🗣️ National Farmers' Union east regional livestock chairman Hugh Broom counters Chris Packham's latest argument about eating vegan “bacon” to save the planet...

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THREAD. A number of people have responded to this tweet that there is nothing wrong with a company a) making a profit and b) that supermarket margins are in any case low. Both of these things are true. But the supermarket sector is unlike any other. A bit of background. 1/

Last night at the City Food & Drink Lecture Sainsbury's CEO Simon Roberts argued the company protected consumers from food inflation. And yet they still made £690 million profit. Given the challenges for food producers, I'm asking: is that okay?

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This article gives an excellent assessment of the challenge there is to get honest engagement when it comes to culling badgers, their crystal balls, pretexts and protests were manufactured simply to protect badgers at whatever cost, they were entirely wrong, they won’t accept it

Helena Horton Now that there’s a peer reviewed paper in Nature that refutes this claim made by the badger trust will you report on the impact culling has had for the life of the national herd with massive reductions in TB attributed to reducing badger population density nature.com/articles/s4159…

Damian Carrington when you write articles like this and the academics predictions are 10 years later proven to be wrong, do you ever go back to the people and ask them why, is the record ever set straight in the light of the evidence? theguardian.com/environment/20…

Let's follow the science. Which science, whose science and how tested. Current policies based on selected science based on crude calculations using a subset of data collected via different and highly debated methodologies is to much like the back of a fag packet for me.

10 years on, this has aged well, there is no scaleable plan to vaccinate badgers, no deployable cattle vaccine & despite Brian’s laudable investment no new validated test by WOAH to find residual infection in cows, culling badgers reduces TB by 58% youtu.be/YXTnH2QZJL

⁦Jack Bobo⁩ with a fascinating insight into #foodsystems
‘If people won’t change their behaviour to save their lives, do we expect them to change it to save the planet’
Refocus the £100 billion cost #nhs of food related problems pa - just think what could be done in Ag!

Emissions in the UK are at a 150 year low and 40% lower than 1990. Jack Bobo
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Quote of the day from Jack Bobo 'consumers won't change the way they eat to save their own lives, so l doubt they'll change the way they eat to save the planet'
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Our cattle contract has landed, offering 30p above base. But that's the same 30p we were offered in 2018 (should now be 37p RPI), we must now finish stock 2 months sooner & offer environmental information. More for the supermarket for less money 1/3

Thoughts on this anyone?

What's happening? Anti-cattle lobby claims huge dietary shift from beef at same time as last week's GB R3 steer av hit 501.5p. More astonishingly SthEng 499.5p, M/W 499.5p, NE 503.7p & Scot 504.9p. Is GB understocked, is retail demand unusually high or are vegans etc just wrong?

(2/2) He also talked about our help to members in Kent and Norfolk and nodded to the resources on NFU Online for members who want more information👉nfuonline.com/updates-and-in…
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(1/2) Livestock board chair, Richard Findlay (Richard Findlay) updated #NFUCouncil on BTV and and the significant hardship it brings for farmers. He added that we continue to work with Defra and the industry core group to help develop the response and future policy.

Farmers should brace themselves for more #Bluetongue later this year, says NFU livestock board chairman Richard Findlay. Spread by biting midges, no vaccine for BTV-3 strain. Dutch farmers losing 35-40% of sheep in outbreaks. Huge yield impacts on dairy cows and fertility.

A shameless piece of promo here. If anyone is at a loose end 2nd January at 6:30pm, myself and Annabel will be appearing on Look North on BBC 1 NE&C. talking about our experience of the transition to ELMS and diversification. 1/2