Farmers to blockade meat factories for 24 hours

The first nationwide blockade of meat factories by farmers for almost 15 years will start at 3pm today.

The 24-hour protest, which has been organised by the Irish Farmers Association, represents a significant escalation of the beef crisis caused by poor factory prices for beef since last winter.

IFA President Eddie Downey said farmers have had enough and are not prepared to tolerate loss-making prices any longer.

Meat Industry Ireland, which represents the meat factories, says the blockade is misguided and counter-productive.

The IFA is angry over a price gap of €350 per animal that has opened up between what meat factories in Ireland and Britain are paying for cattle.

They say that Britain takes over half of Irish beef exports and they cannot understand how price increases in the UK have not been passed on to Irish farmers who have been making very significant losses on their animals since last winter.

From this afternoon farmers are going to prevent business as usual at every meat factory in the country for a 24-hour period.

The last time a blockade like this happened was in 2000.

On that occasion the courts imposed very significant fines on the IFA over their action.

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