The Netherlands has sought to implement hefty climate goals that would involve farmers culling at least 30% of the livestock, sequestering their land, prohibitions on other related practices, that ultimately will destroy farmer’s entire life’s and family’s work.
Ireland is now looking to implement something similar.
The Times reported that Eamon Ryan, the Green Party leader, and Charlie McConalogue, the agriculture minister, are set to implement a carbon reduction initiative of 27 or 28%, though 30% is still being debated as well.
The government is committed to meeting ambitious climate-mitigation targets and established a framework to do so. In the context of the framework, the government is required to establish sectoral ceilings.
The Department of Agriculture
Even so, there are some within the Irish Parliament that are not on board with this move, along with pressure from farming lobbyist groups and protestors.
The Times wrote:
One senior government figure predicted McConalogue might not conclude the discussions with Ryan this week if he felt the reduction target sought for the farming sector was too high. But failure to reach agreement before Wednesday’s cabinet meeting might only fuel further opposition from the farming lobby, and put pressure on the government right through the Dail’s summer recess.
With a cabinet reshuffle expected at the end of the year, government sources said McConalogue is under pressure to reach a deal with Ryan and not have the issue “kicked upstairs” for the three coalition party leaders to broker a compromise.
Jackie Cahill, a Fianna Fail TD for Tipperary and the chairman of the Oireachtas agriculture committee, is a former president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, one of the main farm lobby groups. He has told party colleagues he has never been lobbied as intensively on any single issue as he has been on the carbon emissions target for the farm sector.
One party source said he did not think Cahill could “live with” a 27 or 28 percent target for farmers.
Bill Callanan, a chief inspector at the Department of Agriculture, told an Oireachtas committee last week that “to even achieve the reductions at the lower end of the target range [22 percent] over the decade will require a significant transformational change in the sector, on a scale that has not been seen before for Irish agriculture”.
Callanan said “an unhelpful narrative” had developed that achieving a five million tonne reduction in CO2 emissions — the equivalent of a 22 percent cut — would mean “business as usual” for the farm sector.
That is clearly not the case. The targets assigned to each sector must be proportionate and reflective of the overall contribution. Unlike in other sectors where technologies and/or lifestyle changes can be utilised, there are no silver-bullet solutions to reducing emissions from the agriculture and land use sector.
He said.
Callanan said reducing and changing fertiliser types, earlier slaughtering of beef cattle and an increase in organic farming would “get us maybe 70 percent of the way there” but further measures including the development of methane-reducing feed additives and incentivising grass growth for the anaerobic digestion industry would also be needed.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.1 Timothy 4:1-3
The war on meats is intensifying every day. Regulars on The WP know that I report on this topic on a very routine basis, and 1 Timothy 4:1-5 is a passage you probably have memorized by now due to the sheer amount of instances I quote it. But it is for good reason: it is one of those pertinent prophecies screaming in everyone’s faces right now, but they are woefully asleep and blinded.
Though I have not reported on their exploits in several weeks, as have many others stopped covering it as frequently, the farmers are still rebelling against the government and causing havoc on the streets, blockading businesses and so forth. Therefore, many Irish will likely do the same.
But with these goals in place, here in the U.S., the imports of Irish dairy, butter, meat, and so on, will explode in price and disappear from the shelves, ushering in even more famine in the times to come.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I better stock up on meat and fish as well. I’m not eating that plant-based crap, and bugs – yeah, when pigs fly!
There goes the Irish butter. The way they took the nation, & then finally, even Ian Paisley. Wicked antichrist devils.