More beef bashing.

Here's a question: who's going to stop you farming livestock? I mean even if 100% of the UK population goes vegan (which will never happen), there are still another 8bn people (11bn by 2050) around the world eating meat. In other words the market will still be there.

Unless the government start coming round actively culling or forbidding you to keep livestock, I think it'll always be there to some extent. Its up to us as to whether or not we want to farm it.
There has to be a certain level of infrastructure to make it viable. I have to take the pigs 50 miles to get them turn into sausages as the number of small abattoirs is reducing all the time compared to 25 years ago when we had an FMC plant 10 minutes away.
Last week I needed a bottle of Thistlex but none of the local "countrystore" places do it anymore as the volumes are too small to license, so I had to drive to the main Mole store 30 miles away.
Suddenly, a guy offering a fistful of cash for a Phosphate sink in the meadow looks like a pretty good option.
 

toquark

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There has to be a certain level of infrastructure to make it viable. I have to take the pigs 50 miles to get them turn into sausages as the number of small abattoirs is reducing all the time compared to 25 years ago when we had an FMC plant 10 minutes away.
Last week I needed a bottle of Thistlex but none of the local "countrystore" places do it anymore as the volumes are too small to license, so I had to drive to the main Mole store 30 miles away.
Suddenly, a guy offering a fistful of cash for a Phosphate sink in the meadow looks like a pretty good option.
I totally get the critical mass argument, we’re still relatively lucky in this part of the country as it’s predominantly livestock but I know that’s not the case elsewhere.

But what I’m saying is that if the market remains which I think by in large it will, then surely so will the infrastructure. And can anyone actually stop you farming?
 

toquark

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In this weeks Scottish farmer
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From BBC News today...

Prince Charles has a couple of meat-free days a week. The government could call for more of us to follow suit.
They may be reluctant to tell shoppers what to put in their baskets, but according to a survey by the think tank Demos, more than 90% of us would be in favour of a government-led campaign to reduce meat and dairy consumption.

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more radical move would be to set higher taxes for meat, or lower taxes on fruit and veg, to influence what we buy.
But the government appeared to take that idea off the table earlier this year, saying it would not be putting a tax "on the great British banger or anything else".
As well as looking at consumer demand, Polly Mackenzie, chief executive of Demos, says the government should use agricultural policy to move away from simply subsidising production.
"We've repatriated control of agricultural subsidies because of Brexit," she says. "We can change what we pay farmers to do, shift that effort and investment into encouraging rewilding, better upland land management, reforestation."

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What kind of commentators and unquestioning reporters are unaware that subsidies have been decoupled from production for many years already? Why The BBC of course.
So how do people eat from rewilding and trees? Oh yes, I forgot, they should eat factory produced artificial meat made from, umm, chemicals and 'grown' in massive vats, similar looking to an oil refinery and reminiscent of Soylent Green, only less 'organic'.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.2%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 65 34.8%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.0%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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