Carmarthen market this evening. A massive turnout from us farmers. Hopefully this leads to physical protests along the way.
by Sgt_Sillybollocks
Carmarthen market this evening. A massive turnout from us farmers. Hopefully this leads to physical protests along the way.
by Sgt_Sillybollocks
12 comments
Because ?
About 500 people in that shot. Wait until morning and the ‘farming influencers’ will be claiming thousands.
Fewnch farmers covered Paris in shit for having to leave 4% of their land fallow (amomg other grievances) and yet WG wants to push on with 10%. We need to be self sufficient in the coming years because globalisation is coming to an end.
I have only one question for them: did they vote to leave the EU?
Farmers traditionally don’t show solidarity with other groups of workers, and often vote for parties and policies that disadvantage working people. Brexit being a prime example, which has bitten them on the arse.
That said, I hope they get a better deal.
Well well well, if it isn’t the consequence of your actions
I have no idea why, so I ask a simple question: why?
The amount of people still whinging about Brexit in any post that’s even remotely political is utterly pathetic.
This has nothing to do with Brexit.
You lost. Wales voted to Leave because you called anyone who didn’t agree with you stupid.
It’s YOU that’s the idiot.
You see people bang the drum of Welsh Independence on this subreddit constantly yet can’t get behind their own farmers who grow the food that they eat.
I disagree with the Welsh government’s farming subsidy change. The focus on sustainability and net-zero is an egregious act of self-harm considering the UK in its entirety contribute apx. 5% of global carbon emissions (accounting for the fact that we buy it from countries who don’t give a fuck about carbon emissions to make our own figures look better).
I just want to make this absolutely insane point for everyone reading and “what our farmers do for us”.
They receive on average (sheep farmers), £16,000 a year in subsidies.
They take up 78.3% of our entire land mass, which means that is four fifths of Wales’ entire land mass is just grass for sheep and the odd cow. If you ever see a blue, red, white, black box in a field, that is mineral/lick/supplement imported from deforested rainforests around the world.
Wales is a bio desert.
They then export the vast majority of these animals (so they arent actually feeding us) and we get 1% of our TOTAL calories from them, yet they use up more than four fifths of the entire countries land mass.
They are also responsible and the lead cause of river pollution and temporary ocean dead zones in Wales.It is why Wales is one of the least biodiverse countries in the entire world and why nature is in complete freefall here.
Remember, we rely on nature for our life systems and the lead cause of nature depletion is animal-agriculture. Not forgetting the natural world is our biggest and best carbon sync and we’ve just removed it for grass.
We are all connected, but the farmers think they are above that and now we’re paying for it both with climate change and environmentally.
We could eat plants instead, use better environmental farming methods like syntropic farming, permaculture, precision fermentation, veganic and so on, all proven methods that work with nature.
And then we can rewild up to three quarters of all previous farm land.
Source: Data scientist, that works on nature films. I’ve come to the conclusion that my job role in life will be to film nature vanishing before our very eyes.
Why are American farmers in Carmarthen?
Aren’t these new rules a good thing though?