The future of livestock - have your say! £200 worth of vouchers to win!

[KJBlair]

The future of livestock - have your say!

£200 worth of vouchers to win!
Prize draw for a £100 and £50 gift card. And a further £50 gift card for a randomly selected participant from the follow up interviews. See T&Cs for details.
Survey closes on Friday 2nd July 2021 at midnight.

Livestock production and meat consumption are coming under increasing scrutiny in public policy. Concerns surrounding the environmental, health and global food security impacts have led to a diversity of solutions being proposed from a variety of viewpoints. This research aims to understand different values, beliefs, worldviews, and perceptions of responsibility that underpin these viewpoints. Participating in the research will help us as a community to self-reflect and ask what does ‘good’ really look like?

Please participate if you are over the age of 18 and are involved in the livestock sector in any way, e.g. student, researcher, veterinarian, farmer, producer, processor, etc. The survey should take around 10-15 minutes. Please only complete the survey once per person, but feel free to share the link with others in the livestock sector.

Follow this link bit.ly/2U1MzoS or scan the QR code above to proceed to the survey. Thank you.

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[delilah]

A highly flawed, and hugely worrying, survey.
Flawed because the questions presuppose that livestock are bad for the environment. Worrying because it is from a vet school. (should have took a note of which one, it wont let you re-enter once completed).
If our future vets are being taught that they are going to be caring for animals that are destroying the planet, we really are in trouble.

 

[Tarw Coch]

A highly flawed, and hugely worrying, survey.
Flawed because the questions presuppose that livestock are bad for the environment. Worrying because it is from a vet school. (should have took a note of which one, it wont let you re-enter once completed).
If our future vets are being taught that they are going to be caring for animals that are destroying the planet, we really are in trouble.

I haven’t looked at the survey, but taking your word for it it’s as you say, what the heck should we do?
On the one hand badly written surveys don’t deserve a response, having seen them before, it’s hard to get a point across when the survey is channelling you in the opposite direction.
OTOH, if you don’t try to reply the survey could give some very skewed one sided answers.

It’s understandable when those with vested interests in conflict with or competition with livestock farming come up with loaded questions but when supposedly intelligent people with an interest in animal agriculture do I can’t help but despair.

 

[delilah]

I haven’t looked at the survey, but taking your word for it it’s as you say, what the heck should we do?
On the one hand badly written surveys don’t deserve a response, having seen them before, it’s hard to get a point across when the survey is channelling you in the opposite direction.
OTOH, if you don’t try to reply the survey could give some very skewed one sided answers.

It’s understandable when those with vested interests in conflict with or competition with livestock farming come up with loaded questions but when supposedly intelligent people with an interest in animal agriculture do I can’t help but despair.

Click on it, the logos were on the first page you don't have to do the survey, hopefully you can tell me i've read it wrong, I just ploughed on, wanted to be in with a shout on the £200 lol.

 

[yellowbelly]

I just ploughed on, wanted to be in with a shout on the £200 lol.

The cynic in me says you've got no chance if you gave 'the wrong answers'

 

[JP1]

University of Edinburgh

 

[The Son]

I won't be answering it, its badly written, and the use of bold type in the questions is directing you to a response.

 

[Henarar]

Well I tried but it wouldn't except my email
Not that my answers would have been liked as they didn't fit the questions

 

[wrenbird]

It is not a survey, the outcome has already been decided.

 

[alex04w]

The future of livestock - have your say!

£200 worth of vouchers to win!
Prize draw for a £100 and £50 gift card. And a further £50 gift card for a randomly selected participant from the follow up interviews. See T&Cs for details.
Survey closes on Friday 2nd July 2021 at midnight.

Livestock production and meat consumption are coming under increasing scrutiny in public policy. Concerns surrounding the environmental, health and global food security impacts have led to a diversity of solutions being proposed from a variety of viewpoints. This research aims to understand different values, beliefs, worldviews, and perceptions of responsibility that underpin these viewpoints. Participating in the research will help us as a community to self-reflect and ask what does ‘good’ really look like?

Please participate if you are over the age of 18 and are involved in the livestock sector in any way, e.g. student, researcher, veterinarian, farmer, producer, processor, etc. The survey should take around 10-15 minutes. Please only complete the survey once per person, but feel free to share the link with others in the livestock sector.

Follow this link bit.ly/2U1MzoS or scan the QR code above to proceed to the survey. Thank you.

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Completed. But it is a highly skewed questionnaire. A lot of the questions asked were based on wild assumptions - animals bad, greenhouse gases are all the fault of animals, lab grown 'meat' will save the planet, etc.

If this is the best a modern university can produce, there is little hope for us!

 

[alex04w]

Well I tried but it wouldn't except my email
Not that my answers would have been liked as they didn't fit the questions

I had that. My email defaults in, but it keep refusing it until I realised there was a blank space at the end. Once the space after my email address was removed, it suddenly accepted it!

 

[Loftyrules]

Interesting survey, doesn't seem to make out that meat is bad, it gives an insight into the potential future of the industry....it's not all negative

 

[Treg]

Brilliant survey well written, only problem I had was country ....didn't list Cornwall

 

[delilah]

We must have filled in different versions; the one I did took it as a fact from the beginning that livestock farming is bad for the environment and then sought to find out what we thought we should be doing about that fact.

 

[kfpben]

No one ever seems to mention the impacts of the millions of pet dogs, cats, horses etc on resources.
I can’t think why not

 

[Treg]

We must have filled in different versions; the one I did took it as a fact from the beginning that livestock farming is bad for the environment and then sought to find out what we thought we should be doing about that fact.

Although it had leanings that way, I felt it had room to expand on your answers & plenty of room for comments & I have left lots of comments, well worth them giving me the money , although my comments about Vegetables destroying the soil may not have gone down well

 

[Sandpit Farm]

Seemed fine to me. I was confused as to what 'Place' was in the latter questions. It seemed like a survey about how I portray the situation. I didn't find it loaded at all.

 

[HatsOff]

Ah.. I was hoping for some free text. Yeah there's an assumption that carbon emissions from livestock are equivalent to carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

 

[delilah]

I have left lots of comments, well worth them giving me the money

nah, the £200 is mine for stimulating participation .
Hey @KJBlair , would it be possible to post what I think was the first page of the questions, there were three of them from memory it was the middle one that set the trend for what I perceived to be bias, maybe I read it wrong. Thanks

 

[JP1]

Section I: Livestock futures - what is the problem?



Below are three statements outlining different perspectives of the problem for livestock futures. Please select how much you agree or disagree with the statements.

​	Strongly disagree​	Somewhat disagree​	Neutral​	Somewhat agree​	Strongly agree​
Not enough food There is not enough food to feed the growing population. We need human innovation to increase the efficiency of meat production.	​	​	​	​	​
Too much greed The meat issue is part of a bigger environmental problem of human greed – the desire to consume more and more. Our consumption patterns are resource intensive, unhealthy and must change.	​	​	​	​	​
Too much inequality There are problems of excess and insufficiency both in the environment (over and under-use of agricultural inputs); and in our bodies – in the form of obesity and malnutrition. The solution is not necessarily to produce more or less but rather to rebalance the system.	​	​	​	​	​