I AM glad I do not live in a country in which the Government capitulates to terrorists. That is to say I am glad that I don’t live in Spain.

COMPASSION in World Farming supports the farmers’ call on the Government to keep them on the land.

THE agriculture minister, Joe Walsh, has been quoted recently as saying that the setting up of a new committee to advise on animal health and welfare issues combined with his establishment of a Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Council (FAWAC) reflects his own and his department’s commitment to dealing effectively and transparently with animal health and welfare issues.