Wednesday, 18 March 2015 11:49

Bad attitude

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Your canine crusader will be interested to see whether anything new comes out of the much-hyped MIE report due to be publicly released today.

The Hound understands MIE’s ‘our way or the highway’ attitude of pushing for meat sector reforms has turned off most of the meat companies, as well as many of the bureaucrats and politicians who they will need onside to get anything changed.  This old mutt has observed how the MIE team have been quick to ‘diss’ anyone who dares not to agree with their worldview or questions their ideas, and he wonders if they will remain cantankerous and thin-skinned, as this has not helped their cause one iota.

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