The United Nations has designated this year as the International Year of the Family Farm and the National Women's President of the National Farmers Union says the message she wants to get out to the general public is that there is a food shortage among farmers as well other segments of the population.
Joan Brady acknowledges that comes as a surprise to some people and she agrees there's something wrong when farmers don't have enough to eat.
Brady explains she remembers vividly watching a television news cast back in 1998 in the middle of a severe and extended crisis in the pork industry, and the newscaster passed on a message from the food bank in Ailsa Craig that pork producers were welcome to come to their food bank and take food off their shelves.
Brady says it's a memory that has stayed with her and she wants other people to know that farmers go hungry too.
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Brady says the fact hunger is a reality in the farming sector still comes as a shock to most people...
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Brady says she still remembers watching a television news cast in 1998 in the middle of a severe crisis in the pork industry....
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