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<blockquote data-quote="CDavidLance" data-source="post: 8079193" data-attributes="member: 154325"><p>The whole business of sustainability and feeding the nation really needs a Royal Commission to pull all the above points together and put conclusions under the noses of the Government ministers and Parliament. It is too big and too complicated for any individual to get their head around everything that needs to be considered. The thinking on this was actually done back in the 1970's, but not enough people were listening.</p><p>Livestock has been branded by urban thinkers as a problem and muddled up with climate change. A farmer from North Devon, who was a soil association member, used to tell me that "Those whom God would destroy, he first makes urban minded". Worryingly, our MP's and Ministers are mostly urban minded.</p><p>I was answering a comment about having to feed a horse on the Vacuum Silage thread and drew the distinction between the natural Carbon Cycle and the Carbon from Fossil Fuels. Farm Livestock is part of the natural Carbon Cycle and it belongs on the planet. Gas, oil and coal from underground are fossil fuels and belong underground. It is the use of Fossil Fuels that is the threat to climate change, not the natural Carbon Cycle, and therefore not Farm Livestock.</p><p>The noise comes from single issue campaigners whose minds are too small to realise that there is more to it than the latest thing they heard at last evening's dinner party. I couldn't agree more that people are the ultimate problem.</p><p>Back to basics. Primates need meat in their diet. We are primates. Farm Livestock is how we service that, and that is part of the natural Carbon Cycle that takes in as much Carbon as it gives out and is therefore Carbon Neutral. No problem with Farm Livestock. The worst of the problem is the people that think that Livestock is the problem. They clearly need the bigger picture explained to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CDavidLance, post: 8079193, member: 154325"] The whole business of sustainability and feeding the nation really needs a Royal Commission to pull all the above points together and put conclusions under the noses of the Government ministers and Parliament. It is too big and too complicated for any individual to get their head around everything that needs to be considered. The thinking on this was actually done back in the 1970's, but not enough people were listening. Livestock has been branded by urban thinkers as a problem and muddled up with climate change. A farmer from North Devon, who was a soil association member, used to tell me that "Those whom God would destroy, he first makes urban minded". Worryingly, our MP's and Ministers are mostly urban minded. I was answering a comment about having to feed a horse on the Vacuum Silage thread and drew the distinction between the natural Carbon Cycle and the Carbon from Fossil Fuels. Farm Livestock is part of the natural Carbon Cycle and it belongs on the planet. Gas, oil and coal from underground are fossil fuels and belong underground. It is the use of Fossil Fuels that is the threat to climate change, not the natural Carbon Cycle, and therefore not Farm Livestock. The noise comes from single issue campaigners whose minds are too small to realise that there is more to it than the latest thing they heard at last evening's dinner party. I couldn't agree more that people are the ultimate problem. Back to basics. Primates need meat in their diet. We are primates. Farm Livestock is how we service that, and that is part of the natural Carbon Cycle that takes in as much Carbon as it gives out and is therefore Carbon Neutral. No problem with Farm Livestock. The worst of the problem is the people that think that Livestock is the problem. They clearly need the bigger picture explained to them. [/QUOTE]
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