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Dutch people give FARMERS VICTORY!!!!!
I struggle with the meat eating thing. I could do without but hubby really needs meat. We live beside a farm. I have no qualms when it comes to seeing the life the cattle lead. The youngsters even play, and they get a good couple of years of very happy grazing in open countryside. So, if I felt confident that the slaughter was humane (I suspect it's not), I'd feel OK about it.Have a look at this - from a cattle farmer in Australia. It is worrying enough that they insist on cattle being pumped full of antibiotics - it gets worse.... this reminds me of why I stopped eating meat. Poor animals, what the hell did they do to deserve doing this to them?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hLLDZn9DYdMx/
Veganism kills far more animals than any form of meat production.I struggle with the meat eating thing. I could do without but hubby really needs meat. We live beside a farm. I have no qualms when it comes to seeing the life the cattle lead. The youngsters even play, and they get a good couple of years of very happy grazing in open countryside. So, if I felt confident that the slaughter was humane (I suspect it's not), I'd feel OK about it.
But that said, we've talked about chickens or rabbits for meat and we really don't think we could do it. So if you can't slaughter them yourself you probably shouldn't be eating meat.
I could manage if we had eggs, milk, cheese. We are planning to get ducks (not least for 'slug patrol' and compost making) and I think possibly we could manage to keep a couple of small goats, but I'm not sure how much milk that would give us.
The planet is not over-populated: cities make up 2% of the landmass.I think it's impossible to know what impact humans are having on the global temperature. For all we know, our actions *COULD* be helping to keep things in check! Scientists don't understand enough to be able to say for sure that we aren't SAVING the planet from wild temp swings!! We don't even know how to accurately test the impact of our actions. So any drastic action COULD make things worse. Which is foolhardy to say the least.
But no one can deny that we're trashing the planet. Constant increase in population and constant increase in each person's consumption can't end well! That's what led to my interest in sustainable living/gardening. I can only do me, and my contribution is to try and move as close as possible to sustainable living.
In all honesty, I think the obsession by governments with global warming is just an excuse. If they genuinely believed their own rhetoric they wouldn't be acting the way they are. Personally, I think this is all a cover for the fact that the global system - the world economy - requires constant expansion. If economies stop growing the house of cards comes crashing down - and that would lead to utter carnage. Constant growth of the economy requires constant growth in consumption of resources - including energy. If energy (and other resources) don't get ever cheaper and more abundant then economies can't grow. I suspect they're hiding the real problem behind the global warming narrative. "Yes, I know it's terrible, but if we don't all make these huge sacrifices the world will end!" (of course, notice the politicians and wealthy aren't exactly cutting back!).
Don that is what we all want to do - just garden! We do not turn the thread into something else at all. What will you do when you are no longer allowed to do your gardening? The problems that we try to point out to our friends are for the benefit of all. This terrible truth has been happening, by stealth, over a very long time, and we have all been programmed to believe all that has been slowly fed to us.No comment . I'm just gardening. This is supposed to be about Ancient gardening and y'all done turned it into your "global warming " rant.
No comment . I'm just gardening. This is supposed to be about Ancient gardening and y'all done turned it into your "global warming " rant.
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