"Green" policies are destroying this country

Last year debating over in other forum about cheap food ,we said it would take a famine or a really global catastrophia to raise the price of food .Now food is doubling in price and the greens want to restrict the production of food in this country ,you could not make this up really .Let them at it ,people wont be long coming to their senses when it hits their pocket big time .Food has not got half enough expensive yet and farming will be back in the big time before too long and rightly so!!!

"if the EU has real aims of reducing emissions they should ban the import of emission heavy foods like beef from these places"

For emissions heavy does it matter whether its avocados or beef being produced in cleared rain forest?

One of the main issues is farming out emissions to countries outside the EU. If a country has similar standards then fine. But the EU also needs to look at its own security of food supply and not penalise food production of its member states where those countries are producing for consumption within the EU.

The situation in Ukraine should be a wake up call to the EU block as a whole. Oddly enough that seems to have gone out the window here.

It definitely appears to be fantasy land stuff!

In my grandfather's time it was one year in 6 you could have a wheat crop, the rest of the time it was back in pasture to allow the land to recover....and we are not talking yields at the level of today either

I'd be very interested to see how it can produce to the same level after 10 years......there must be a lot of stuff not factored in etc

Perhaps an individual or a family with an acre or two, a cow for milk, pigs chickens etc, use of FYM, composting etc you could become self sustaining ...with a **** ton of hard work....you couldn't have any other job though and it wouldn't be a model for commercial production to sustain anything like the kind of lives people lead now...it would be mostly looking after your own needs...maybe sell a small amount of excess.

I quite like the idea above personally but I doubt there would be mass enthusiasm for it and I'm not sure I'd like it when the reality set in...+ I wouldn't be anxious to have anyone seriously suggesting it as policy with their hands anywhere near the levers of power...

It's just a set of targets for now, nothing else, for all sectors. There is lots to be worked out and and put in place. Nobody, including those in agriculture, knows just how all of this is going to work over the next decade.

Ah yes the "how many cows have you milked" argument!

Brilliant!

Let me consult the family farm records. It might take a while.

Seeing as you are the economist and know more than KPMG apparently then why don`t you tell us how much this would add to our economy and numbers employed. More or less than Brazil increasing their herd numbers by 24 million by 2030. You could also throw in how much of a global reduction in GHG cutting our herds while Brazil increases theirs will result in. I mean it`s all about global emissions is it not ?

Looking forward to your expert analysis, but I suspect that even you know these proposed cuts are B.S. and your post is nothing more than a little hissy fit.

Not only that but it was the usual suspects in the Green Party who pushed the target of slashing emissions by half when the already ambitious EU target of cutting emissions by 30 per cent compared with 2005 levels was more than enough to be getting on with.

Why does it take external media to highlight the insanity of allowing the greens anywhere near our national legislation. The Climate Action Plan 2021 they've religiously pursued seeks a cut in electricity emissions of between 62%-81%. How the fuq will that happen when the relentless pushing of unreliable renewables means we continously have to use gas, coal and everything else just to keep the lights on?

And its not just Ireland. The exact same issue is effecting all European countries which do not have Nuclear energy.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cut-down-on-cows-but-our-irish-farms-feed-the-world-5hndlf92j

When all the targets are utterly unrealistic - does it really matter what the figures are?

Why has Green Party religously pushed the target of slashing emissions by half when the already ambitious EU target of cutting emissions by 30 per cent compared with 2005 levels was more than enough to be getting on with?

And then there's a constant refusal by greens here to acknowledge the role agriculture and forestry has in carbon sequestration. That electricity generation by renewables is a disaster. That taxing industry and people into the ground is not a solution to anything. Simply more head in the sand approaches to reality to promote green ideology over reality.

Thing is it boils down to the greens attempting to become the replacement for religion, where we are the worst sinners and must have the worst punishments in order to show what good little boys and girls we all are. They need to get a grip.

Frightening that.