It's no less toxic - just toxic on the left rather than the right with little tolerance for diverse views.

Does the US still have hate crimes?

Who is this unqualified pillock?

(It's a rhetorical question by the way).

Will it include the people who actually produce the food?

And before you ask, I give you: banning veal & sow stalls; banning microbeads, more extensive marine protection, enforced air quality targets, legislated net zero & climate change targets. I'd also argue recent changes to UK gene editing laws will improve animal welfare & reduce pesticide use. 2/2

What’s on the table as part of Keir Starmer’s EU deal? From security and immigration to food standards and fisheries, the key elements in the prime minister’s wide-ranging new agreement with the bloc

It makes me laugh when people talk about EU animal welfare, environmental & food safety laws as if they're some kind of utopian ideal. They're not. There are many cases of the UK moving more quickly, more smartly or further in all these areas. 1/2 www.thetimes.com/article/e8e9...

Why are you guys all hand wringing over this? Haven't you got bigger problems?

From chicken to potatoes, Britain’s never grown less of its own food Cheap imports and poor returns from farming mean our self-sufficiency is in peril. Some even think we’re on the road to rationing

We've never grown less of our own food... www.thetimes.com/article/7a9c...

I thought I was reading a story about the situation in the US. But no...😔

Evening will come. They will sew the blue sail. By Ian Hamilton Finlay.

I love the fonts he uses. This makes me feel so peaceful every time I look at it.

Why is the media even giving them any oxygen?

It's rubbish I'm afraid.

Er no. Wales has NOT reduced TB more effectively than England. Unless you have data I haven't seen?

Yeah. That is a problem....

And I'm now institutionalised. I start to twitch if I have to head in front first.

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There's a reason why it's mandated in many large European companies involved in construction. Your safest first move is forward.

Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources

And here we all are worrying about accepting that calendar or bottle or wine from suppliers at Christmas. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

It was kinda what put me off watching Titanic.

Mildew. I hate the mildew.

‘Net zero is a f------ con’, says mining tycoon going green — The Telegraph Interview: Andrew Forrest is on a mission to prove that business nous and climate evangelism can coexist

If you read to the very bottom of the Telegraph article

He wants Fortescue to reach what he calls “real zero” by 2040 – where fossil fuels are no longer used because there are better alternatives.
“I believe net zero is a f------ con,” he says. “Real zero is serious. Just stop burning fossil fuel.”

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You can't have food production in brownfield soil.

I love solar, but when every other country in the world manages to have it on roofs and car parks and down central reservations, why are we condemning thousand hectare blocks of land to a future which is this then brownfield when we have no idea what our future food production capability will be?

Furthermore, land under panels might sequester significant carbon, but if you're then going to dig all the pilings up again, how much are you releasing back into the atmosphere through those earthworks and land movements?

Only if managed in that way. Adoption of regenerative practices would have a different outcome.

I would say certainty of development afterwards, given destruction of the existing drainage infrastructure and hundreds of steel and concrete pilings extending 4-5m into the soil. What else could anyone do with it? And I'm not sure we're having honest conversations about that permanent change.

Also, what happens at the end of the solar farm life, say in 40 years? Because I'm not really buying the 'it returns to farmland'. How can it be greenfield when it has concrete pilings all over it? I'm presuming it goes for development, and if so, how does that affect the carbon stored?

Can I ask where that comes from, that carbon builds in soils more quickly under solar panels than in conventional farmland...and is the emphasis there on conventional as opposed to farmland actively managed to capture carbon?