erupted in furious anger asking why once again they were being blamed for the problems of climate change?So I went off to see James Evans, he's a beef farmer on the Shropshire-Wales border and he's a very interesting person to talk to about all this. James has recently converted his entire beef enterprise to organic status. Something he did at the request of the new owners of the estate and which he wasn't too happy about to begin with.
The beef cattle are now kept on paddocks of long grass containing a mix of plants. They are moved every few days and eventually return to the paddock where they started when the grass has had enough time to re-grow and be ready for grazing again.That longer grass locks in more carbon and tractor use is also down as James no longer cuts hay for feeding to the cattle in the winter.
Because as any farmer will tell you a diet rich in avocados and rice is much more problematic in terms of its impact on the planet and on our climate than one which includes a steak from James Evans' cattle.Indeed, the IPCC report points the finger at livestock production in the far east and also rice farming as particular issues for the climate in terms of emissions. Meanwhile, British beef farmers look at the poor productivity of Brazilian cattle as another source of problems.
People will believe there are good farmers who genuinely care about Animal Welfare, both mental and physical - when they get cameras in every abattoir. That alone would turn people off eating meat and curb greenhouse gas
Utter rubbish and I'll be a meat water until the day I die ! Being a vegans not going to save you after the rainforests have been burnt to the ground !
Don't preach to me about eating less meat to save the planet when there is no intervention in Brazil and the awful scenes in the Amazon rainforest..
No.
Simpler is to ban palm oil. It kills you, the planet and the rain forest
Stop the crap about veganism, it’s just another money making idea by few to screw over the many. FACT: If early humanoids never ate meat then our brains would not have deceklpeuto even discuss this.
Lying less like BBC will save the planet
Also, people who want to be healthy 👍🏼
Ridiculous.
No
Cut down on air travel
The planet has a few billion years of life in it yet. It is our own existence we are fighting to save. Not the planet. We will wipe ourselves out. Then the Earth will recover and flourish. It will be beautiful, awesome. Other life will replace us. Lets not be selfish. Let it be
The UK contributes squat to the planet's problems compared with the real polluters of the world, no common sense these snowflakes, they don't care, just gives them the attention they crave on social media and fuels the government to take advantage through raising taxes.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 who cares, P* Off
Stop holding wild animals captive in zoos as this also contributes to climate change. By removing one an animal from a food chain, you causing climate change. My next campaign will be lobbying the government to return those animals to their natural habitat
Plus eating less won't actually do anything. Wonder how vegans etc know how the food they eat is produced and the processing for that is? Not just food though is it. So 🤷
Eat less meat then we dont need as many animals. Then what. We end up with far to many so then they get culled. What problem does that solve
It’s alright go stuff yourself with junk food though !!!
Wouldn’t we have to cut down more forests to grow enough veg
... or with real world people that have also had enough of agenda signalling from the BBC.
These things fart causing a hole in you're Ozone would we carry on breeding them at the same rate? All in all naff off they are delicious.
No there will just be more cow po💩 everywhere
Less breeding save the planet
We would save more of the planet if the BBC didn’t send so-called reporters all over the place putting their own weird twist on things
It’s a scientific fact that vegan diets are the best for the planet, consumption of meat takes an enourmous toll on our environment and the biosphere and I’m very proud to say I haven’t contributed to the murdering of animals in over three years! And I’d never go back
Is it just me or do less cows mean less milk, less dairy products all round? It isn’t just a case of eat less meat ........
People need protein and a variety because one is not a vegan ... !
Nor with a lot of other people.
Cutting down less trees will help. Grazing land was once forest so yes I guess it would in a roundabout way. Less meat. Less grazing land. More trees planted. Better for everyone. Healthier diet choices too.
Sustainable farming involves animals, whether you like it or not. Rearing pasture-fed animals reverses climate change.
Is this really down to activity in the UK, or Western Europe for that matter?
Where to get protein? Plow up grazing meadows and plant soy beans? Dumb and dumber.
Ground David Shukman first.
Eat more to reduce the levels of methane produced by livestock
“Climate change” two words used to legitimise the legal robbery of our hard earned cash through taxation to “Save the planet” I’m sorry but how is money going to do that. It’s not about climate change but making money from it.
