Extinction Rebellion and Farming

They must be treated like terrorists..:mad:
Likewise when the haulage companies tried to blockade the refineries . The Multi- agency people were all over them taking their operators licence numbers , and were told that it would go badly with them when the said licences came up for renewal . Many of the drivers were small operators or even one man bands , who couldn't afford such aggro , and the protest fairly quickly fizzled out . Unfortunately most , if not all of the big distribution companies didn't join , as apparently they had a clause in their contracts to vary their contract price in line with fuel prices . I think the big outfit with the green units were one of those with nothing to lose as the price of fuel escalated . (Just in passing "How are the mighty fallen ? " ) I read somewhere that trade in their shares had been suspended , and that the CEO had stepped down - did he fall , or was he pushed ?
 

n.w

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western isles
Looking at the Welsh news, it looks like they’ve concreted their arms into blocks. Fuzz busy taking photos of said arms and thinking how to free them. Said it could “take days”

Once these XR bods start to pee off Joe Public, they’ll rapidly lose support. Anyway, they’ll need to be free in time to collect their giro

it is funny how they get so much time off work.. ;)
 

Raider112

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Likewise when the haulage companies tried to blockade the refineries . The Multi- agency people were all over them taking their operators licence numbers , and were told that it would go badly with them when the said licences came up for renewal . Many of the drivers were small operators or even one man bands , who couldn't afford such aggro , and the protest fairly quickly fizzled out . Unfortunately most , if not all of the big distribution companies didn't join , as apparently they had a clause in their contracts to vary their contract price in line with fuel prices . I think the big outfit with the green units were one of those with nothing to lose as the price of fuel escalated . (Just in passing "How are the mighty fallen ? " ) I read somewhere that trade in their shares had been suspended , and that the CEO had stepped down - did he fall , or was he pushed ?
The man who built it up was shunted aside by money men who thought they knew better. He's trying to get back now, can't remember the details though.
 

glasshouse

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lothians
Likewise when the haulage companies tried to blockade the refineries . The Multi- agency people were all over them taking their operators licence numbers , and were told that it would go badly with them when the said licences came up for renewal . Many of the drivers were small operators or even one man bands , who couldn't afford such aggro , and the protest fairly quickly fizzled out . Unfortunately most , if not all of the big distribution companies didn't join , as apparently they had a clause in their contracts to vary their contract price in line with fuel prices . I think the big outfit with the green units were one of those with nothing to lose as the price of fuel escalated . (Just in passing "How are the mighty fallen ? " ) I read somewhere that trade in their shares had been suspended , and that the CEO had stepped down - did he fall , or was he pushed ?
The protest didnt fizzle out, they were bought off with a few empty promises
 

curlietailz

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Arable Farmer
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Sedgefield

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“From the above article....Critics have previously claimed the committee is dominated by animal rights extremists, but the charity, which has 1,750 employees, has denied this.

Until this month Mrs Tredgett was also a director of the RSPCA’s ‘Freedom Foods’ offshoot, which certifies animals have been ‘ethically’ farmed.”
 

Ffermer Bach

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Livestock Farmer
How about the Brazilian rainforest is being lost at a rate of one hectare a minute to make beef grazing?

The tragic thing is, we can easily grow all the cattle we need, on existing grassland; at the same time regenerating the (often desertified) land and sequestrating carbon dioxide from the air and locking it those poor soils, making them healthier and restoring the water cycle. In fact good farming is the only hope for humanity (at so many levels), but the way industrial agriculture is currently practised isn't helping.
our young people seem to be scientifically illiterate, who are keener on "virtue signalling" and listening to sound bites rather than really seeing the bigger picture, I hope I am not becoming "Victor Meldrew"!!

Listening to costing the earth the other day, I was shocked to hear about the loss of the rainforest and us nearly being at a tipping point, but all I hear on social media is become a vegan!
 

