Posted on 07/12/2023 11:11:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
For months now, the proposals for the Nature Restoration Law have provoked heated debate and exchanges between farming organizations and environmental and other NGOs.
Today’s narrow majority vote for the watered-down version of the Law in the European Parliament was greeted with mixed reactions on all sides.
The text passed today has removed all mention of re-wetting, and other measures targeted at the agri(culture) sector.
Nevertheless, farming organizations remain wary of the law and what it will mean for them.
IFA President Tim Cullinan was in Brussels for today’s vote. “There is real and genuine concern that there will be significant ramifications from passing this law in this format. There is still a lot of ambiguity around what the law will mean and with no impact assessments undertaken at Member State level the impact on farm incomes, food production and farming practices is unclear.”
He adds: “The debate became about whether people are for or against nature, which is a misrepresentation of the situation. The detail of the proposed ‘law’ is the issue.” …
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Beautiful Nature covered by the bodies of dead humans
Farmers need to be heating up their kettles of tar and plucking those chickens.
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