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Protest to minister: "offensive remark" March 24, 1950

BRITISH farmers have protested to the Minister of Food about what- they consider an offensive remark made by his Parliamentary Secretary, Mr Stanley Evans, at a recent press conference. The remark was to the effect that "we must avoid a situation in which consumers become a milch cow to be milked irrevocably and continuously by our friends of the countryside". "That is one of the most damaging and outrageous statements that could ever be made in the light of present production," said Mr Alan HB Grant, president of the National Farmers Union of Scotland, at a meeting of the council of the union in Glasgow yesterday. He said he had immediately sent a letter of protest direct to the Minister of Food and he understood that the English Union was also making representations. They had also brought the matter to the attention of the Secretary of State for Scotland. He promised that when they received the Minister's reply, this and the letter they had sent would be made public.

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