{"id":260526,"date":"2023-06-03T21:17:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T19:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=260526"},"modified":"2023-06-03T21:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T19:17:25","slug":"irelands-mooted-cow-massacre-is-a-warning-to-net-zero-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=260526","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s mooted cow massacre is a warning to net zero Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Irish government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 dairy cows to meet its climate targets. It\u2019s madness<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


The collateral damage of net zero is now getting uncomfortably close to home. First Dutch farmers were threatened with compulsory purchases to satisfy EU emissions targets, fomenting a new revolt in the process.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Now it\u2019s Ireland\u2019s turn, where the government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 cows to meet its climate targets. The scheme would be a bit like voluntary redundancy, with farmers offered financial inducements to give up their cows.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


British beef and dairy farmers are now very jittery. It seems increasingly clear that there is an eco-modernist agenda to do away with conventional meat altogether. It\u2019s not just the Extinction Rebellion mob, either; many of the world\u2019s politicians are on board.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


It\u2019s very fortunate we\u2019re out of the EU or we could be facing the same pressure from Brussels. Now, we can only hope that Rishi Sunak, who represents a heavily rural constituency in the Yorkshire Dales, understands what\u2019s at stake for farming communities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Spending vast sums of taxpayer\u2019s money on destroying productive animals would be a perfect summation of the net zero madness infecting the West. The Irish Department of Agriculture has said that the report was just a \u201cmodelling document\u201d, but no sane government would even get to the point of including such a plan in \u201ca deliberative process\u201d. Why? Because it is irrational.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Dutch and Irish politicians have failed to recognise that regenerative farming techniques allow livestock farmers to help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. The technology needed to measure soil carbon accurately has recently been developed by a British company, Ecometric. The results are startling. Some British livestock farmers are now being paid for the net carbon sequestered into the soils after the methane from their burping cows has been accounted for. It would mean changing the way we farm to embrace holistic methods; mainly replacing cereal-based cattle diets with grass, but it can be done.<\/em>
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