There is allot of environmental arguements to regulate the dairy industry to be smaller, but it’s an easy vote, and it’s even easier to slap a tax on fuel and tell people to buy a 60k EV
Farmers – “ we look after the environment and are stewards of the land” – my hole.
(Not all farmers of course)
May face, isn’t it already in progress…
I see ot in the river/stream near my house there’s some sort of chemical in it causing massive foam to form, the council was aware of who was doing it as it was reported but they didn’t do anything, the EPA was out recently to all farms in the area to find who caused it due to pollution levels, haven’t heard what happened when/if they visited the polluters farm as it started visiting farmers in the last 1-2 weeks
Then another farmer pumps water out of the stream to the point there’s nearly no water left, I remember about 10 years ago it was a fairly sizeable stream nowadays its barely a trickle
Irish waterways has feck all power to stop it too. I contact them a while back during a drought. Large famers were taking huge tank after tank of river water and spreading on their lands miles from the river. The river was like a stream as it was. There were actually small fish on their lands after it. Irish waterways told me they had no power to intervene.
I do a lot of kayaking. I often see pipes in river banks that are very close to farmers yards. I’ve almost no doubt that they let off slurry and God knows what else when the river is flooded. There’s a scum on the top of the water that looks like oil and something that shouldn’t be in fresh water.
Take a look at what is happening over in the Netherlands about nitrogen levels. We are not far behind but our media doesn’t seem to be interested in covering it. Our farmers are being encouraged to increase herd size. And get rewarded for it!
Why do we need to over-produce to this extent? How much of it do we actually consume? Why do we reward and not punish aggressive farming. It’s turning our countryside to shit and fucking up our health.
Edit: added health part.
Most of the land is wasted by them as well. I survey river banks and the ammount of pollution they produce is hard to believe unless you see it first hand
Knew a lad from Kilbeggen, was a buddy…. always smelled of slurry.
Yeh the new glanbia cheese place in kilkenny/waterford won’t do any damage at all.
Regulations are coming in meaning farmers are being forced to spread slurry using low emission methods.
What nobody realises is it means twice the amount of work for tractors, meaning increased co2 emissions and a lot of water has to be used to dilute the slurry so it can be used in these machines.
“Irish farmers are the most eco friendly in the world”
The IFA don’t give a fuck. The govmnt doesn’t give a fuck. It’s up to us to put a stop to this shit.
No shit.
> Increased herd numbers lead to the increased use of fertiliser to grow grass needed to feed cows which spend more time outdoors than cows in many other countries, which creates increased levels of animal slurry.
Not sure how that work because it’d be fairly hard to collect slurry when cows are out door
If people would stop supporting animal abuse, we wouldn’t have these problems.
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There is allot of environmental arguements to regulate the dairy industry to be smaller, but it’s an easy vote, and it’s even easier to slap a tax on fuel and tell people to buy a 60k EV
Farmers – “ we look after the environment and are stewards of the land” – my hole.
(Not all farmers of course)
May face, isn’t it already in progress…
I see ot in the river/stream near my house there’s some sort of chemical in it causing massive foam to form, the council was aware of who was doing it as it was reported but they didn’t do anything, the EPA was out recently to all farms in the area to find who caused it due to pollution levels, haven’t heard what happened when/if they visited the polluters farm as it started visiting farmers in the last 1-2 weeks
Then another farmer pumps water out of the stream to the point there’s nearly no water left, I remember about 10 years ago it was a fairly sizeable stream nowadays its barely a trickle
Irish waterways has feck all power to stop it too. I contact them a while back during a drought. Large famers were taking huge tank after tank of river water and spreading on their lands miles from the river. The river was like a stream as it was. There were actually small fish on their lands after it. Irish waterways told me they had no power to intervene.
I do a lot of kayaking. I often see pipes in river banks that are very close to farmers yards. I’ve almost no doubt that they let off slurry and God knows what else when the river is flooded. There’s a scum on the top of the water that looks like oil and something that shouldn’t be in fresh water.
Take a look at what is happening over in the Netherlands about nitrogen levels. We are not far behind but our media doesn’t seem to be interested in covering it. Our farmers are being encouraged to increase herd size. And get rewarded for it!
Why do we need to over-produce to this extent? How much of it do we actually consume? Why do we reward and not punish aggressive farming. It’s turning our countryside to shit and fucking up our health.
Edit: added health part.
Most of the land is wasted by them as well. I survey river banks and the ammount of pollution they produce is hard to believe unless you see it first hand
Knew a lad from Kilbeggen, was a buddy…. always smelled of slurry.
Yeh the new glanbia cheese place in kilkenny/waterford won’t do any damage at all.
Regulations are coming in meaning farmers are being forced to spread slurry using low emission methods.
What nobody realises is it means twice the amount of work for tractors, meaning increased co2 emissions and a lot of water has to be used to dilute the slurry so it can be used in these machines.
“Irish farmers are the most eco friendly in the world”
The IFA don’t give a fuck. The govmnt doesn’t give a fuck. It’s up to us to put a stop to this shit.
No shit.
> Increased herd numbers lead to the increased use of fertiliser to grow grass needed to feed cows which spend more time outdoors than cows in many other countries, which creates increased levels of animal slurry.
Not sure how that work because it’d be fairly hard to collect slurry when cows are out door
If people would stop supporting animal abuse, we wouldn’t have these problems.
Oat milk is nice.