Solicitors’ letters from five meat processors were received by individuals in the Beef Plan Movement, its chair Eamon Corley has told the Irish Farmers Journal.
He said that the letters received on Thursday evening were from ABP, Dawn Meats, Kepak, Liffey Meats and Slaney.
“Some emails were received and some people got letters delivered by courier,” Corley said.
Requests
The Irish Farmers Journal understands that the letters include requests from the factories that Beef Plan protesters stop disrupting people from entering factories, stop taking pictures of people and stop trespassing.
It is understood that a deadline of 10am on Friday morning was included in the letter.
It is also understood that the factories warn that injunctions will follow unless those requests are met.
“Beef Plan are addressing it,” the Meath man said.
“Personally, I see it as an aggressive move by the meat industry,” he said.
“Farmers have a legitimate right to protest. We acknowledge that some people have breached the guidelines, but when that has occurred we have addressed it. We issued guidelines to our members.
“We are entitled to have a peaceful protest.”
Talks
“We are looking for talks. We want to sit down with Meat Industry Ireland and representatives from factories and some retailers,” he said.
“We see tomorrow [Saturday] as an opportunity to do that. There will be no kill tomorrow.”
He said they wanted to sit down with factory representatives as a separate group to Meat Industry Ireland because they could negotiate on price, whereas Meat Industry Ireland could not.
“We are willing to talk to those groups without any preconditions,” the Beef Plan co-chair said.
“Tomorrow is a golden opportunity for those talks.”
“A working solution needs to be found.”
While Corley said that no formal talks are currently planned for Saturday, the Beef Plan intends to send a communication to Meat Industry Ireland today (Friday).
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Solicitors’ letters from five meat processors were received by individuals in the Beef Plan Movement, its chair Eamon Corley has told the Irish Farmers Journal.
He said that the letters received on Thursday evening were from ABP, Dawn Meats, Kepak, Liffey Meats and Slaney.
“Some emails were received and some people got letters delivered by courier,” Corley said.
Requests
The Irish Farmers Journal understands that the letters include requests from the factories that Beef Plan protesters stop disrupting people from entering factories, stop taking pictures of people and stop trespassing.
It is understood that a deadline of 10am on Friday morning was included in the letter.
It is also understood that the factories warn that injunctions will follow unless those requests are met.
“Beef Plan are addressing it,” the Meath man said.
“Personally, I see it as an aggressive move by the meat industry,” he said.
“Farmers have a legitimate right to protest. We acknowledge that some people have breached the guidelines, but when that has occurred we have addressed it. We issued guidelines to our members.
“We are entitled to have a peaceful protest.”
Talks
“We are looking for talks. We want to sit down with Meat Industry Ireland and representatives from factories and some retailers,” he said.
“We see tomorrow [Saturday] as an opportunity to do that. There will be no kill tomorrow.”
He said they wanted to sit down with factory representatives as a separate group to Meat Industry Ireland because they could negotiate on price, whereas Meat Industry Ireland could not.
“We are willing to talk to those groups without any preconditions,” the Beef Plan co-chair said.
“Tomorrow is a golden opportunity for those talks.”
“A working solution needs to be found.”
While Corley said that no formal talks are currently planned for Saturday, the Beef Plan intends to send a communication to Meat Industry Ireland today (Friday).
Read more
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