Eat less vegetables,”Save the plants”
Proof please?
If I hear this nonsense one more time I'm going to scream. I have no intention of eating less meat, it is so ridiculous I can't stand it. Stick up for the hard working farmers for God's sake.
Nope ... why. Because India and China total population 2.3bn (est) are in the middle of an industrial revolution.
Nor the developing world.
How about having less people and maintaining our choices ! Man intelligent, don't make me laugh! Death is becoming a more attractive option by the day. Good luck to the brain-washed youngsters, have a happy life in your straight-jacket.
It’s should say “kill less”
When I see this headline I wonder if the industrialists are trying to put a smoke screen about pollution by blaming the farmers not there pollution.
Not really...it is us. we are the ones ruin the planet full stop with greed and no care for the planet 🌍 that has been gifted for to live on... we can not even look after something we are borrowing for our lifetime.
ABFalecbaldwin Ahhh the meat industry being brought to light! Oh no, what will they do if ppl realize they can obtain protein by other foods, and stop eating meat!? I know, the animals will stop being slaughtered a year or LESS into their lives! vegan
Less humans on the planet is a good start.
And what about the coal and gas facilities to generate electricity. Only nuclear energy can safe the planet.
How about stopping the continuous huge population increase !
We could all do our bit by turning off the bbc . Utter drivel
More media rubbish
Err won’t farm bred animals eg cows, sheep and pigs become extinct if we no longer eat meat?
I eat more meat and plant trees to save the planets instead!!!
Yes it will.
jeremycorbyn you couldn’t make it up
We cannot change our role in the ecosystem
Another post sponsored by Vegans.
Vegans aren't, it's the scientists.
Stop burning the Amazon down will certainly help. 20% of earths oxygen is produced by the trees there. Were killing the planets future...
All very well and good, but it's always us in the west having to save the planet while every country in Africa , the middle east and Asia are doing their best to destroy it. Your reporters travel to these places. Tell the truth about the scale of pollution they emit.
It’s a stupid idea dreamt up by ecoalarmists and socialists
More peopoganda. Have tou comsidered the effect of irrigation on thr planet to grow all the plants to eat.
Let farmers grow cannabis instead
Apparently that's more socially acceptable than HAVE FEWER CHILDREN!!!
We eat more fish and more veterinarian type food because it delicious. We eat meat because that's how we have been brought up & it's hard to stop. But I make really delicious tasty meals with just vegetables & lovely salad. Let's save our animals if pos.
I love Lamb, not so keen on veg!
Or anyone else for that matter (besides Vegans/EcoFascist's) 🤡
I’ll follow Betteridge’s Law of Headlines and say the answer is a firm No.
Thought journalists are educated people, but they are appeared to be increasingly the oxymorons by days. The big factories owned by the greedy don’t kill the planet, but these oxymorons blamed the cows.
ABFalecbaldwin Cue the barbecue pix from folks who don’t understand that one can do less of something without abstaining
That's the green\\socialist agenda behind the dodgy science. Trying to change the way the 'bad' people live. Combating waste and pollution are valid goals but this climate marketing is turning people off more than helping conservation.
A scientists view of Global warming.
People's replies to this tweet highlight why we need better education on climate change. Animal agriculture accounts for ~15% of GHG emissions, so a switch to a vegan diet would help things significantly (Not a vegan/veggie).
Here's an idea.....naw
Or the public you clowns
No it will give more of us diabetes, carbohydrates are not ok.
Probley not, and I'm sure there are greater issues at hand that be done for the climate than trying to make meat eaters guilty. How about only eating uk grown fruit & veg instead of flying it in from around the world.
What’s the matter hippie, hair get in your eyes? Get a haircut hippie!
More important things to worry about than this vegan nonsense
Not Brazilian farmets
Because it's based completely on Bullshit!
and let me guess? veganism will save the planet?😂😂😂😂
The machines will one day (no time soon) be able to use solar energy or other renewable energy a lot better so the machines could run off of them, and we still cook our food at home which isn't good for the atmosphere. Maybe a better idea would be to improve technology?
Oh you mean those bastards that burn down raiforests so they can steal land? Your point?
