Ruston3w
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Plenty here to, also hares, good to know there is some benefit from growing beet....the lapwings like beet too, at least they don't eat them.
Strange there's nothing on the news or from the RSPB on this
At a meeting the other night we agreed that post Brexit "intensive" / "indoor" farming practices would be relabelled "precision farming". I'm pleased to hear that you and your skylarks are already ahead of the curve
Indoor doesn't mean bad though. Indoor allows you to be precise in all of your animal farming techniquesFair enough on the 'intensive' changing to 'precision', it is at the least plausible and pretty accurate generally. But for 'indoor' use 'precision' is a bit of a stretcher; if you stray or stretch too far you will lose credibility all round.
I'd argue that indoor is bad because of its huge detachment from the natural, like substituting grass and leaves for grain and concentrate.Indoor doesn't mean bad though. Indoor allows you to be precise in all of your animal farming techniques
I'd argue that indoor is bad because of its huge detachment from the natural, like substituting grass and leaves for grain and concentrate.
But that is not the reason for my questioning the use of the term 'precision' in this context; it is simply that by employing it as a mere euphemism, you devalue its use.
Clearly species is a relevant matter; anyone farming worms or insects intensively and wholly inside would be on fairly safe ground. But step up the ladder of sentience and the end-use of the protein produced and you both stray further away from the natural way of things and quality of meat. Start with fowels and end with cattle, the result is the same: the further detached from a natural diet and environment, the lesser the welfare and product quality. Use of the term 'precision' implies, and is probably intended to imply, 'better', and that would not be the case.Not sure I agree completely - which species ?
On another thread I said barn layers were emulating jungle fowl origins most closely