Things we shouldn't eat (to save the planet)
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Meh, a planet without clotted cream isn’t a planet worth saving.
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I don't think you understand much about lambing.
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In this scenario, are you blind?
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haha obviously, though I wouldn't say that you "know" much about it either.
Back on topic. If ya don't like the way palm oil is produced, avoid Nutella (noooooo).
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I'm aware of the lifespan of a lamb (along with a lot of other posters) which is an indication that I'm on a level above you. Plus, I do regularly visit a sheep farm although clearly when that happens I'm considered a city person who can't handle mud rather than an expert in farming.
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Is that the same Nutella that have just launched a campaign based on their use of sustainable palm oil?
TBF they may have run out of the unsustainable supplies.
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My parents grow a lot of food as well as receive a couple of lambs that have lived nearby. I think that's got to be a decent start.
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Well we should be eating snakes according to the front page of the Times this morning (although the suggested target market for it was Southern Africa). Apparently it's 9 times more efficient than chicken in terms of turning protein fed into protein yielded.
What if, instead of growing the protein to feed to these animal middle men, we just produced the protein for ourselves......I know, it'll never catch on.
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I may be odd but when choosing what to eat protein is rarely one of my considerations.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
snake is quite tasty (as is crocodile), but i've not had snake for decades, they can be treated pretty cruelly, tbh i'd rather the reptiles enjoyed life
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Snakes can be pretty cruel to other creatures too mind
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It seems strange that it would be more efficient to eat to farm a carnivore than a herbivore, surely you'd have to farm mice or something to feed to the snakes as well?
If you're farming them in Cumbria, they probably need even more central heating that the lambs too.
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really? to be 'cruel' implies awareness both of the victim's potential to suffer and choosing to cause it, i believe they lack the capacity for that
however, we're in a position to know other creatures are likely to feel sadness/fear/pain/loss, we are capable of the empathy to imagine/understand how they may feel, we are able to choose to avoid inflicting suffering, or to be cruel
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The article suggested that areas even closer to the equator than Penrith might be suitable. Unpalatable waste from other farmed animals (eg chicken heads) was suggested as prime fodder for them. Not sure what that means for the supply of meat stock though.
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Isn't that abattoir energy rather than farm energy?
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mcdonald's doing their part for the planet...
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/15/mcdonalds_ordering_system_outage/
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I guess so but you were replying to TBB talking about sheep farms.
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End of term means from next week I can strt doing a bit of allotment work… time to put down potatoes, although they are always disappointing in my plot.
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The bit from farm gate to table isn’t really related to farming methods though.
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They’ll still be alive when they leave the farm.
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Interesting. I live in the Scottish Borders which produces a lot of lamb. All the sheep are grazed outside with plenty of space and so are the lambs , which generally are born from February onwards - never seen them kept in sheds. Farmers sometimes use lambing sheds for the lambs to be born.
Having travelled NZ quite a bit in the last few years there seems to be very little difference in the way sheep are farmed compared to locally, although in some areas the ground is very dry and free draining and you see massive irrigation booms watering fields in order for the grass to grow for grazing, which I have never seen up here.
Maybe sheep are farmed very differently in the South of Britain?
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No different down south, but not much sheep farming in the flatlands of Cambridgeshire.
Australia uses the irrigation booms to help grow grass for grazing.
Also Rick perhaps has never seen a sheep ship where there are thousands of live sheep onboard - a relatively common sight off the Western Australia coast for example.
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Increasingly, live animals are being shipped around the world. Something to do with lower import taxes vs butchered.
These unfortunate creatures are loaded onto converted factory ships to await their fate. The conditions aboard some are said to be horrific. This was brought to my attention by a news story about a ‘nauseating stench’ that had enveloped Cape Town, emanating from a livestock ship that docked there from Brazil.
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