Stephen Morgan, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — otherwise known as the ‘farming minister’
Posted on 08/18/2026 9:46:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
Britain’s new farming minister fainted at the sight of meat as he toured a food processing plant, a report claims, as the country’s new left-wing Prime Minister tries to win over farmers the previous government relentlessly attacked.
Stephen Morgan, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — otherwise known as the ‘farming minister’ — a junior minister in the new Andy Burnham government is reported to have taken a queer turn when touring agricultural sites to help him familiarise himself with his new job. Britain’s best-selling newspaper The Sun cites a farmer familiar with the incident, and who said Morgan was being shown around a meat processing plant to learn how food is made, and was taken ill when shown a storage room.
The refrigerated room was said to be filled with “shelves of meat from slaughtered cattle” at a food processing plant in the Lake District, a National Park in north-west England’s Cumbria, and he allegedly fainted “at the sight of meat”.
The unnamed farmer told the paper: “He’d been shown large chunks of beef as well as some steaks but then he felt faint. He said something like, ‘I don’t feel too well — I need a moment’… It’s not a great look for the farming minister to faint at the sight of meat.”
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Didn’t turn me off to having a good steak, however….
I think it was catering to the animal rights movement.
He saw the price....
I can’t imagine what it smelled like. I have driven past pig farms- that was bad enough.
Love that Brit-speak...
All things much better suited to be accomplished by AI Algorithms, in real time, not six months behind.
I won’t dispute that AI may be the best option in some cases at this point.
But I have worked at corporations (before AI was a trend) where the people at the top basically put little numbers in little boxes in little spreadsheets, and they ran the numbers and found out that shareholder value (nothing else mattered) would increase if more workers were laid off. Usually, the most senior, most experienced, most needed people were also the most highly compensated, and so (naturally) they were let go first.
If the only thing that matters is analysis of metrics, then the business runs a certain way.
However, if the human at the top really has deep personal knowledge of the business itself, then that business may run a very different way.
Roberto Goizueta, Coca Cola CEO in the 80s, started as a chemist at yhe company.
Nowadays, you go to university, get an MBA and you get to run a brewery —> then you get to run an airline —> then you get to run a semiconductor plant —> then you get to be Farming Minister. And you probably sucked at each and every one of those jobs because you never really understood what you were doing at any of them.
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The Harvard MBA started the industry-killing process - McNamara’s Whiz Kids.
MBAs are a dime a dozen nowadays, most of them are “educated” Well Beyond Their Intelligence - IE, stupid. They’re lucky I didn’t work for them; would have given them a stroke or heart failure.
I found a couple good ones who knew what they were doing, but they are rare.
Wait until he encounters a manure spreader
Like old movie script writers using a particular phrase to convey meaning yet still have their work approved by the Hays Commission?
Hard to say, Brits have a different way of speaking than Americans do...............
Stephen Morgan, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — otherwise known as the ‘farming minister’
A sausage factory would probably kill him...
Never take a Baptist fishing..............
As a young kid I was riding in my Dad’s truck when he drove to a farm where farmers were in the process of slaughtering a hog as it was hanging from a tree by its hind legs. I found it to be traumatic enough that I still remember it.
I was raised in a very rural area and the local school had an FFA chapter and they did that AT SCHOOL and we could watch!.............
That is an excellent summary of so much of what we see. I don’t understand any company that looks to outsiders before growing and training their own people.
Slightly related, I remember reading an article years ago about the QuickTrip gas station company and their commitment to their standards. This included the drivers of their tractor-trailers that delivered materials from their distribution warehouses to the store, and the quote as I recall from the article said “It’s easier for us to train a QuickTrip employee to drive a truck than to teach a truck driver how to be a QuickTrip employee.” Nobody knows your business like someone who’s been working in your business!
Because korporations prime objectives are no longer about the product or service of the industry they're in. They're financial vehicles for money managers.
The money managers don't want you there to oversee production or satisfy customers, they want you to keep an eye on their money.
And for that you need to know about money, not operations. Let the peasants worry about operations.
MATCH HIM UP WITH THE CANDIDATE FOR IOWA AGRICULTURE JOB CANDIDATE THAT STATED “FARMERS ONLY WORK A FEW WEEKS EACH YEAR”.
I WOULD DEMAND THAT THAT CANDIDATE SERVE AS AN INDENTURED SERVANT FOR A FARMER FOR 5 YEARS......
I’ll bite. Why not?
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