Meat: a threat to our planet.

[Hampton]

It’s not meat, stop calling it meat!

 

[primmiemoo]

It’s not meat, stop calling it meat!

Just wait. It'll be I can't believe it's not chicken! chicken.

This next bit is more in line with how my grandparents farmed. Pity she's calling a hen a chicken. Gran would have laughed and gently put her right.

 

[Still Farming]

Bloody show, flipping from rain forests to Penguins in Africa to a goodlifer killing a blumming good laying hen????
Crazy put together to force their messsge through????

 

[Brisel]

What were you expecting? A ringing endorsement of meat eating? At least they gave U.K. meat a relatively easy ride. No mention of what else they would be growing in Brazil to feed the billions of people, nor the 60% of farm land that is not suited to crops.

 

[Spencer]

Didn’t the BBQ in Texas look good..

 

[glasshouse]

W

I think they have hence the move to 'green energy' such as wind turbines, the move to electric cars and taxes on long haul flights in this day and age being the CEO of a oil company probably is n't going to make you Mr Popularity. Unfortunately farming is an easy target because it's spokespeople seem totally out of touch with real life. If you can't convince the public you are doing the right thing then you will have to change like it or not because they will not buy your products.

what will they eat?

 

[Still Farming]

If not eating meat they got to eat something?

 

[kill]

The BBC should be ashamed of themselves.

This really needs part 2 next week showing UK farming. Very odd to go around the world and not show what happens at home.

I personally don't think I will ever eat at Weather spoons again untill the remove their foreign Beef

 

[Treg]

I don't know what everybody else thinks but it would be a really good time for the NFU to bang on about imports.

 

[Danllan]

...Pity she's calling a hen a chicken. Gran would have laughed and gently put her right.

She's a 'scientist', a major 'natural history' presenter on the BBC and she doesn't even know to call a hen a hen... The hippy place at the end is over in Pembs, near Newport I think, and they live like medieval peasants, even at a lower standard than the nutters at Lammas.

I didn't see her making a successful argument against grass-fed livestock, and she won't be able to because there isn't one that stands up to examination.

All she's really done is make an effective case for the moral and green credentials of UK farmed meat.

 

[kill]

W

what will they eat?

Less meat but better sourced ie Uk only? @Guy Smith

 

[Muddyroads]

I don't know what everybody else thinks but it would be a really good time for the NFU to bang on about imports.

The who?

 

[Pan mixer]

They could have made a lot more out about how UK agriculture is better than someone in the US who produces 1 million beef cattle a year for example..
Just a couple of references to European or British farming being 'not like that' was all until you get to the good lifers in Wales....

Does the lovely presenter only eat sour lemons? - certainly looks like it.

 

[Still Farming]

People eating veg and no meat still give off gases,methane ,wastes etc.etc.what studies are gone on these scenarios on the effects with green house gases and climate change?

 

[lloyd]

So she's stopped eating red meat.
1hr of boring dross we already knew to get
to that point.

 

[Muddyroads]

Whilst it was irritating to watch as it was so one sided, and of course made no mention of the environmental impact on growing monoculture plant based food as an alternative, it could be used as as a perfect platform to promote the benefits of local, extensively produced meat. The chances of that happening? Probably zero.

 

[polk_farmer]

So she's stopped eating red meat.
1hr of boring dross we already knew to get
to that point.

So she’s given up a kind of meat, that in the UK, is less likely to be “factory” farmed, than white meat. When the whole program was about factory farming......clever

 

[A1an]

Great documentary, the price of venison should be going through the roof!

On a serious note, shame on the BRITISH broadcasting corporation for not showing the polar opposite BRITISH farming industry.

 

[dan 6170r]

Best bit of the program was when the man killed the chicken and stunned it first by hitting it on the back of head with a bit of wood wonder if the BBC brought it back from the amazon for him to save on air miles and utilities the wood cut down in the forest for cattle grazing !!

 

[Henarar]

Did she mention that the plants that the animals eat actually take in GHG or did I miss that bit