No mention in the article of what the price increases are going to be after millions of livestock are killed.
Ireland’s livestock numbers, both North and South, need to be reduced if climate targets are to be met www.buzz.ie/news/irish-news/livestock-reduction-emissions-ca…
In order for legally binding climate targets to be met, and agricultural subsidies to be granted, the number of livestock on the island needs to go down…
Data released last week by the Department of Agriculture shows that the national herd stands at 6.66 million head of cattle…At the end of December 2020, there were more than 5.5 million sheep in Ireland…According to the North’s Agricultural Census 2021, total cattle numbers in Northern Ireland are just under 1.7 million. Northern Ireland has just under two million sheep…
In an analysis by KPMG, seen by The Guardian, it was found that a large-scale reduction in the number of farm animals was needed to meet climate targets. It’s estimated that more than half a million cows and 700,000 sheep would need to cut from the North’s herd in order for the North to meet its climate targets.
One of my uncles owned a meatpacking plant in Belfast.
The report forgot to mention Pigs. There is a heck of a lot of sausage and bacon coming out of Ireland. No I did not read the news article. No time for it. If it is there you did not add it. If it is not in there figure the surest way to alienate Irish readers is to go after their sausage.
The report forgot to mention pigs. There is a heck of a lot of sausage and bacon coming out of Ireland. No I did not read the news article. No time for it. If it is there you did not add it. If it is not in there figure the surest way to alienate Irish readers is to go after their sausage.
The climate regs in this case are focused on methane. It is produced in large quantities by animals with divided stomachs (ruminants). Pigs do produced some methane (as do humans) but not in large quantities.
California is regulating its dairy industry, but are concentrating on the poop and methane digesters.
Up to 65,000 dairy cows a year could be culled as the Government moves to bring the agriculture sector in line with climate targets, according to a report by the Irish Independent…
Farmers are willing to do their part from an environmental impact perspective, but it was important to acknowledge that the current dairy herd was at the same level as it was 30 years ago, said Mr McCormack. Numbers had fallen due to quotas more than 10 years ago, but had risen again in the past number of years.
Mr McCormack said that if a cull were to be introduced and it was voluntary, then some farmers would refuse while others would exit the dairy sector.
Ireland is supposed to have more cows than people…allegedly. A good bit of this overpopulation is a by product of the EU’s common agricultural policy, I suspect and the subsidies given to farmers to produce/overproduce, as the case may be.
I wouldn’t have thought an actual cull was necessary. Just cut the subsidies for that bit of agriculture and substitute, say rape seed oil production like in England a few years back.