The senior VP of a Finnish dairy questions the research behind breeding “low-emission cattle” by pointing out that methane is produced by microbes in the gut, not the cow itself.
The advent of scientific ‘progress’ and the marginalisation of the farming world have given the illusion that we can do without them. Climate change has put things back in their proper place, and we are seeing the return of rogations and processions in our countries.
A stone in the EU’s shoe is a Poland-led loose alliance of five nations bordering Ukraine that, in a bid to protect their farmers, wish to extend a ban on the sale of Ukrainian grain, a demand that if not met, some warn they will satisfy unilaterally.
Comparable in exasperation to recent Dutch protests, Irish farmers gathered to object to the imposition of nitrogen quotas, as the Irish government looks set to commence the mass culling of livestock to meet environmental goals.
While nothing is certain, it looks like the Nature Restoration Law will be defeated Wednesday as Parliament’s President Roberta Metsola aired EPP fears that climate legislation was triggering a wave of anti-green populism in Europe.
