The farm jointly owned by Meurig Raymond has twice been the site of incidents which have led to successful prosecutions“It’s simple,” a civil servant at the government’s environment department, Defra, and once told me. “When we want to know what our position should be,we ask the NFU [National Farmers’ Union].”There are not many organisations in Britain - though this country is infested with lobbyists of every persuasion - with a grip on policy as tight as the National Farmers’ Union. huge conservation bodies (the National Trust, RSPB and Wildlife Trusts have a combined membership of some 6 million) are locked out, or while the NFU seems to collect everything it wants.
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Source: theguardian.com