Too much methane - Slaughter them younger

Most pigs in Ireland are grown like products in Factories..

It is as Greta said Blah blah blah!

1.7 million pigs in Ireland

They have an ideal kill weight for most profit, now they are factoring in the "carbon weight" with

no thoughts other than profits.

https://www.facebook.com/ethicalfarmingireland

Sorry to rain on your parade but I’m afraid what you are saying is not true. The proposal is to reduce the average slaughtering age from 27 to 24 months old. There is absolutely no need for “more confinement inside with bulk feed” to achieve this.

What is required is better grassland management and cattle will naturally thrive better themselves while roaming with natural grazing and chewing of the cud as another poster has mentioned.

This will actually lead to a better life and much happier cattle as instead of being left in the one field for prolonged lengths of time they will be in smaller fields and be moved to fresh grass on a more regular basis.

There’s some merit in what my farming colleagues have stated above, but really this policy endorses increased use of fossil fuel reliant inputs in the quest of reducing bovine methane and this result is inevitable given the breeding of a lot of Irish cattle.

This is the result of a vegan “abolish all animal farming “ narrative which attached to methane as being the major trump card in their armoury and the plastic clothes wearing cult became “green”. Funding from corporate food processors who see a lucrative market for processed crap meat and dairy alternatives, the nonsense has grown and grown and now...

Despite the fact extensive low input slow grown Irish beef supports a myriad of biodiversity, and can produce top quality food with minimal amounts of fossil fuels it has given new wind to industrialised meat production.

intensive beef,pig and poultry systems are now “greener” than pasture grazed cattle and sheep.