Red Fred
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- Hants/Dorset border
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.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.
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.