I am only against animal farming which is a waste of resources and produces very low yield food.
One kilo of dead animal for 8 kilos of food the pigs eat.
It takes a huge amount of land and water to produce all that food and then waste it on livestock.
In most parts of the world people eat very little meat as a necessity.
Growing grain or veg. or pulses etc for people to eat is a great service to the world and good on those folks.
Remember two of the three people I mentioned in the post you quoted were involved in the animal feed business.
I am on good terms with everyone around where I live.
If they are animal farmers, into shooting or in one case even fox hunting, I just don't talk to them about that.
I wouldn't judge someone on just one part of their life. Usually farming folks are perfectly nice otherwise.
I don't think I slagged of argi science graduates other than saying it was striking how many of them stayed in the agriculture business when usually college is a path away from it.
Bear in mind I haven't met any of these people since I was 14 in 1990.
It was probably muddled thinking on my part to bring Irish farming into discussion about Tory education values.
We need huge reform and transition to more sustainable agriculture and this will cost big money but it has to done.
The Indo cover today has a story that there will need to be 200,000 less cattle in three years time to meet targets.
