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JamboWayOh 25,236 posts
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gammonbanter 2,282 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBreadBinLidHero wrote:
British agricultural will have to specialise and actually, hopefully, prepare for a post meat world.
gammonbanter wrote:
Surely not serious? This is almost like a Viz letter.
I'm genuinely looking forward to cheap meat from Australia and the US, when you put it in a burger or a sausage all quality concerns go out the window! And actually, I don't get what people mean by quality meat anyway? What difference does it make? We slaughter the poor creatures regardless and steal their milk. -
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Registered 18 years agoTechnoishmatt wrote:
Hmm. I had to do some checking on this. The quickest results I found are:
You'd be surprised. E.g It is lower carbon to eat NZ lamb than local lamb. Stuff shipped by container ship is pretty low carbon I believe.
"1 tonne of freight transported 1 km by a modern ship emits around 25 g of CO2" (from https://tree-nation.com/projects/inside-tree-nation/article/6884-the-carbon-emissions-of-a-packageparcel. They also quote a second figure "As calculated by Time for Change (2011), one tonne of freight transported 1km by a modern ship emits between 10 to 40g of CO2" so even if this is a greenie-leftie site it's within the bracket.)
Then looking at this: https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-footprint-food-methane
Gives 14kg CO2 plus additional 26kg equivalent from methane for a kilo of lamb.
Freight distance from New Zealand to UK is 14536 nautical miles (from: http://ports.com/sea-route/port-of-auckland,new-zealand/london-thamesport,united-kingdom/) so 26920 kilometres.
1 kilo of meat from New Zealand would therefore add 673g of carbon emissions, just barely over half a kilo. Yeah, I reckon if New Zealand has somehow more efficient lamb farming then it'll be better. Interesting result (I was expecting that this wouldn't be the case)! -
Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agogammonbanter wrote:
The current plan is for most of them to sell their land and retire.
British agricultural will have to specialise and actually, hopefully, prepare for a post meat world.
I mean... it's a sort of specialisation?
mrharvest wrote:
I'm not going to cross check the numbers, but page 61 (75) of this is interesting.
1 kilo of meat from New Zealand would therefore add 673g of carbon emissions, just barely over half a kilo. Yeah, I reckon if New Zealand has somehow more efficient lamb farming then it'll be better. Interesting result (I was expecting that this wouldn't be the case)!
https://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10182/125/aeru_rr_285.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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brokenkey 11,128 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYou missed the cost of refrigeration. -
X201 22,150 posts
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Registered 16 years agoSome of those numbers need closer inspection, especially the source for the U.K. fuel usage -
TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAnother Brexit benefit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-57299121 -
senso-ji 10,271 posts
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Registered 13 years agoJesus that is a sorry sight, but as Kent voted for Brexit it's hard to sympathise with the residents -
JamboWayOh 25,236 posts
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Registered 8 years agoTechnoHippy wrote:
Ahhh, so this is the sunlit uplands they always go on about.
Another Brexit benefit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-57299121 -
Jono62 27,356 posts
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Registered 13 years agoIt's definitely a lit upland -
Jono62 27,356 posts
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Registered 13 years agoThough to be fair, Ashford never voted for... Oh
https://election.news.sky.com/referendum/ashford-2709 -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWhat do they want to be looking at the sky for anyway? The sky isn’t Britain. Most of it isn’t even in our airspace. Focus on the important things, Ashford -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWhat Kent didn't realise is that the rest of the country is perfectly happy to let Kent get repeatedly shat on to Get Brexit Done.
I say 'perfectly happy', I mean 'finds it hilarious'. -
sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agoBritannia rules the stars! -
BreadBinLidHero 10,801 posts
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Registered 12 years agoEU flag has stars. Union Jack has no stars. Ergo these people complaining about not being able to see the stars are snowflake Remoaners. -
Stuz359 492 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThing is, ask a lot of people of they are in favour of wind turbines, they will say 'yes, absolutely.' In the same breath they will also say 'just not here.' -
djronz. 516 posts
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Registered 10 years agoBloody nimbys, all up for a massive, costly, eyesore of an entirely avoidable lorry park as long as its somewhere else. Any county in the county would be proud of this! -
Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoStuz359 wrote:
I think I'm one of the few people that likes wind turbines. They've been added to a ton of the Welsh hills that I ride in and I guess they've got a positive association there for me?
Thing is, ask a lot of people of they are in favour of wind turbines, they will say 'yes, absolutely.' In the same breath they will also say 'just not here.'
I'd also be quite happy for a Gen III nuclear power plant to be just around the corner from me, as long as I couldn't specifically see it. -
Gibroon 2,658 posts
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Registered 17 years agoUp in Aberdeen, they installed the largest off shore wind turbines in Europe. There were many complaints about spoiling the view of the coast. That same view normally consisted of mainly oil service ships hanging about waiting to get into the harbour.
I personally think they are great and give a good scale to the ships now.gif)
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Saul_Iscariot 4,399 posts
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Registered 9 years agoI like watching wind turbines. With the right sunrise, they make me think of the War of the Worlds, or the Lambda class shuttle, from Return of the Jedi, taking off. -
sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIt's also nice that they cool us down with a pleasant breeze during the hot summers we have now. -
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Load_2.0 33,582 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThere was a heated debate in Wetherspoons Scunthorpe this weekend.
If I was an EU citizen I can't say I'd be lining up to work in such an uplifting environment serving customers who respect and welcome your hard work. -
JamboWayOh 25,236 posts
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Registered 8 years agobrokenkey wrote:
But I thought there were thousands of hard working Brits just waiting to take on these jobs stolen by all them eastern Europeans???
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/06/01/wetherspoons-boss-calls-eu-migration-tackle-bar-staff-shortage/ -
Lukus 24,639 posts
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Registered 17 years agoHa, what a fuckwit. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoSolid gold. -
BreadBinLidHero 10,801 posts
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Registered 12 years agoDo we live in a parody timeline? -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoSpeaking of which:
https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCNewsNI/status/1399971568483246081 -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWhy'd he fucking vouch for it then? Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. -
Negotiated it no less!
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