Ffermer Bach

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Livestock Farmer
Don't go vegan to save the planet. You can help by being a better meat-eater.
Daniel Payne Opinion contributor
Published 7:00 AM EDT Sep 21, 2019
There are millions of self-described vegans in the United States; recent estimates suggest they are up to 3% of the population and possibly more. They have a host of reasons for justifying their animal-free diets. For one, they argue, animal husbandry is brutal and cruel toward animals; two, they claim that animal farming is ruinous to the environment.
Vegans are not precisely wrong about all of this, but they're only half-right. It is true that industrial animal farming is ecologically destructive, that it is cruel and barbarous, and that many if not most of the animals unlucky enough to be a part of it suffer in ways that are difficult to comprehend. All of this is well-documented and undeniable.
But it doesn’t necessarily follow that you have to go vegan. If you’re uncomfortable with animal farming, but are unwilling to adopt the vegan lifestyle, you don’t need to stop eating meat. You just need to eat better meat.
Less abuse, more environmental care
The steaks, ground beef and rib chops you buy in most supermarkets is the end result of a long chain of abusive farming practices. But consumers now have the option of buying better, cleaner, more humanely raised and less environmentally destructive meat.
Today it is relatively simple to find beef, pork and chicken that has been raised locally, on pasture or in woodland, from animals that were allowed to live their lives according to the dictates of their biology, that were happy and content while alive, and that were eventually slaughtered with very minimal suffering. That kind of farming isn’t just good for animals, either.
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Norman Nick inspects grass-fed cattle at the Nick Ranch on July 25, 2006, near Santa Margrita, Calif.
MICHAEL A MARIANT, AP
Numerous studies indicate that this meat is better for you in every respect compared to the low-quality stuff one finds in the supermarket .The implication of these studies is that livestock that is allowed to live a healthier life will produce healthier meat.
Vegans, of course, generally object to eating any kind of meat on moral grounds. Yet you can make a solid moral argument that it's perfectly ethical for humans to eat animals.
Healthier meat, healthier climate
Human beings are part of a long meat-eating evolutionary chain stretching back millions of years; our bodies and our physiology have been shaped countless millennia of a meat-rich omnivorous diet. There is compelling evidence that eating (and eventually cooking) meat essentially created modern human beings; all of that protein gave our ancestors’ brains distinct evolutionary advantages over lower primates and other mammals. Humans did not suddenly stop being part of the food chain just because we evolved; there’s nothing wrong with eating the way we evolved to eat, so long as it’s done appropriately.
Resist social pressure: Don't let vegetarian environmentalists shame you for eating meat. Science is on your side.
Healthier meat also makes for a healthier local environment, which can over time lead to a healthier climate. At a time of growing concern about pending catastrophic climate change, this benefit can't be overlooked.
The industrial food chain is heavily dependent upon both monocultural agriculture (large-scale growing of a single crop) and fossil fuels. Mass-produced livestock eat a simple diet of just a few types of crops, and the whole industry requires massive amounts of fossil fuel to house, raise, feed, slaughter, package and transport all of those animals all over the country, all the time. The endless fields of corn, wheat and soy needed to supply this system, meanwhile, have an erosive effect on the soil in which they’re grown, generating significant runoff, poisoning local waterways and weakening the overall health of the biosphere.
Pastures can cut carbon emissions
Local pastured farms, meanwhile, not only eschew this destructive paradigm, in some ways they reverse it. Well-managed pastures, in which native grasses are encouraged to grow through regenerative farming practices, can actually function as highly effective carbon sinks that suck up carbon dioxide and store or sequester it to keep it out of the atmosphere. And silvopasturing (raising livestock in pastures planted with trees) also serves to sequester carbon that would otherwise be released. can actually produce healthier forests, leading to more carbon sequestration.
Risky work: As line speeds increase, meatpacking workers are in ever more danger
Vegans make some good points regarding the brutalities and inefficiencies of modern agriculture. But eating responsibly and eating vegan aren’t necessarily synonymous. You can still eat meat while protecting and in some cases improving the environment. And producing this meat entails far less animal abuse than the industrial system.
That’s a win-win. You don’t have to go vegan; you should just be a better meat-eater.
Daniel Payne is an assistant editor at "The College Fix."
Published 7:00 AM EDT Sep 21, 2019
by Taboola
 

Werzle

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Midlands
Jane Tredgett Vice Chairwoman of the rspca resigns after being exposed as a vegan extremist who called for smithfield meat market to be shut down. F##king b#tch
 

david ll

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Pembroke
About 5% of production is moved out by road the rest either by pipeline or by sea. So it was a minor inconvenience really but a point was made by using the alternative route.
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
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NSW, Newstralya
Shamelessly borrowed from Damon Gameau . . .

What is frustrating about the people who are deriding our children for taking to the streets is their lack of understanding about what the children are marching for.
The children aren’t just marching for climate change. They are marching because there is ecological collapse all around them. They march for the predicted 60 years of topsoil that is left for them, for the dwindling fish populations that, when combined with the soil, threaten the very foundations of civilization. They march against the levels of deforestation that continues to rise in many countries, for the species extinction rates that are now up to 1000 times higher than normal and they march because on our current path, the oceans will have more plastic in them than fish by 2050.

We should all be enraged by what is happening to our planet. Our home.

These children are rallying against the trajectory of a system that is stealing and plundering resources from their future, selling those resources today and making many people other than them very rich in the process.

Those that accuse the children of being ‘brainwashed’ need to look closer at the narratives they themselves are regularly consuming. Narratives that want us all to turn a blind eye to these ecological dilemmas because of the threat they pose to a ‘business as usual’ story we have now so firmly entrenched.

I would urge all of those doing the deriding to take a closer look at those narratives and then ask: Who are the ones really being brainwashed?
 
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SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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