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Proposal to pay farmers €5,000 to cull cows
Irish Farmer's Journal ^ | July 27th,2022 | Jack Kennedy

Posted on 08/03/2022 10:27:50 AM PDT by Mount Athos

The Department of Agriculture estimates the move would take 45,000t of carbon dioxide equivalent out of the atmosphere for every 10,000 cows culled.

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The move would "directly reduce agricultural activity" in Ireland and would reduce greenhouse gas omissions.

(Excerpt) Read more at farmersjournal.ie ...


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To: alternatives?
What are they going to do with the land?

Solar farms

41 posted on 08/03/2022 12:36:56 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Mount Athos

Could see culling excess males in a herd but not the herd.


42 posted on 08/03/2022 12:38:56 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: alternatives?

This is insane. What are they going to do with the land.

Put up solar panels and wind turbines.


43 posted on 08/03/2022 12:43:40 PM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: Mount Athos

It’s making me wonder if the Mad Cow Disease was just another lab-created excuse for a trial pandemic run.

I talked to a dairy farmer in Ireland who was forced to kill his entire herd in 2001 or so. He stopped giving the “girls” traditional names after that, like Daisy, Molly, etc. All his cows after that were tagged with numbers.


44 posted on 08/03/2022 12:53:06 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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To: Mount Athos

What in the GD EffING F*** ARE THEY THINKING?

WHAT POSSIBLE REASON IS THERE FOR THIS?????

THE COWS ARE ALREADY GROWN, SELL THEM AND USE THE MEAT

$5000 IS GOING TO DO WHAT, EXACTL, FOR ‘THE ENVIRONMENT’???

THE COWS ALREADY FARTED ALL THE METHANE THEY ARE GOING TO


45 posted on 08/03/2022 12:55:22 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: ridesthemiles
Strange how many very religious people cannot believe God knew what he was doing when he gave us cows/sheep/chickens, etc.

They also think he was 'way off base by saying "Be fruitful and multiply." And yet, farm production per acre has steadily increased in First World nations due to human ingenuity, techniques that NGOs are sharing incrementally with the Third World.

46 posted on 08/03/2022 12:56:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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To: Mount Athos

I also used to wonder how a maniac WW2 dictator, whose name I will not mention- but I can say he spoke German- found people willing to kill for him.

Today’s crazy millennial liberals seem like they would be eagerly willing to.


47 posted on 08/03/2022 12:57:55 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Mr. K
I also used to wonder how a maniac WW2 dictator, whose name I will not mention- but I can say he spoke German- found people willing to kill for him.

Schikelgruber?

48 posted on 08/03/2022 12:58:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mount Athos

Not sure why they want to starve, but I’d imagine hungry people won’t play along.


49 posted on 08/03/2022 1:38:57 PM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: mware

It’s already being done...since forever. Bullocks are castrated, and left to fatten up then it’s off to market the steers go.

That’s what’s in your steaks, urban dweller.


50 posted on 08/03/2022 2:00:52 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: Mount Athos

This is going to result in the deaths of millions.


51 posted on 08/03/2022 2:15:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: Mount Athos

These people are literally insane.


52 posted on 08/03/2022 2:17:36 PM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: Mount Athos

How FDR ordered it done in the 1930s..millions shot and buried.

https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/crops_17.html

Ten years later those same agricultural agents were begging those same farmers to “Increase beef production” for the war effort.
Kind of hard to do when your seed stock was shot and buried ten years before.


53 posted on 08/03/2022 2:36:55 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” – Aristotl)
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To: circlecity

Roosevelt did that in the thirties at the height of the depression. Didn’t work except to make more cattlemen go broke.


54 posted on 08/03/2022 2:41:08 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Mount Athos

And it will make ZERO difference to the planet. If anything it will do more harm than good.

Free range cattle make divots in the ground for seeds and water to accumulate in so new growth can occur. Take that away and you can turn a fairly green vibrant area into a barren wasteland thereby cutting down on CO2 to O2 production nature so conveniently provided.

As they say; you can’t fix stupid and the climate Nazis are about as stupid as they get.

The stupid never think things all the way through. They think one or two steps ahead and are stumped when things didn’t work out as they thought it would. They think they are virtuous and smart but really they are Fidiots of the first order trying to fool Mother Nature.


55 posted on 08/03/2022 4:07:18 PM PDT by Boomer ( George Orwell: “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” )
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To: Mount Athos

I guess they forgot about the Potato Famine.


56 posted on 08/03/2022 5:43:52 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

There was plenty of food during the Famine in Ireland, it just all got shipped to England.


57 posted on 08/03/2022 5:44:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fretzer

I see signs all over Pennsylvania farmland identified as “preserved open spaces” that can never be developed. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is part of a 2030 initiative.


58 posted on 08/04/2022 4:46:29 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: fretzer

I just read up on the Saudi “The Line.” What a maintenance nightmare.


59 posted on 08/04/2022 5:08:36 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Mount Athos

If the cows are killed where do the climate change zealots expect the Irish get milk, butter, cheese and meat or are the people expected to just start eating bugs?


60 posted on 08/04/2022 8:42:57 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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