Climate change Committee report

[Whynot]

Did anyone else see this yesterday!?
It says that a 20% cut in Red meat and Dairy products is needed. It also recommends raising cost of high emissions foods, BY CUTTING FARM SUBSIDIES BY 70% AND RAISING VAT!
I have copied the BBC News page link below.

Climate change: Big lifestyle changes are the only answer

The experts tell us that small, easy changes alone will not be enough to combat climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting times!

 

[steveR]

Did anyone else see this yesterday!?
It says that a 20% cut in Red meat and Dairy products is needed. It also recommends raising cost of high emissions foods, BY CUTTING FARM SUBSIDIES BY 70% AND RAISING VAT!
I have copied the BBC News page link below.

Climate change: Big lifestyle changes are the only answer

The experts tell us that small, easy changes alone will not be enough to combat climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting times!

Let them eat Grass, I say....

 

[steveR]

Did anyone else see this yesterday!?
It says that a 20% cut in Red meat and Dairy products is needed. It also recommends raising cost of high emissions foods, BY CUTTING FARM SUBSIDIES BY 70% AND RAISING VAT!
I have copied the BBC News page link below.

Climate change: Big lifestyle changes are the only answer

The experts tell us that small, easy changes alone will not be enough to combat climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting times!

Ban air travel would be a major start...

 

[jondear]

Tesco ad campaign started with child telling daddy . She doesn't want to eat animals anymore apparently.Havent seen it .link anyone!

 

[Whynot]

I heard the same ad on the radio yesterday, while unblocking my vaddy drill! It didn’t help my temper.........
The problem we have as an industry is that it is all one way traffic, we need to get positive stories out there.

 

[Bill the Bass]

I think Germany are already seriously considering higher VAT rates on meat products. We are all and truly loosing the battle at the minute, I know it’s a populist view but I am beginning to think we have been well and truly let down by our trade associations, unions and levy bodies.

 

[jondear]

What with all this negative about our industry all the time and a bad TB test yesterday my mental health is knacked ATM . Wasn't that a few days ago!

 

[delilah]

I think Germany are already seriously considering higher VAT rates on meat products. We are all and truly loosing the battle at the minute, I know it’s a populist view but I am beginning to think we have been well and truly let down by our trade associations, unions and levy bodies.

here's something to ponder:
try to name any other industry that, in proportion to the amount of sh!t thrown at it, does so little to promote itself at a national level.

 

[betweenthelines]

Like 99% of the stuff on climate change, the BBC item only quotes 1% of the report! No reference to industrial carbon emissions or to what actions other nations are going to take. Bit pointless if every household stops buying sausages & everyone cycles to work, if Uncle Sam continues to use gas guzzling cars, Brazil keeps the forest clearances going and China builds gas fired power stations so that their Industries can continue to churn out consumers goods (usually plastic) for the West. And if everyone eats less meat & dairy but replaces it with Californian almond milk, industrially processed soya (from Brazil) meat substitute, imported fruit & veg, will there really be any gain. Best things everyone can do to reduce carbon emissions is to buy locally grown "in season" food, ditch foreign holidays, turn the central heating down a few degrees and use public transport if possible. Not only saving the planet, but saving money as well!

 

[ISCO]

Tesco ad campaign started with child telling daddy . She doesn't want to eat animals anymore apparently.Havent seen it .link anyone!

Seen it a couple of times this week. There will be no loyalty from supermarkets if they can see a profit in plant food.

 

[ISCO]

I think they push less meat as it is the easiest thing most people can do. Replace beef burger with plant burger. Everyone feels so much better and can continue flying, driving buying goods without guilty conscience.

The industry needs a good spokesperson. Media savy, knowledgeable and well spoken to defend the industry.

 

[delilah]

The industry needs a good spokesperson. Media savy, knowledgeable and well spoken to defend the industry

absolutely.

A red meat champion

Seems to me the industry needs to head-hunt a red meat champion: - High public profile - Respected, rather than jokey. - Intelligent enough to take on board and articulate the points made on TFF re climate change and livestock. - Media savvy. - Available. - Affordable. Suggestions ?

thefarmingforum.co.uk

As has also been suggested on here, a selection of media savvy farmers around the UK should be put on a retainer with a remit to get themselves in/on their local media at every opportunity and tell the positive story of British red meat.

 

[Canada Farmer]

Did anyone else see this yesterday!?
It says that a 20% cut in Red meat and Dairy products is needed. It also recommends raising cost of high emissions foods, BY CUTTING FARM SUBSIDIES BY 70% AND RAISING VAT!
I have copied the BBC News page link below.

Climate change: Big lifestyle changes are the only answer

The experts tell us that small, easy changes alone will not be enough to combat climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting times!

The question also has to be asked, just how credible is the BBC or any other media outlet?
Given the media in all forms seems to have their fingers in the till, who in their right mind takes any of them seriously more so when said articles have nothing to back it up or worse , corupted data.
Must like the use of the Swedish child at the UN, one thinks maybe its time to turn the heat on the media for some proper journalism and true impartiality without biased poor journalism.

 

[Scribus]

The question also has to be asked, just how credible is the BBC or any other media outlet?
Given the media in all forms seems to have their fingers in the till, who in their right mind takes any of them seriously more so when said articles have nothing to back it up or worse , corupted data.
Must like the use of the Swedish child at the UN, one thinks maybe its time to turn the heat on the media for some proper journalism and true impartiality without biased poor journalism.

About as credible as the 'climate change experts' themselves.

 

[Henarar]

Did anyone else see this yesterday!?
It says that a 20% cut in Red meat and Dairy products is needed. It also recommends raising cost of high emissions foods, BY CUTTING FARM SUBSIDIES BY 70% AND RAISING VAT!
I have copied the BBC News page link below.

Climate change: Big lifestyle changes are the only answer

The experts tell us that small, easy changes alone will not be enough to combat climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting times!

stupid twits, tax what can be the most environmentally friendly food there is if its done the right way instead of promoting doing it the right way,
what are they going to use the tax money for ? the big wigs to fly off to a climate change summit most likely, you couldn't make this sh!t up if you tried
as someone else said let them eat grass stupid bunch of pricks

 

[Gong Farmer]

We just have to survive until 2022. That's when the next IPCC report comes out (the one everyone treats as gospel) admitting that the bulk of evidence now shows climate change is due to the sun, not human activity. They have already publicised the report as saying so.

Of course, there's still plenty of time for the report to be redacted/edited/ rewritten to give the opposite view.

 

[jonnieboy]

Perhaps farming should fund an ad
Little girl handing out pictures of the empty wellies on mental health day
Saying please don’t shop at Tesco I don’t want to loose my daddy

 

[betweenthelines]

Just remember, the consensus of scientific opinion in the 1980's was that thousands of people would die of vCJD and John Gummer (Minister of Agriculture) was accused of threatening the lives of his children by buying them a burger. Then there was crackpot Currie and her "most poultry is infected with salmonella" comment.

Reality is that vCJD deaths are actually so few as to be statistically insignificant, Gummers kids have grown up fit and healthy and Currie had more chance of catching something from john Major that from a boiled egg (although the egg was probably more interesting)

 

[Canada Farmer]

About as credible as the 'climate change experts' themselves.

On par with Trudeau, that bad?

 

[Bald Rick]

Fascinating documentary on BBC 4 by Ian Hislop on Fake News recently.

Ridiculously easy to spin anything you want IF you want to believe