The BBC does it again!

[Yellow Trousers]

Finally the BBC through its Breakfast programme supposedly gives farming a serious airing with interviews with proper farmers and a Farmers’ Guardian journalist but....it f**king (yes you heard me right there!) does it again....
....They build a set compete with straw bales and a litter floor complete with a horse cart from the Middle Ages, a wooden pail, some plastic chickens and some sort of ornamental trees!
Some not too silly questions from presenter Steph but why do we allow ourselves to be presented in this way? If it were me being interviewed, I’d have walked off the set.

 

[PSQ]

This also from the BBC today.
It looks suspiciously well researched, I assume George Monbiot will be wheeled in to the news room to 'restore the balance' while trying to urinate over anything that shows farming in a positive light:
Five ways UK farmers are tackling climate change
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49044072

 

[matthew]

Yesterday featured the Stamley family from Leics. with a longhorn bull explaining carbon sequestration of grasslandr. They did a sterling job. Articulate and truthful.
The bull was well behaved too, but the interviewer appeared terrified - and not of the farmers.
Or maybe of them too.

The farmer sterotype, as described above, is easier to control.

 

[wanton dwarf]

I still have yet to see any media type to recognise that the nutrients farmers buy - Nitrogen, Phosphate, Potash etc - gets flushed down the sewerage system.

Not much effort by our Urban cousins in being sustainable and putting those nutrients back on the land.

 

[Top Tip.]

Finally the BBC through its Breakfast programme supposedly gives farming a serious airing with interviews with proper farmers and a Farmers’ Guardian journalist but....it fudgeing (yes you heard me right there!) does it again....
....They build a set compete with straw bales and a litter floor complete with a horse cart from the Middle Ages, a wooden pail, some plastic chickens and some sort of ornamental trees!
Some not too silly questions from presenter Steph but why do we allow ourselves to be presented in this way? If it were me being interviewed, I’d have walked off the set.

I did think it was very twee,but the folk that were on spoke well. It is just a relief not to be listening to the constant denigrating of farmers something positive for a change.

 

[lazy farmer]

Local news also did a balanced job last night on the subject of climate change.
No doubt many will disagree.

 

[upnortheast]

6 pm news last night stayed true to form. - they just have to say "climate change & eat less meat " in every report

 

[wanton dwarf]

6 pm news last night stayed true to form. - they just have to say "climate change & eat less meat " in every report

Obviously this Rhetoric is coming from the Civil Service .. which made it's mind up about UK industry decades ago.

London thinks the rest of the UK can exist on the crumbs left on the table after Westminster has gorged itself .. time to redress the balance and start removing Civil Servants by the 10,000s.

 

[Tarw Coch]

I still have any media type to recognise that the nutrients farmers buy - Nitrogen, Phosphate, Potash etc - gets flushed down the sewerage system.

Not much effort by our Urban cousins in being sustainable and putting those nutrients back on the land.

Unfortunately that sums up most people’s attitude to all matters environmental, they want to carry on as normal, it’s someone else’s problem to do something about it.

 

[Robert K]

Every time the BBC mentions farming on the news they always have a spraying picture from the archives [emoji35]

 

[kfpben]

As frustrating as it is I don’t think a Lexion with a 40ft cut would fit too easily in the studio.

 

[upnortheast]

Unfortunately that sums up most people’s attitude to all matters environmental, they want to carry on as normal, it’s someone else’s problem to do something about it.

That's the thing about veggie. Vegan. Just a matter of going up a different aisle in the supermarket. Foregoing your trip on a 737. Now that means a big change to your lifestyle.

 

[vantage]

Obviously this Rhetoric is coming from the Civil Service .. which made it's mind up about UK industry decades ago.

London thinks the rest of the UK can exist on the crumbs left on the table after Westminster has gorged itself .. time to redress the balance and start removing Civil Servants by the 10,000s.

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with a rep. He said how many Eurocrats administer the CAP,35k apparently, a lot I thought until he revealed in the UK we have 400k bureaucrats doing it!

 

[lazy farmer]

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with a rep. He said how many Eurocrats administer the CAP,35k apparently, a lot I thought until he revealed in the UK we have 400k bureaucrats doing it!

???????
3500- 4000 people work for defra

 

[delilah]

As frustrating as it is I don’t think a Lexion with a 40ft cut would fit too easily in the studio.

and even if it would, the fire safety officer wouldn't allow it.

 

[Wellytrack]

Meanwhile.....


I’m sure plenty didn’t make the cut however what a great job putting the side over by @1GWJ

When an ethical vegan met a sheep farmer...

Many vegans boycott woollen clothing on the basis that it is cruel to sheep.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Princess Pooper]

Unfortunately, the East Midlands BBC yesterday chose to feature a dairy farmer who when he quit dairying decided to keep his cattle as pets, (a story they have covered previously) rather than something more mainstream.

 

[Muddyroads]

Meanwhile.....


I’m sure plenty didn’t make the cut however what a great job putting the side over by @1GWJ

When an ethical vegan met a sheep farmer...

Many vegans boycott woollen clothing on the basis that it is cruel to sheep.

www.bbc.co.uk

I saw that this morning, and the more I thought about, the more positive I felt. The BBC gets a lot of flack on here, often justified, though I suspect that their “biased” reporting is sometimes due to the likes of the NFU not responding quickly enough on our behalf.
More could have been said by GWJ but perhaps it didn’t make the edit. For example emphasising the impact of strike on unshorn sheep and the waste of such a fantastic renewable material such as wool when it has to be shorn for the animals welfare compared to wearing “plastic”. But most of all, the vegans notion that an animal dying of “old age” is better than going to slaughter. Does she not realise that the ewe won’t simply go to sleep and not wake up, but get torn to bits by predators when she becomes too weak to defend herself?
If that was the best that the vegan could come up with to defend her “ethical” beliefs, it was a pretty poor effort and easily countered.

 

[kfpben]

Unfortunately, the East Midlands BBC yesterday chose to feature a dairy farmer who when he quit dairying decided to keep his cattle as pets, (a story they have covered previously) rather than something more mainstream.

He must be a very rich man to be able to fund the appetite of a herd of ex dairy cows with no financial return.

 

[AGN76]

He must be a very rich man to be able to fund the appetite of a herd of ex dairy cows with no financial return.

All dairy farmers are rich! (Tin hat!)