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Next time you see sheep in our beautiful English countryside… 🐑 Never forget that 72% of all sheep in England are slaughtered by halal methods. Brutally, painfully killed while the Muslim slaughterer shouts “Bismillah Allahu Akbar". Right here in England. Yes, be angry.

Spraying just one dandelion with roundup will kill 100+ pollinators. The flower won't die right away and will be visited by dozens of bees and butterflies, poisoning them as well. NEVER spray spring dandelions. Ever.

“Cow farts are destroying the planet.”

Let's check in on Gerald's ongoing campaign to end civilisation. 5:55am - Gerald woke up and began his attack on the atmosphere by existing. He walked to the south corner, as he does every morning, without being asked, in the dark, and began eating grass. The bumblebees that depend on the field scabious he's been inadvertently cultivating for three years were still asleep. Gerald improved conditions for a pollinator he has never seen, then had breakfast. The planet groaned. 7:30am - Gerald produced a pat in the mid-section. Dung beetles arrived in eighteen minutes. They always arrive. Gerald walked away. 9:15am - Gerald found the gap in the north hedgerow where blackthorn had been putting up vigorous new leaders into the field. He removed both. He also cleared the rank grass overhanging the hedge base, letting in light. A dunnock pair that had been watching from two metres returned to their nest forty seconds after Gerald moved on. Gerald did not know about the dunnock pair. Gerald had found something edible. 11:00am - Gerald lay down in the south corner. The lapwings worked the east margin above him. The kestrel sat on the fence post watching the vole runs. The dung beetles were underground. The mycorrhizal network under Gerald extended fractionally deeper. Gerald was asleep. 1:00pm - Gerald grazed the south-facing slope, maintaining the fine-leaved fescue community the harebells grow through. He does this every afternoon. Neither he nor the fescue have discussed it. 3:00pm - Gerald worked the east section, which hadn't seen him in three days. The coarse grasses had been making territorial progress. Gerald addressed this. 4:30pm - Gerald browsed the east hedgerow. The spring survey will give it 48 out of 50. Nobody will note who prepared it. 5:45pm - South corner. Asleep. Total ecological damage: immeasurable and entirely positive.

The sheep converts upland rain into wool. The wool goes in your coat. Your coat keeps you dry on a Cumbrian fell in November. Without the coat, you are wet and very cold and making poor decisions. Without the sheep, there is no wool. Without the wool, there is polyester. Polyester is made of oil. The oil sheds microplastics into the water when you wash it. The microplastics are in the fish. You are eating microplastics. The sheep was not part of this problem. The sheep was, specifically, the solution to this problem. We replaced the solution. Now we have the problem.

Countryside vandalism.

Please explain @DevonCC @Keir_Starmer Such destruction is unacceptable.

A nice picture of rural Suffolk, England. Preserve these places. Object to solar panels and ugly housing estates. And remember when it's gone, it's gone. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Let's check in on Gerald, who is diverting food from starving children. 6:00am - Gerald ate grass. The grass grew on a 40-acre clay slope that has been permanent pasture since 1763 and cannot grow human food. The starving children situation was not affected by the grass. 7:30am - Gerald ate some hedge browsings. Hawthorn and field maple trimmings from the east boundary. Not on any nutrition label. Cannot be processed into human food. Gerald ate them. The hedge now needs less management. Gerald charged nothing. 10:00am - Gerald ate some brewers' grain. This is what is left after barley has been used to make beer. It is spent. The sugars are gone. The protein remains, but in a form that is nutritionally marginal for humans. The options for this material are: Gerald, biogas, or landfill. Gerald ate it and is turning it into beef. 12:00pm - Gerald ate silage. Silage is fermented grass. The grass came from the same field it always comes from. The field cannot grow crops. The silage cannot go to Ethiopia. Silage requires a rumen. 2:00pm - Gerald ate more grass. Gerald has now been eating things that cannot feed humans for eight consecutive hours. At no point today did Gerald intercept a food supply. At no point today did Gerald remove calories from the human food system. At every point today, Gerald was converting materials that are nutritionally useless to humans into beef, B12, zinc, iron, creatine, heme iron, and fat-soluble vitamins. The beef will go to the abattoir. The beef will go to the supermarket. The beef will go to families in Ledbury and Bristol and Wolverhampton. Gerald is the only system that connects these waste materials to human nutrition. Gerald does not know about Ethiopia. Gerald does not know about the global food system. Gerald is in the south corner. Gerald is converting the unconvertible. You're welcome.

By 2035, the British countryside will be unrecognisable. 🇬🇧 Labour’s framework is about control. They want to tell farmers how to farm, it’s our food security that will suffer. We should be cutting regulation to support profitable farming; not making life even more difficult.

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2 years of winter fuel, a gym membership, and a heap of therapy… all sitting in one pile 👍💪 100% renewable, sustainable, zero miles, from winter fallen branches Labour and @Ed_Miliband, want to ban this Completely detached from reality, this is rural Britain they do not understand #Farming #Countryside #RenewableEnergy #RuralEconomy #EnergyCrisis #FoodSecurityIsNationalSecurity

Once our farmland is gone… there’ll be no getting it back. Solar panels belong on malls and parking lots. Not on farmland.

A 50 year old oak tree consumes 50 - 100 gallons of water a day. So when trees are felled for new housing developments or energy projects and there's flooding on the land, there's a simple reason why isn't there. It's not climate change. It's decimation of our countryside. It's destroying nature. It's stupidity. It's greed. It's dreadful government policy.

"Vegan leather" is plastic. "Vegan wool" is plastic. "Vegan fur" is plastic. Every wash cycle releases microplastics into the water. Every year it degrades slightly and releases more. At end of life it will sit in landfill for four hundred years or end up in the ocean. The sheep, meanwhile, grows a new coat every year, requires it removed, and produces a fibre that has been biodegradable since the Neolithic. But yes. The sheep is the environmental problem. The sheep, standing in the Lake District in the rain, growing renewable fibre from grass. The sheep.

If you invented a machine that could: - Restore degraded land - Build topsoil - Sequester carbon - Produce fertiliser - Create complete protein - Generate its own fuel - Reproduce itself - Require zero electricity You'd win the Nobel peace prize. Instead, we blame them for climate change. These cows will be tending to their fields as they always have, while city-based career politicians discuss their impact on national climate agenda.

An investigation by the CAevs found that in some areas of Wales, Chinese and Thai chicken accounted for 99% of Chicken served to Welsh school children. This is abhorrent on so many levels. Schools should be serving locally sourced whole-foods.

I would encourage everyone, where possible, to grow your own food - particularly for children to learn about the process. It is incredibly rewarding.

It's an absolute lie that 88% of halal meat in the UK is stunned. The Mohammedan definition of 'stunning' requires that the animal is able to regain consciousness and is alive when Allah’s name is called at the time of slaughter. All halal (non-stun & 'stunned') must be banned. @Sargon_of_Akkad @firasmodad @lotuseaters_com

I drove for an hour today and didn’t experience the euphoria of which he speaks. Should I let some air out of the tires? Or loosen something?