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		Farmyard Flatulence Letter to E Mids newspapers - Thursday, 28th June 2007 Dear Sir UK farmers are facing a new round of EU lunacy.  They've had to cope with the most difficult decade ever, with BSE, Foot and Mouth and the rural payments fiasco.  Now the EU is blaming farmers for global warming, because of methane emissions from livestock.  I have been asked to sign the European parliament's Written Declaration no. 0036/2007, which will demand an investigation into livestock farming; propose a report ("Livestock's Long Shadow") that says livestock is the greatest threat to the planet; and demand a reduction of cattle emissions. Agriculture is fundamental to human survival.  I shall certainly not be signing this declaration, which is not only unnecessary, but damaging to an already struggling industry.  The EU needs to back off our farmers, and we need to back off from the EU. Roger Helmer East Midlands Conservative MEP