Many years ago, I campaigned against the way farmers in the U K were  dosing their animals with hormones and antibiotics in order to fatten them up more quickly so they could make bigger profits.

The Farmers told me that I did not know what I was talking about and continued on their destructive path to ruining the food which we eat.

I saw a two page article this week in the national press which was truly horrific, even if half of it was correct.

Animals are kept in the most terrible conditions, dosed with antibiotics, never see the light of day, suffer all kinds of illness and disease  and this truly dreadful way of treating animals which are being reared for food is having a catastrophic effect on us all.

We are continually being warned by the medical profession that the human population is becoming immune to antibiotics, but it would appear that Farmers are continuing to feed animals drugs in the name of profit which  has a serious effect on the health of the population.

Despite allegedly, being a nation of animal lovers, we blithely buy eggs which are produced by hens which are crammed into cages in which they have no space to even turn round, we buy beef from cattle which are kept in what can only be described as fattening factories, and we eat pork from pigs who have never seen a blade of grass.

Then we wonder why we have all developed mysterious allergies  and diseases.

For those who have a romantic notion about farms where animals roam free and chickens are seen running about in the sunshine, I suggest they  visit a local cattle farm or a battery hen farm. They might well change their opinion.

One has to question why we are becoming such an unhealthy nation.  The NHS can barely cope, diabetes, obesity, asthma and allergies to this that and the other are becoming more prevalent, and perhaps the answer lies very close to home, with those who do not care about our health, but who care very much about making money.

Money is no good whatsoever if we are all too ill to spend it.

I was accused thirty years ago of attacking our wonderful farmers. Pity I did not keep up the attack