Agri-industry must manage waste properly

IN response to Anne Keohane’s letter (Irish Examiner, August 20), let me point out I didn’t come up with the statistic indicating that agriculture is responsible for 75% of waterways pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency did.

Agri-industry must manage waste properly

Secondly, UCC boffins confirmed the whale in Cork harbour died of natural causes before it was dumped. Thirdly, if there was intensive farming anywhere near Dollymount Strand in Dublin, we’d still be waiting for the Blue Flag.

Yes, we are all responsible for pollution, but if you want confirmation of the agri-industry’s belief that it is not bound by the same rules as the rest of us, look at the opposition to the EU’s phosphates directive. Ireland’s water does not belong to the farming community to pollute as it will - it belongs to all of us.

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