- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
"The man who can smile when things have gone wrong ..why are so many people anti farming, or is it just the fact that industry has been successful at pointing the finger of blame, at us, for climate change, or just because successive guvs have subsidised their food, by paying us subsidies, or just jealousy, or ignorance.
I don't have a problem with veggies, or even vegans, everybody is free to do what they want, within the law, in the UK, i do object to the lunatic fringes of both, having experienced some., they should not 'preach' their views to the public with such fanaticism. Even so, some of them must be intelligent people, and it's becoming more public that farming and livestock, are the solution to the carbon problem, probably the only viable solution.
So, not only do we provide the essential part of living, food, we also have the solution to the carbon problem, ag, far from being 'bad', we are actually in the driving seat. It's what can we do to change that view ?
Just to muddy the waters, there's a thread on here, official, ploughing is good for the organic matter of soil, by the scottish coll of ag, 5% increase in om on intensive farming. And on this thread, ploughing isn't found to be 'helpful', in fact in our case, it's unhelpful, the plough should just be another tool in our armoury, to be used when necessary, like to plough our kale stalks in.
.. has thought of someone to blame it all on"
in a nutshell
I think these empty vessels know deep down that it's "our" fault, but it's more convenient to play the blame-game than face up to the reality that it's materialism, commercialism, and consumerism that is and has damaged our planet and her ecosystems.
(again, it wouldn't be so, without agriculture, because they'd be busy scavenging and gardening instead of having time to worry about what everyone else is doing wrong)
At least that's my answer as to why farming has a bad rap. That, and farmers themselves