Are a lot of younger professors, researchers vegatarian/vegan?

[Pilatus]

I ask the above as I see on the BBC News app today that some “government body” is saying yet again society must reduce their intake of meat to help save the planet.
When we drove up the M6 to Glasgow and back from the Cotswolds last Sunday,I thought to my self as we drove through the area around Tebay and Penrith and I glanced sheep and cattle on the hills, “How on earth can anyone with a brain in there head think those animals are polluting the atmosphere more than me and the rest of us in our internal combustion engine vehicles”unless you are a vegetarian/vegan trying to turn society away from eating meat .

 

[Old apprentice]

It is just to turn attention away from most of there life stiles and other ways that are polluting. It's just ag bashing it fashionable to them.

 

[Jimdog1]

200 recommendations in the report but on radio 4 10pm news the only mention was to reduce meat and dairy consumption.

 

[Top Tip.]

Saw the chair of the climate change committee being interviewed on the news tonight,he looks as if he’s hardly out of short trousers. He’ll have an ology though!!! and be an expert.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

That wasn't the chair, that was the chief exec Chris Stark. He's an absolute c0ckwomble, and a very overpaid one at that (200 grand a year). The chair is someone most people in the agricultural community would know of. It's Lord Deben AKA John Gummer. Yes, the utter w@nkspangle ex MAFF minister.

He, like many others on the Climate Change Committee, have conflicting interests. One of the businesses he's in with makes money out of environmental consultancy.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I ask the above as I see on the BBC News app today that some “government body” is saying yet again society must reduce their intake of meat to help save the planet.
When we drove up the M6 to Glasgow and back from the Cotswolds last Sunday,I thought to my self as we drove through the area around Tebay and Penrith and I glanced sheep and cattle on the hills, “How on earth can anyone with a brain in there head think those animals are polluting the atmosphere more than me and the rest of us in our internal combustion vehicles”unless you are a vegetarian/vegan trying to turn society away from eating meat .

So what do the climate change committee propose to do with the land around there if everyone gave up eating meat, and bearing in mind 65% of the UK is grassland and planting trees on pasture releases carbon held in the soil into the atmosphere?

 

[Jimdog1]

So what do the climate change committee propose to do with the land around there if everyone gave up eating meat, and bearing in mind 65% of the UK is grassland and planting trees on pasture releases carbon held in the soil into the atmosphere?

This is the government remember so they can't even keep up with yesterday's science let alone anything current. Don't worry though because they probably won't act on it either!

 

[DaveGrohl]

I tried watching the Sky News climate change show last night. As soon as they mentioned the CCC I thoight here we go. Stark's face appeared and that was that, I changed channel. The man's a joke. I'd only watched about two minutes up to that point to see what bollox they were going to spout out of interest. I wasn't disappointed.

 

[Plopper]

one of the news channels tweeted about people reducing meat and dairy by 20% , was maybe GB News , I scrolled through about the first 50 comments and I would say 99% were people telling them to Feck off , so most people haven't fallen for this boll*cks just yet

 

[Pilatus]

If the NFU is not questioning government decision makers at high level , about the theory that animals are seriously polluting the atmosphere , what the hell use is the NFU to supporting the British livestock farmer. Even more so,as the President IS a livestock farmer.

 

[Castle Farm]

I have given up eating beef. At 76 my teeth can't cope with it any more, but I spend the odd evening licking a bone or two.

 

[primmiemoo]

So what do the climate change committee propose to do with the land around there if everyone gave up eating meat, and bearing in mind 65% of the UK is grassland and planting trees on pasture releases carbon held in the soil into the atmosphere?

Mammoths.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

If the NFU is not questioning government decision makers at high level , about the theory that animals are seriously polluting the atmosphere , what the hell use is the NFU to supporting the British livestock farmer. Even more so,as the President IS a livestock farmer.

I believe that the NFU Chief adviser on "renewable energy and climate change" has swallowed the whole meat and climate change story and believes it. I would like to be proved wrong.

 

[Pilatus]

I believe that the NFU Chief adviser on "renewable energy and climate change" has swallowed the whole meat and climate change story and believes it. I would like to be proved wrong.

Unfortunately from what snippets I read in the press I would go along with what you say,
NOT GOOD,NOT GOOD AT ALL.
Especially for those of you are farming land which is only suitable for livestock farming.

 

[Top Tip.]

So what do the climate change committee propose to do with the land around there if everyone gave up eating meat, and bearing in mind 65% of the UK is grassland and planting trees on pasture releases carbon held in the soil into the atmosphere?

Rewilding is the buzz word up here ,leave it to the beaver ,lynx and wolves. There are folk with deep pockets who are willing to throw vast sums at achieving this ambition.

 

[Henarar]

How on earth can anyone with a brain in there head think those animals are polluting the atmosphere more than me and the rest of us in our internal combustion vehicles

They are just stupid I spose

 

[BrianV]

Seems somewhat perverse that a government that is trumpeting the fact that it is planning to build at least 300,000 new houses every year plus the roads, industrial units, schools etc, not to mention the extra cars that go with these extra houses to give a home to our ever expanding population have decided that our static number of cows & sheep are the polluters of our world.
What a load of cobblers, we are such an easy target with an NFU with it's head stuck up it's ass doing nothing to contradict all this rubbish!

 

[delilah]

If the NFU is not questioning government decision makers at high level , about the theory that animals are seriously polluting the atmosphere , what the hell use is the NFU to supporting the British livestock farmer. Even more so,as the President IS a livestock farmer.

The NFU can't question Govt decision makers, as the NFU agrees with Govt that livestock are part of the problem.

Ditto the AHDB, who only two days ago told Westminster that we need to replace cows with trees to save the planet.

https://ahdb.org.uk/news/trade-and-policy/horizon-blog-net-zero

This is what your subs and levies are being used for. There is only one way to stop it; for all of you as individual farmers to make a nuisance of yourselves.

 

[Paddington]

I notice that those proposing rewilding do not actually live in the areas where rewilding is to take place, or own livestock.

 

[Pilatus]

Rewilding is the buzz word up here ,leave it to the beaver ,lynx and wolves. There are folk with deep pockets who are willing to throw vast sums at achieving this ambition.

A bit like a FEW arable farmers going down the “I am aiming to try and be carbon neutral by the yr “x”
Could their be a clash ahead between arable farmers with a “carbon neutral philosophy”and livestock farmers whose animals are “meant” to be polluting the atmosphere.
It would be good to hear from overseas livestock farmers, “ Are governments in your countries advising people to eat less meat, as animals are polluting the atmosphere”.