The European Union has caved in to angry protests from farmers, cutting its target to scrap specific agricultural emissions which formed part of the bloc’s net zero drive.
A demand to reduce nitrogen, methane and other emissions linked to farming by almost a third has been removed from a wider Brussels plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040.
The issue isn’t reducing emissions or eating less meat. I’m sorry but farmers were idiots after WW2. They believed everything what politics said to them and implemented everything. In others words, they implemented “producing more for cheaper”.
In a documentary, a farmer said that he double his production of pork because politics said he will make twice the profits. This is just an example. We could go further with agro-chemicals.
They believed people whom promised magical money. Farmers shouldn’t be mad at the ecology but at the capital which drive them in the actual situation. The capital after WW2 changed how they have to produce. The agri-food business makes profits out of it not the environment.
And, farmers since the 60s and 70s invested in new production facilities to produce more meat. But, if people want to reduce their consumption of meat, famers can produce the quantity they want, they won’t sell it. And, agri-food corporations will lower the buying price and farmer will be fucked up.
Well done farmers. You enslaved yourself to the capital and now are blaming everything except what you did…