dearly.
ah, we currently get meat from Argentina already. But your saying it'll be cheaper, and you think that'll be good for our beef farmers in the UK?
That nice Mr Fox will get them to agree to sell it to us half price and no doubt some foreign company will buy up all the farms that go bust, and find a worthless high profit crop to grow briefly till the land is ruined.
This is a very valid point. The one thing, from a consumerist point of view, that the "net" has brought us is an almost infinite mind boggling choice, which can be ordered from just about anywhere a mobile phone will operate. No being held up in traffic jams, no queuing at tills or tolerating poor service. In agree with the running shoes, but if you were ordering an identical pair where would you go ? I won't buy a bike online. Mainly because I have an excellent local family owned business who do genuinely take care of their customers, and on the two occasions I have bought on line, both were disasters.
The agricultural industry in the UK has been decimated. The "herd" didn't fully recover after the last foot and mouth outbreak. The UK, Scotland in particular, was the worlds most efficient dairy producer. Leaving the EU, should be a golden opportunity to rebuild the agricultural industry at home. Importing meat from Argentina when you are more than capable of producing your own doesn't make sense. With regards to food safety, at one period every UK slaughterhouse had an in-house government inspector present, which may have averted the recent horse meat scandal, had this practice continued. As the country is leaving the EU, it would be nice to hear our leaders encouraging home grown production. High tech industries and high finance may be good, but a population still has to eat. Vehicle pollution laws are becoming more and more stringent, so why drum up unnecessary ocean going trade with transport vessels that are some of the worst pollutants available.
Well... talk of being unduly optimistic...
It was our government economising that resulted in vets disappearing from many abbatoirs and also led to the BSE crisis when they reduced the required heat treatment temperature for meat entering the animal feed part of the food chain.
My understanding is that all animals intended for human consumption in Ireland are individually inspected by a registered vet prior to slaughter and samples taken post slaughter . Even DNA testing is done on on selected samples . Safety in the food chain is taken seriously in ireland Even with this level of audit and oversight fraud does occur . The horse meat in burgers which was fraud, was found by such testing .
You do have a point, up to a point.. every adult is responsible for their own health and safety, AND has a duty of care towards others. When you assume responsibility for managing others , you also assume responsibility for their H&S. Why because they are no longer free agents, They are required to carry out your lawful wishes. They cannot be expected to know the hazards , unless they have been warned and advised about them. How would the plumber you employ know that you have sacks of radioactive ore stored in your shed, or the electrician that you have flooded the cellar in co2?
He's just a "wind up" merchant playing it for laughs.His Moniker should be "laughing Gas"not Oxygen, don't take him seriously,he's just having fun.
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As I said previously in this thread, I take it as light hearted banter/discussion. A few " bods" on a bicycle forum aren't going to change world politics, but its always an interesting discussion to read others views. If someone wants to get "nasty" and behave like a wasp that's not my problem, I've had a lifetime of dealing with such, face to face. My device has an off switch. Carry on.
You're just not seeing this are you. I said 'that's a cool car' with regards to a picture of a car I thought looked really cool. It was not a Mini. Get it? It was a completely different car. Just liked it so I said that's a cool car. OK so far?
Sounds like the argument people would give me in the 1970s trying to persuade me to buy a Norton or a Bonnie when there was no fricking way I was going to buy unreliable British bikes when the Yamaha's and other Jap bikes were WAY superior.
