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BBC at it again re meat and climate
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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7814645" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>So, let's get this right. The aircraft industry is a massive emitter of GHGasses and is allowed to offset those emissions and escape taxes by buying and having trees.</p><p>UK cows are tiny emitters that have been around in about the same numbers or more since time immemorial which are on land that absorbs GHG and anyway whose gas has a short half life so that the cows <strong>never actually add</strong> to CHG's, unlike transport, energy and industry other than agriculture. </p><p></p><p>Then there's this offsetting. Why are other industries allowed to offset by buying farm land yet farmers can't use their own land to officially offset. I have valleys on both sides plus hedges full of trees, never mind all the grassland that should have equal offsetting status to land that oil and transport companies are buying up for this express purpose with official approval. Why are my cows and land not treated equally?</p><p></p><p>Why is the bloody No F'in Use not even trying to get this message across rathe than agreeing that cows are a problem and giving ammunition to those, like George Eustace, that are aiming to impose tax on the food we produce, which will indeed speed up the elimination of animal farming in much or rural UK and ruin massive numbers of family businesses. Their own members!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7814645, member: 718"] So, let's get this right. The aircraft industry is a massive emitter of GHGasses and is allowed to offset those emissions and escape taxes by buying and having trees. UK cows are tiny emitters that have been around in about the same numbers or more since time immemorial which are on land that absorbs GHG and anyway whose gas has a short half life so that the cows [B]never actually add[/B] to CHG's, unlike transport, energy and industry other than agriculture. Then there's this offsetting. Why are other industries allowed to offset by buying farm land yet farmers can't use their own land to officially offset. I have valleys on both sides plus hedges full of trees, never mind all the grassland that should have equal offsetting status to land that oil and transport companies are buying up for this express purpose with official approval. Why are my cows and land not treated equally? Why is the bloody No F'in Use not even trying to get this message across rathe than agreeing that cows are a problem and giving ammunition to those, like George Eustace, that are aiming to impose tax on the food we produce, which will indeed speed up the elimination of animal farming in much or rural UK and ruin massive numbers of family businesses. Their own members! [/QUOTE]
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