Jenny Jones Green Member on London Assembly has called on the Green Party to support the UK dairy farmers.
So much so a UK Gov. petition is a link on Greens home page!
Just don't mention to the greens the dairy climate change connection..methane..
from a so called party that represents the environment???
Miss Jones is on the Metropolitan Police Authority too!Whatever next???
So much so a UK Gov. petition is a link on Greens home page!
Just don't mention to the greens the dairy climate change connection..methane..
from a so called party that represents the environment???
Miss Jones is on the Metropolitan Police Authority too!Whatever next???
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Dairy farmers and supermarkets. Two reprehensible organisations.
22.07.2012 11:31
These 'poor' farmers are the same folk that are going to start killing badgers (legally for a change), that also force animals into pregnancy again and again until they're worn out and are shipped to the nearest slaughterhouse. The unwanted male calves are also kept in appalling conditions and killed for veal. It's a disgusting way to treat sentient living beings.
The supermarkets won't destroy an important market such as dairy. But they'll squeeze a bit more out of them. Maybe the dairy farmers will have to up the quota of antibiotics and growth hormones shoved into unconsenting animals to try and drive profitability.
Eitherway, the real sufferers are being neglected whilst idiots play petty politics over $$$.
Mr Moo
'whatever next??'
22.07.2012 17:38
They have no guns. They can't force anyone to do anything, unlike the state.
Milk prices are too low because supply is greater than demand.
If the farmers really think that this isn't the case, and the supermarkets are just being greedy, why don't they try selling it direct to the consumers, themselves?
Whatever next??
State intervention, of cause!
Agricultural policy, socialised redistribution of wealth from those who supply what people want, to those who supply what people don't want.
anarchist
more complicated
22.07.2012 17:45
But... supermarkets driving prices down is one of the pressures leading to the intensification of dairy farming, leading to worse conditions for the animals. That and the economic pressures of capitalism itself. So while dairy farming is inherently unethical, maybe it's better for the cows (in a minor, reformist, way) if the farmers win out against the supermarkets.
anonymous
I'm no fan of dairy farmers
22.07.2012 18:54
acac
blah blah blah blah
23.07.2012 18:18
Pureheart anarchist who never engages with the system, er, right