This is EXTREMELLY painful to watch!
Labour MP Diana Johnson insists the #FarmersProtest will NOT change Labour's stance on taxing farmers out of existence.
She then arrogantly refuses to admit Labour lied.
A truly astonishing interview.
What a car crash! pic.twitter.com/dI3SSbs0hl— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) November 19, 2024
See South Africa. Katie Hopkins gets it.
More on the Westminster farmer protest on X
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and what’s theirs is theirs and what’s yours is theirs.
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have declared war on small family farms like this one in my constituency.
Their inheritance tax raid will destroy rural communities.
We need them to think again. pic.twitter.com/XNovBqaTs9
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) November 3, 2024
Companies that have paid to source agricultural produce that complies with the European Union’s anti-deforestation law would lose out if the EU decides to delay implementing the legislation by a year, industry groups and traders said.
Deforestation is the second largest source of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change after the burning of fossil fuels, according to the European Commission. The EU had planned to ban the import of commodities from suppliers unable to prove their goods were not linked to deforestation.
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) would have impacted imports of cocoa, coffee, cattle, soy, oil palm, timber, rubber and related products such as chocolate and leather.
It was scheduled to come into effect Dec. 30, but the EU Commission recently proposed a 12-month delay, under pressure from industries and governments who said it would cause supply chain disruptions, exclude poor, small-scale farmers from the EU market and drive up the cost of basic foodstuffs because many farmers and suppliers were not ready to comply.
The EU’s vegoil and oilmeal group Fediol said its members, which include trading giants such as Cargill and food processors such as AAK, will suffer losses from a delay after paying premiums to secure raw materials that comply with the law.
“It’s a financial loss they are making by having been ready on time,” Fediol director general Nathalie Lecocq said.
Cocoa processors and chocolate makers face the same scenario with traders saying they had sold deforestation free beans to them at a premium of up to six per cent.
The premium will now likely fall to zero because consumers won’t be willing to pay more for cocoa that complies with a law that has been pushed back.
Related: Trudeau’s Anti-Growth Agenda Chokes the Life Out of Local Economies
Bill C-293 is arguably the most concerning legislation I've seen in 25 years. Under the guise of pandemic preparedness, it grants the government excessive power to potentially reduce meat consumption in favour of promoting plant-based diets.
My chat with @SenatorWallin. ⬇️ https://t.co/CygnAQfw5D
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) September 29, 2024
Blacklock’s- Gov’t Polls On Meatless Diets
In-house Privy Council researchers have polled Canadians’ willingness to adopt a vegetarian diet for the sake of climate change. Only seven percent of people surveyed identified themselves as vegetarian or vegan.
A United Nations report Healthy Diets For A Healthier Planet blames livestock, poultry and seafood production for emitting greenhouse gases. “Red meat, dairy and farmed shrimp are generally associated with the highest greenhouse gas emissions,” said Healthier Planet. “This is because meat production often requires extensive grasslands which is often created by cutting down trees.”
Research out of Tufts University three years ago created the Food Compass—a new guide to what is healthy that rivals the Food Pyramid for sheer lunacy. Advising us that Froot Loops and Pringles are healthier choices than meat and eggs, the authors of that research are now promoting ESG + Nutrition, in which their Food Compass informs governments and private enterprise on how to get the population of the world to follow along.
All to protect an EV sector that was dead on arrival.
The Canadian Independent- WATCH: Ontario farmers and concerned citizens protested at the township council building this evening over Waterloo Region’s attempt to acquire 770 acres of precious farmland for reasons that remain unclear.
h/t Scott
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It’s smooth, it’s creamy, it fills your heart with love. Who can’t wait for a big mouthful of Bill’s butter?
New York Post- Bill Gates wants you to eat ‘butter’ made from air to fight climate change
What you’re about to see may be the single craziest training video that I’ve ever seen.
A @JohnDeere source sent me this video where employees are trained on what to do if they overhear employees saying that they’re uncomfortable with trans identifying men in women’s restrooms.
I refuse to pay a tax when my cattle fart. So don’t even think about it Justin. Denmark taxes cow farts.
Globe and Mail- Landmark EU nature restoration plan gets green light despite months of protests by farmers
Under the new law, EU countries will be required to restore at least 30% of habitats such as forests, rivers, grasslands, wetlands, lakes and coral beds deemed in poor condition by 2030. This percentage is set to increase to 60% by 2040 and 90% by 2050. The law also introduces specific requirements for measures to reverse the decline of pollinators.
World Economic Forum- Feeding the future: why Renovation and Reinvention are key to saving our food system
Our global food system is in urgent need of transition. At present, one-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production. At the same time, the global population is projected to reach nearly 10 billion people by 2050, which could increase the demand for food by 60%. Many of the ways we grow, manufacture and consume food are causing a dual crisis of human and environmental health, and the complexity will only intensify.
h/t Jim
Also.
And by golly, a famine is what we’re going to get.
WHO Director-General calls for a “transformation” of the food system, away from meat-eating and traditional agriculture, in the name of fighting “climate change”:
“Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet. Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for almost one third of the global burden of disease.”
“Transforming food systems is therefore essential, by shifting towards healthier, diversified and more plant based diets.”
Anyone with a farm tractor, transport or other vehicle going slow on the highway on April 1, to protest the carbon tax hike that day, would be charged under the Highway Traffic Act for endangering people.
There was a shrug from the dairy and cash crop farmers, transport drivers and other drivers, including a Scot with a French accent wearing a tin foil hat, all congregated in Herb’s Truck Stop parking lot.
They had seen this movie before, where threats were made.
Patience. They’re working on it.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch… or not.
FARMING in England is facing a crisis as thousands of farmers have accepted government payments of up to £100,000 to leave their land. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) say that their ‘Lump Sum Exit Scheme’, launched in 2022 by Boris Johnson, aims to ‘support farmers in England who wish to leave the industry’.
It has been successful. Last month Defra told me they had received ‘just over 2,200 eligible applications’. Approved farmers who want to throw in the towel have until May 31 of this year to transfer their land, but there is no rule that says it must remain as farmland.
Contrary to a previous statement, Defra said: ‘The scheme itself doesn’t have any specific restrictions – however, we expect that most of the surrendered land will stay as agricultural land.’ Earlier they had said: ‘In return for signing up to the scheme, farmers need to either rent out or sell their land or surrender their tenancy in order to create opportunities for new entrants and farmers wishing to expand their businesses.’[…]
It comes from the Absolute Zero report produced by six of our universities, Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, Nottingham, Strathclyde and Imperial College, and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a government agency. The research programme goes under the name UK FIRES with the convoluted slogan Locating Resource Efficiency [RE] at the heart of the UK’s Future Industrial Strategy [FIS].
They suggest drastic measures. By 2029 (five years from now), they aim to reduce beef and lamb consumption by 50 per cent. By 2030, they recommend that fertilisers are phased out, by 2050 all beef and lamb production should end and energy used to cook and transport food should be reduced by 60 per cent.
