What did the Rumens do for us?

Reading about the worm turning and the lacklustre defence of our industry offered by our representatives, I suddenly thought that what we need is an overwhelming list of all the positive and obvious benefits that traditional farming brings to the British Isles. It would then give a handy ready defence to the sort of carp that keeps appearing on Facebook threads and it could also be used as a humorous response that we could paste and run when up against it.
Everyone knows the Monty Python sketch about the benefits the evil Romans brought to Judea, such as medicine, sanitation, etc, etc, so how about a list in similar vein entitled "What did the rumens ever do for us?"
Here's some random thoughts for starters:
Decent nutrition
Conservation
Hay meadows
Diverse flora and fauna
Rural communities
Tourism
The British landscape
Mediaeval churches
Natural fibres
Low food miles
Carbon sequestration
Soil Fertility
Rare breed preservation...
Can brains mightier than mine add to it, hopefully with a bit of a knowing smile, to put down people like the vegan idiot who posted "What justification is there for eating meat?"
 
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Not quite what you’re looking for but a line that came up on the thread about Ed Sheeran wanting to rewild the countryside to offset the damage his touring the world had done was, Its like buying a condom after you’ve fathered a child............well it made me chuckle anyway


I think if you want to capture the attention of the ordinary folk out there, you’ve got to stick to simple messages they can relate to


On the subject of simple messages, I’m sure many will have seen the Facebook post doing the rounds from time to time, a two part photograph of some cattle lying in a field and of a city in smog with a caption about which of the above was destroying the planet.
 
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A picture like this makes a nonsense of most of their logic. More creatures being eaten in 1 acre in 5 minutes than all the food animals we have produced in the last 40 years on 300 acres
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The whole vegan thing is being driven hard by food companies because meat and animal products are actually expensive compared to vegetable matter or ingredients. Look at the killing out percentage of a pig, chicken or a lamb and compare it to a potato or parsnip?

The idea of turning a load of veg into a puree or mash and calling it a burger is a food manufacturer's dream because the margin involved will be nuts. Throw in the spin about health benefits of veganism etc and it literally sells itself.

The beauty of livestock has always been you can grow them on desert scrub or the side of a frozen Scottish hillside and they will work the same. They can also make use of by products from other industrial processes and feedstocks which would otherwise have to be disposed of in an AD plant or similar. Waste veg, waste spuds, waste from palm oil production, waste from rapeseed oil processing, you name it, livestock hoover it up no problem.
 
Humans have evolved over millions of years as omnivores, as such a vegan diet is an unnatural diet for our species.
I am not going to argue with evolution
On the flipside I think most of us would agree that the food chain as it stands, in producing a fudging chicken in about a month and selling it for £2 is fudging mental. This and many other examples of mankind losing the plot in a big way and it needs to be reversed, quickly.
 

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On the flipside I think most of us would agree that the food chain as it stands, in producing a fudging chicken in about a month and selling it for £2 is fudging mental. This and many other examples of mankind losing the plot in a big way and it needs to be reversed, quickly.
All very true, but there are roughly 9 billion of us now aren’t there? Not sure what the answer is though, apart from spending less on 💩 we don’t need and more on proper food.
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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