Dairy, arable and beef farmer. Somerset, England. Married with 2 great kids. Passionate about all things farming. 2008 Nuffield Scholar.
Joined April 2012
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The $24 Billion Plant-Based Meat Scam 🥩
Wall Street tried to reinvent the cow.
They raised billions. They used celebrities. They built meat in a lab.
Now they're bleeding cash, and your great-grandmother is laughing from heaven.
Here’s how the scam fell apart… 🧵
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With Farmers under pressure from multiple direction I’ be fascinated to learn why @asda have decided this is an appropriate time to start stocking Uruguayan beef. There is no excuse for this huge betrayal of the UK’s hard working family farms. Consumers and Farmers deserve better
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🚨BREAKING: Parliament are set to debate banning halal slaughter in the UK.
The Muslim Council of Britain warns this would force many Muslims to leave the country.
Should Halal slaughter be banned?
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Questioning Keir Starmer in PMQs on farm inheritance tax - and on the EFRA cross-party report calling for a pause.
The PM’s response will be a disappointment to farmers and to many on his own benches, who are convinced that the government should rethink the tax on family farms.
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He’s right. After 10-12 years, cos methane is broken down into CO2, entering a carbon cycle absorbed by plants via photosynthesis, converted into cellulose and eaten by livestock and the cycle starts again. The very essence of environmental sustainability.
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Not one warm period in history could have been predicted. Not one was caused by carbon dioxide or human culture. CO2 made no difference despite being the source of life & oxygen. Climate is the ceaseless flowing of tectonic plates, volcanoes & ocean currents not fake ideology.
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£2.5bn for British steel. That’s the same as the annual budget for agriculture….
Steel industry employs 33,700 - contributes £1.8bn to the economy 🏭
Agriculture employs 285,000 - contributes £13.7bn to the economy 🌾
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He's right in what he is saying. If God did create everything why did he create so much misery and suffering?🤷♂️
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Hi @DefraGovUK, I fixed it for you. You're welcome.
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In the last 5 years, and since the appointment of
DEI supremo June Sarpong (280K/yr for a 3 day week) the BBC has discriminated against white people on an industrial scale. Management were told they would get bonuses by meeting 20% quotas. Good experienced people dumped. Others promoted above their abilities.
I've tried to expose this. Now it's official. Hurrah.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03……
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You can teach kids how to brush their teeth in school but it’s parents who need to stand with them, twice a day, every single day. I do mine at the same time with my grand daughter when she stays. Not hard - just time. Maybe it’s some parents that need to be brought into school ?
More schools to be asked to supervise toothbrushing bbc.in/4bxDIPv
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“Vaping may be more dangerous to the body than cigarettes - putting long-term users at risk of dementia, heart disease and organ failure, according to the author of a bombshell study.”
Perhaps vaping products need taxing at similar levels to cigarettes.
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“Imported food has been found to have residues of 48 pesticides that have not been approved for use by British farmers, including chemicals linked to cancer and imidacloprid, which is harmful to bees.”
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What do you get when a doctor, a farmer and an earth scientist team up to write a book about food’s impact on human and planetary health? 300 pages packed full of lesser known facts and razor sharp insights shedding new light on things you might think you already knew. Fascinating and compelling. A must-read.
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