"Green" policies are destroying this country

The greens want to reduce both the beef and dairy herds do they not, and that is certainly not going to improve our economy. It would not lessen global emissions either as others would just increase their numbers. Brazil among them while burning more of the Amazon to do so.

Greens are big on ideology but joined up thinking really is beyond them.

We export 1.44 billion worth of beef to the E.U. Brazil last year exported 540 million worth of beef to the E.U. We are supposed to reduce our beef herd while Brazil on the other side of the world is shipping 40% of our exports to the E.U. You really could not make this sh^te up.

Last week The Financial Times reported that the U.K. National Grid has a contingency plan to shut the interconnector gas pipelines to the Netherlands and Belgium if U.K. supplies run short, and Norway has warned that gas exports to the U.K. could be cut off by this weekend due to oil worker strikes.

With the Southwest Kinsale reservoir decommissioned we have no natural gas storage facility, no LNG terminal and even if we had the Kinsale reservoir The Irish Green party proposed legislation if passed would prevent using it for LNG storage. Our energy regulator stated we do not have energy security and we are not in E.U. compliance on energy security a few months ago. That situation has not improved. If anything with the U.K. contingency plan and the strike in Norway, the situation is even more precarious now.

I would not see that being aired as shock jock tactics Crossing fingers and hoping for the best by our government I would find shocking.

so do you think the EU shouldn't lower emissions at all, and should continue importing lots of products from China?

The E.U. are importing green tech from China that is being produced with energy from coal and slave labour, so really lowering global emissions only concerns them within the E..U. Human rights does seem to be a concern either.

The E.U. is also importing beef from Brazil where cattle produce the same per head of methane as Irish cattle to the value of the 40% Ireland, a member state produces for the same market on the doorstep of the E.U. as well as us have much stricter controls on animal health and welfare, while Brazil is burning down rain-forest the size of Wales annually to do so and then shipping that meat half way around the world, while pontificating, same as greens, that we should cut our herds, our exports and put a hole in our economy plus creating large scale job loses.

If you cannot see the ironic hypocrisy then there is not much I can do for you.

and you'd be ok with goods being far more expensive? I mean I would be, I think stuff is too cheap nowadays and it leads to lots of waste

Last year we exported 246,887 live cattle. Of that number 96.8% were exported to other European countries with the other 3.2% to Lybia , Kazakhstan and others. So no we do not "export hundreds of thousands of male calves to other countries every year" that aren`t renowned for animal rights.

We do not have intensively beef reared cattle in Ireland, and we have very strict veterinary standards. Last year 1,792,500 cattle were slaughtered for beef. There are 74,159 beef farms in Ireland. That is an average per farm of 24 cattle. If you think Irish cattle are intensively farmed, then you really do not know what intensive farming is.

I agree with you you that the whole E.U. system is f*cked when we are incentivising China to use slave labour and coal burning plants to provide green tech, and importing 40% of the beef that Ireland provides from Brazil where standards are poor, while the E.U. keeps piling on restrictions on farmers and want us, courtesy of green policy to cut our herds. We do not have a intensive farming, but with ever increasing E.U. regulations and restrictions, having to compete with beef not raised to any of those standards is actually going to result in many farmers going on the dole, with those left in the industry having to resort to intensive farming to survive.

Yet again for greens it`s all about the ideology with neither the sense or foresight to see that they should be very careful of what they wish for.

Are RTE reporting on these protests? its radio silence on Twitter. The IFA ought to be dumping a load of slurry outside the Dutch Embassy in solidarity, you know they are coming for irish farmers next