Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
In the UK the local administration will nearly always be filled with the landed gentry, so would probably result in fewer actual farms being farmed.
this fucking country.
The kulaks are revolting - does Urban back big farmer?
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In the UK the local administration will nearly always be filled with the landed gentry, so would probably result in fewer actual farms being farmed.
this fucking country.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Most "fallow" fields do in fact have something planted in them. Just not a cash crop. Just leaving them to nature doesn't work as well, so I think the limit is fine so long as planting clover or whatnot doesn't count as "unused".
Which is a bit rich considering how many Tories are tax dodgers. And farmers complaining about tax.I'm shocked, shocked I tell you:
Farmer protest organiser was behind racist and homophobic posts online
Clive Bailye, one of the five farmers who organised the march in the capital, wrote: "only a disabled, unemployed, black, LGBT, transgender, non tax paying, homeless, vegan immigrant in immediate need of NHS help" would vote Labourwww.mirror.co.uk
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PTK
Paul Kegan
I thought that it was on last night's episode that it was shoe-horned in.
PTK
Paul Kegan
Tha't a relief. I am not going sealion.
I thought that the mention of the farmers' protest was a little clumsy.
_Russ_
Never not Knowingly Misunderstood
Urban 75...innit, most of the UK Population have a completely manipulated idea of the majority of Farmers crooked parasitic ways
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
I think as usual this has been distorted by the very wealthy landowners and people buying up land to avoid tax....my cousin's husband who has been what he called a 'cowman' all his working life (now retired) working on different farms, only comment to this was that for all the whining he'd never come across a 'poor' farmer
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
This.
No without reason they all vote tory.
Rompipalle
“Mad as hell & I’m not going to take this anymore”
Rebecca Riot
Well-Known Member
A lot of people have this romanticised vision of farming with cows grazing in the meadow and pigs snuffling about in the mud. Of course there are still farms like this but it's becoming increasingly industrialised. There's a mega dairy in the next village to me where they have 2000 cows who spend their entire lives indoors being fed on high protein food so they can be milked 3 times a day instead of the normal 2. I've lost count of the number of times the company that owns the farm has been fined for 'accidentally' releasing slurry into a nearby stream but they're making so much bloody money they just pay the fine and carry on.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Even in this thread there appears to be a perception gap between those who have experience of working on/living amongst farms and those whose experience of the countryside is predominantly based on visits.
“Ten landowners - just ten! - own one sixth of Dorset. They include Jonathan Harmsworth... whose family own the Daily Mail. Are alarm bells beginning to ring over the way this debate's being framed?”
Solid point from the twitter thread a few pages back. The whole argument is a mess - the change is a good one that only affects a few incredibly rich landowners pretending to be farmers. The rest is just noise by people deliberately misleading or being manipulated.
Solid point from the twitter thread a few pages back. The whole argument is a mess - the change is a good one that only affects a few incredibly rich landowners pretending to be farmers. The rest is just noise by people deliberately misleading or being manipulated.
Rompipalle
“Mad as hell & I’m not going to take this anymore”
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
58% of the country up in arms for the sake of 500 landed gentry. It's like the middle ages all over again.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I've lived in the countryside most of my life and I'm in a position to confirm that farmers are all cunts.
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
Clearly I also live in the countryside and I don't think that.
I do sometimes wonder at the whole "legacy" thing though. By that, I mean being born on a farm and being expected to farm, negates people who don't want to do that or aren't really interested/don't like science etc.
For example: on the last thread, you didn't really understand how plants grow, and aren't really a "science guy" but equally why should you if you aren't interested in either science or applying it? I assume from other threads that you've posted on that you are quite intelligent, but clearly science isn't your thing/you don't know much about it - which is fine.
But it wouldn't be if you'd been brought up in an environment that demanded that you grew up and applied biology/chemistry for a living.
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Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
Fuck the farmers. Jump on your pyre squire.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I'm a science teacher. And a molecular biologist by training. It's this background that puts me in a position to call you out for your relentless, bad-faith shilling for industrial animal agriculture.
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
By training? You mean you have a Batchelor's degree?
You didn't even understand how plants used nutrients on the last thread.
FWIW I trained as a secondary science teacher and completed my NQT year before I left for HE and the standard of scientific knowledge amongst the teachers wasn't exactly encyclopaedic, but then I've marked some pretty poor undergrad theses who still went on to achieve a degree.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Well that's always a risk when you let people mark their own work.
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
I don't think thats quite the withering put down you think it is.
Apart from anything else, you should probably know that all theses are moderated by somebody else to ensure valid and consistent grades.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Somebody else who works at the academic institution that gave you a job, yesterday:
Oooh...
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