Meat of all Types is Short!

[Dave6170]

If the WWF get their 'basket' thing pushed into Red Tractor, aided and abetted by the NFU meat (and dairy) is going to be a lot shorter in the future...
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In fact, so will the contributors to the Livestock & Forage pages..

....... 50% less meat and dairy will surely mean one in two of our businesses will cease to exist.

Shocking! Should be massive protests against like what the Germans are doing!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Was it ever not in fashion?

Not in this household but I think the media has made it out so the public drifted off it slightly but they look like they are back on it now

 

[soapsud]

the only saving grace might be the number of farmable acres is reducing & the population is increasing so the proposed reduction might be 50% per capita but not 50% reduction in output

I forget where, but an economist last year predicted house prices will continue to rise in Summer 2024 after inflation falls. Allowing the middle classes to get a breather, by re-financing their main assets. However, a few will have had enough and will start selling up altogether, leading to more wide spread emigration, eventually by 2040, the UK will just be a few elites, their bean counters and the poor. The theory is called Neo-feudalism!

But seriously, if meat gets scarce and is mainly imported then the corps will have an even greater control of price, whether livestock farmers downsize or not.

The fake meat companies doing badly also reflects badly on the false propaganda that goes with it - that only green economics can save the environment and we must all pay for this.

Here's Katie Hopkins (at the end) countering vegan empathy and sentiment on why she sopposes vegans tend not to breed.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Not in this household but I think the media has made it out so the public drifted off it slightly but they look like they are back on it now

Here it [vegetarianism + veganism] only topped out at less than 2%, but media reports "accurately" "always" thanks to "accountability" "journalistic integrity" "public interests"

 

[Top Tip.]

If the WWF get their 'basket' thing pushed into Red Tractor, aided and abetted by the NFU meat (and dairy) is going to be a lot shorter in the future...
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In fact, so will the contributors to the Livestock & Forage pages..

....... 50% less meat and dairy will surely mean one in two of our businesses will cease to exist.

Has anyone actually pulled the NFU up on this. I’ve forwarded it to NFUS head office to see if they can give them a boot up the backside. The reaction I got was pretty much one of shock.

 

[David.]

Local proper butcher still happy to make us 50lb of sausages for £6.99kg this morning..

 

[milkloss]

the only saving grace might be the number of farmable acres is reducing & the population is increasing so the proposed reduction might be 50% per capita but not 50% reduction in output

Not so sure……. Between 2000 and 2016 an extra 101.9 million hectares was bought into production worldwide.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/cropland-world-map/

 

[yellowbelly]

Has anyone actually pulled the NFU up on this. I’ve forwarded it to NFUS head office to see if they can give them a boot up the backside. The reaction I got was pretty much one of shock.

I'm not a NFU member but I believe their council has 'squared up' to the NFU hierarchy over it.

It's all tied in with the GFC proposals made by Red Tractor, in conjunction with the British Retail Council (which is basically supermarkets) which they propose to roll out on April 1st.

 

[Hesstondriver]

Not so sure……. Between 2000 and 2016 an extra 101.9 million hectares was bought into production worldwide.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/cropland-world-map/

sorry i was thinking uk only

 

[Top Tip.]

Not so sure……. Between 2000 and 2016 an extra 101.9 million hectares was bought into production worldwide.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/cropland-world-map/

I would question those figures. Looks to me as if someone read the wrong decimal point on the calculator.

 

[milkloss]

I would question those figures. Looks to me as if someone read the wrong decimal point on the calculator.

Just something I came across and apart from a quick read I haven’t revisited it.
Quite happy for anyone to further some info.

 

[milkloss]

sorry i was thinking uk only

I did understand that but seeing as we seem to have a gov that thinks everything can be imported…….kind of going off on a tangent like I usually do!

 

[Henarar]

we should all be eating MORE red meat for health reasons, not processed crap but steak etc, most nutritiously dense food on the planet, lot of people cutting out carbs and going carnivore and feeling great

Plus its one of the most sustainable and environmentally friendly foods you can eat.

I'm not a NFU member but I believe their council has 'squared up' to the NFU hierarchy over it.

that is funny

who won ?

 

[BuskhillFarm]

According to the latest farmers weekly, "meat" is being smuggled into the UK, in massive quantities, from the seizures the customs have done? This meat is coming into the UK, with no "paperwork", no rules or regs, with what disease etc is a great worry? Again open borders ?

Ole Larry at ABP at it again, man needs rodded

 

[JockCroft]

I would question those figures. Looks to me as if someone read the wrong decimal point on the calculator.

Been using "Horizon" software?

 

[Hilly]

We had meat for tea , home
Produce .

 

[som farmer]

we had steak last night, taken out to eat, white park cattle steak, from the largest herd of white park, in the country, Curtesy of the 'newt in somerset'.

very nice steak, so was the price, then they tried to over charge us by £140, for 3 of us. No wonder the man has £millions to spend !!

 

[thorpe]

We had meat for tea , home
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we had our own pork the last 2 night's, you cant buy anything like it

 

[JockCroft]

Has anyone actually pulled the NFU up on this. I’ve forwarded it to NFUS head office to see if they can give them a boot up the backside. The reaction I got was pretty much one of shock.

And no action?

 

[Top Tip.]

And no action?

I don’t know, the person I sent it too would have dealt with it but maybe not through official channels if you know what I mean.