We are not going to “save the planet” by doing anything
It’s not a case of eating less it’s who!can afford to buy it?
NO!
Been thinking about this a long time tbh...still can't make my mind up..so i'm off for a steak sandwich and think some more😉..no hate please😊🤘
Stop trying to make eating bugs happen it's not going to happen
Burger that idea.
Investing less BBC is definitely good for your mental health.
Stupid idea. Where will the cows go and where will the meat replacement come from. Unless we kill all the cows and farm the land.
The gammons won't like this
Not popular with anyone except twats at the BBC and C4. What I didn't realise is that eating leaves washes your brain.
So do we set the cows free, let them be preyed on by our wolves and bears and hunt them like African animals!!!!.
No.
Childlike naivety will not save our planet. We in the UK have absolutely no effect on global warming whatsoever. Anyone that says otherwise, is a liar. Brazil burns more tree than we could ever plant, and China pollutes more than we could ever produce. Grow up kids! realism
It might make the supermarkets drop their prices, and then I could eat more meat.
elvis_1888 as a non vegan how do view this
When USA,China,India, Russia stop then come and tell me
The best meat to eat to save the environment is soylent green sometimes known as long pig.
Unless we are prepared to talk about population increase we are in denial. Consumerism / demand for resources is the problem. Reducing consumers is the start of the solution.
I'm sure it'd probably help but when massive countries like China, India, UK and USA pump out millions if not billions of tons of CO2 it'd be like pouring a glass of water on an Amazon rain forest.
What do veggies eat? Plants! What is the rainforest made of? Plants! Eat more meat and save the rainforest.
What a absolute load of Propaganda rubbish. what’s more native to the planet? Bovine animals or man made vehicles, heating and air conditioning systems and millions of factories spewing out carbon and chemical emissions let alone the Amazon on fire and Russian nuclear explosions
When one single container ship produces the equivalent pollution as every single car in the UK, it can't help but seem the personal responsibility angle is a distraction.
We could do a lot just by addressing the portion size of meat we generally eat.
Livestock, nor man are responsible for the changing climate. The questions are: Why are we being shown this? What's in for the Controllers? It's Trillion dollar scam. ClimateCrisisHoax
No one action will save the planet.
Are these fake Gnus?
You are doing nothing for AMOZON AMAZON BURNINGS, barking for eating less meat. Utterly disgusting !
Strange that! I bet the cattle love the idea!
The planet doesn't need saving and, even if it did, this wouldn't have much effect. The climate changes and it'll keep on doing it regardless of whether you have a steak or not!
Because it’s idiotic. The planet does not need saving. It is in no danger. Words have meaning and misuse of words to spread alarm and lies has consequences.
Meat is top priority and the very last thing to go.
I'll be long gone before that happens so just eating what I want 🤗
Of course it won’t. Will take a lot more than that. Short-termism makes self-destruction inevitable. No way current situation is sustainable beyond 2040 at latest.
Load of bollocks...... Good grief, the length folk will go to.. What's the worst part about being a Veggie/Vegan? Keeping quiet about it, good lord, let folk eat what they like
Doubt it, stopping the use of fossil fuels and the burning, illegal logging of rain forest might help a bit tho!
You are not going to save the planet by eating less meat.
Bacon says no.
Here's an update to the climate models from the ipcc These models work with artificial intelligence and Big Data and don't take into account feedback loops such as Amazon, Permafrost or Albedo JOIN CLIMATESTRIKE gretathunberg
Why do the BBC pose things as questions, rather than state the facts and educate the population. Question, as always, is also horseshit. Will it save the planet?No, not alone. Will it help, yes, significantly.
And people who enjoy beef, lamb, pork etc. I will give up meat when China stops building coal powered power stations
BBC moos.
Eating less of everything like that Knightley could be good and it is almost certain that if President Putin or someone else in the young monarchy cohort kills all the democracies and goes template example that this shall be green like a mofo!
You eat less meat so I can eat more. Thanks
Should we eat avocados which are partially responsible for deforestation instead?
Too much green,less meat
tell the president who is burning down the rain forest.
I bet Vegans have something to do with this 🤔
Definitely going to do this!!!!
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