Anyone can set up an organisation which purports to represent a sizeable number of individuals or businesses in a certain industry. Then, so this organisation has a guaranteed income it can ask the people it represents to pay an annual fee. So far, fair enough. However, under the Commodity Levies Act 1990, the organisation can apply to government to have these fees made compulsory, so that everyone in that particular industry, whether they belong to this organisation or not, support it or not, by law must pay this levy each year. A compulsory levy is a tax.
Taxation is legalised theft.
A sixteen-page briefing to the then associate Minister of Agriculture, Denis Marshall recommends that the Minister agree to the levy being made. Elisabeth Hinton scoffs at that. They claim to represent the growers to the government. This is ludicrous. They also claim they advise ENZA on grade standards.