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I know what we are all seeing on tv this week is upsetting, but we need to face the fact that we can’t afford to be fussy about our food in the years to come.
I hate to say this but factory farming is necessary and production will need improvements in the coming years.
The biggest problem we all face is “global warming” and its affects on our weather system. Basically it means crops will fail more often and flooding of the land will increase. Sea levels will increase too with the affect of losing parts of arable farmland; droughts could turn other parts dustpans.
Has a country we have never been able to produce sufficient food to meet our own needs. Most of our current food is imported and sourced from other parts of the world. We have little or no control on how its produce or how its transported to the UK.
Has the planet change in the coming years food produce will have to change too.
If what they are saying about “global warming” is true, we could face a similar problem that we have will oil now.
Meat could become a luxurious item on our menus, fresh vegetables a thing of the past for most of us.
The changes we are making now to our farming practices will have lasting affects in the years to come and we should be thinking more of how to improve and increase our production, not decrease them.
Or do we need to go war over the price of a cabbage?
Factory farming isn’t necessary. I buy my meat from the local butchers, who buys its meat from the local farms. The local cattle has miles upon miles of fields to be free and graze.
Most of the farmland is uphill, thus remained undamaged by the flooding of the local reservoir which by comparison is downhill and has flood defences to minimize damage (downhill drains etc that leads to a part of the village where no houses are)
So if my local butchers survives without factory farming, why can’t others?
At the moment we can afford to do that smiley, but times are changing and I don’t know how long we can afford to continuo with those kinds of farming practices.
The affects of global warm are not instance.
I would say look at all the farmland that was flooded this summer and ask how that would affect the price of food if they happen every summer.
Prices have gone up and some vegetables are in short supply after the floods.
But I just told you that our local farms were unaffected by the flooding because of the flooding defences in place.
I buy fresh fruit & veg from the green grocers and I buy meat from the butchers, all from local farmland with no factory farming involved.
It might be a little more difficult for cities and big towns to survive like that though, but city folk deserve to die anyway. They litter and graffiti and are rude.
You do seem to be missing the point here.
So let me put it in simple terms.
If your local farmer can get a higher price sell this goods elsewhere, the price you are paying now will go up.
A shortage of the useable farmland, means the price of all food goes up.
Its call supply and demand.
It don’t matter where you live, farmers are in business and will sell their goods to the highest bidder
So? I pay more than average as it is already, but I know I’m paying for a better quality of goods than someone buying from a supermarket.
I don’t mind paying extra. You’re the one missing the point, you’re claiming traditional farming is dying and we need factory farming, yet, just yesterday I bought a joint of beef, a lb of sausages, 3x 16oz gammon steaks (I really like gammon) and some pork crackling from the local butchers.
Without any kind of factory farming involved. It might have cost me about £5 more than a supermarket, but, the meat is better, bigger, thicker, juicier and tastier than any supermarket cack.
That is you completely, always thinking of the short term.
You need to look at the bigger picture and think about the next 20 years.
I won’t be here in 20 years, no concern of mine. Besides, most of you lot will be dead in 20 years! So why worry? :P
Do we NEED factory farming? Morally no. Economically yes apparantly we do.
But at least we can choose.
We just need supermarkets to stop what is as bad as breaking the law and stop labling up factory bred chickens with green grass on the flipping lables fooling the less clever folk :shock: :twisted:
supermarkets are directly to blame for the terrible conditions that factory farming allows. any animal that isnt perfect is killed. and every animal that isnt killed along the way is pumped full of saline and antibiotics so the meat looks nice on the shelf for us, the buyers. its hard for any family to be able to afford a chicken at 8 quid when they can but 2 for a fiver. but thats the price you pay for some peace of mind. some may say that having a sheite life is ok. cos then the animal will get relief from death. [anita gofra] for instance.but i disagree. i would far rather eat a well reared beast than an an animal who has never seen daylight. but as i say each to his own.
vegitarianism is a big choice to make, but personally id rather be a veggie than eat an animal that has been reared in a factory. no one should feel guilty for what they eat, and if they do ? there is a decision to be made. to eat flesh or to not eat flesh. cos that is what it is. plain and simple flesh.
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