Vegie growers to feel brunt of fertiliser sales laws. :
"'We find that farmers are being singled out as being the guilty ones when there's a lot of other products in the Australian economy that can be used to make explosives but I suppose that's too hard for the Government to do anything about.'"
Farmers have been the back bone of our nation. We all know how much they do for us, how they suffer in hard times and how we take them too much for granted. I should have thought that the be alert and not alarmed approach would have allowed for some sensible and practical approaches to chemicals we no longer wish to have freely available. A complete crackdown with no negotiations is punishing those people who have been sensible users of chemicals we have endorsed for particular purposes. The discussions as to whether we need so many chemicals in our environment is for another arena. It would make sense , if we are going about this in a level headed fashion, to provide alternatives, to be working with farmers and others and to allow open discussion of the matters so that the viable alternatives can be found. Punishing the innocent and making them suffer unreasonable burdens doesn't make sense to me at all. I thought it was a rally against those who would harm us, not an attack on those who work for us.
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