National Food Strategy: open letter

[DaveGrohl]

So why does beef continually get blamed for deforestation for soya production too feed cattle, and why does no representation group for agriculture defend it?

Because the people doing the blaming have no clue what they're bull sitting about. But they don't care, it's all about propaganda to fool others into thinking like them.

Soy oil happens to be one of the worst oils for humans as it's mostly omega 6. We all eat far too much omega 6. Thankfully it's hardly used here in the uk.

 

[BrianV]

the case you can make is less important than what customers want if you want a successful business

“i want to eat meat but i want my meat to be as local as possible, grass fed on land that can not grow veg, grain or legume, i want my meat to have had a high welfare life witn access to outdoors “

im prepared to pay for that


i dont want to eat USA feedlot beef fed on soya from slash and burn rain forests …….. high quality UK meat needs marketing differentiation to distance itself as far as possible from that image

its a massive opportunity

UK consumers in the main have been brought up by successive governments to expect cheap food & in the large part will always buy the cheapest, whilst there will be a niche market that the better off will buy British that will not sustain UK farmers when cheap imports start to flood in.

 

[T Hectares]

Soy contains 20% oil, which it's been grown for, 80% is waste from the crusting industry which is turned into other less valuable products , bit like OSR , your not growing it for feed, your growing for the oil content. With the increasing of bio oil in fuel can only see soy been grown in larger areas, livestock do use a large amount of the waste ( most fed to Chinese pig and chicken), don't think it would be grown in such large quantities without the oil industry.

Although, with more pressure on the Internal combustion engine and the rise of electric and possibly hydrogen vehicles would the long term prospect be for less veg oil into biofuels ??

 

[delilah]

President of the NFU on Question Time, again.
Apologizing for emissions from cows, again.

 

[delilah]

Whoever 'Ian' was at the fag end of Any Answers, can someone please get him a job as NFU spokesperson. In 60 rushed seconds he did what our national body repeatedly fails to do, explaining how cows are part of the solution not part of the problem.