Peter Pearson

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

Absolutely insane. Vital for everything. But also evil

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

94% of water attributed to beef production is rainfall. Rain that was falling on that pasture anyway. Rain that the grass absorbs, the cow drinks, then pisses back into the soil within 24 hours.

This is called the water cycle. You might have learned about it in primary school.

But environmental groups count this rainfall as "water used by cattle" to inflate the numbers. They don't count rainfall for plant agriculture because then the comparison falls apart.

When you look at actual blue water use, which is water drawn from rivers and aquifers, beef uses 600 litres per kilogram. That's less than rice, less than almonds, less than avocados, less than nearly every plant crop that requires irrigation.

British grass-fed beef specifically uses almost zero irrigation because British grass grows on rainfall alone. The cow drinks from streams and natural water sources. No aquifers drained. No rivers diverted. Just the natural water cycle that's been operating for millions of years.

Meanwhile your oat milk requires industrial oat cultivation with irrigation, processing water, and cleaning water for the factory equipment. But nobody counts that because oats are wholesome and cows are villains.

The water argument against beef is statistical fraud. They're counting rain as consumption and hoping you won't notice the sleight of hand.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

“Farmers are land rich and cash poor. So we ended the estate tax. When a parent leaves a farm to the kids, they do not have to worry about their local banker coming in and stealing their farm.”

~ Donald Trump’s inconvenient home truths to Keir Starmer.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness delivers a great speech in the parliamentary inheritance tax on family farms debate:

It is possible to challenge one’s Government. I said to my Whips then that the best service we could do the Government was to prevent them from doing something stupid, harmful and alienating to voters. I hope that Government Members can see that, because the Opposition cannot change this. People outside say to me, “Can we get this changed?” It is actually up to Labour MPs. They have the majority. Democracy is not about having a majority and doing what one likes. Democracy is about listening and doing what the now Prime Minister told the NFU when he said:

“You deserve a Government that listens, that heeds early warnings”.

There are one or two warnings about. Listen, change: if the Government change, four years on, no one will remember the U-turn. Whatever civil servants say—they are always very keen to stick with a policy—if it is wrong, stop doing it. And this is wrong. In the minute and 20 seconds I have left, let me say why it is so wrong. We have touched on the various elements, but I am not sure we have pulled it all together.

We have a really peculiar group of businesspeople in this country; they are called farmers. They take a return on capital—the millions they have invested in their farms—that is typically less than 1%. There is nobody that I am aware of—no business I was ever involved in—that would remotely consider continuing in an industry that paid less than 1%. These farmers take a pittance and get up at 4 o’clock in the morning for the privilege. They look after the animals and it does not matter if they are ill; they cannot carry their employment rights and go, “I’m not well, I shouldn’t have to go out,” because the cows do not care: they have to go out and look after them, and then they get less than 1% return.

Those farmers, the most beneficent public-minded businesspeople in the whole country, then provide excellent food at among the lowest prices in Europe. If ever there were a business that we would not want to go and mess with, it is these—I should not say it, because I will make enemies of them.

We must understand how remarkable it is that there is a whole group of businesspeople who take practically nothing from their business, work all the hours God gives, and provide us with some of the finest food in the world at among the lowest prices in Europe. Why would we want to mess with that? Not only do they do that, but they brainwash their children from the earliest age so that they carry on doing it. These people are in indentured service to the nation, providing food while making very little profit. They do it willingly and, in fact, love it: it is their life. To go and mess with them out of some stupid, socialist spite is ridiculous and absurd, and Government Members know that—the hon. Member for North Northumberland certainly does, and he should lead his colleagues to tell the Chancellor to change course, just as we did in 2012 when George Osborne got it wrong.”

[Adam Day FRAgS @lakesauctioneer]

Morale is at an all-time low among many farmers in Cumbria, particularly in the hills. Good livestock prices don't mitigate the growing desperation.

It feels like an industry and its communities are being swept away under a wave of net-zero and nature narcissism. I am so worried

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

If you’re a farmer struggling with your mental health, you can text the word 'Hawkstone' to the number 85258 for a professional, confidential, 24/7 chat line.

With mental health struggles on the climb throughout the industry, PLEASE reach out to anyone if you’re struggling.

Repost this please, it could help someone. 🤝

[Landeur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Landeur]

Imagine this:

My dad is a farmer - single man. The farm has been in the family for a long time - it's worth £4m quid in total. We make £40k per year from the farm.

Dad dies, we get 1m tax free, but suffer 20% of £3m, which is 600k, on the rest. Can't afford it, sell the farm.

I've still got £3.4m. What am I gonna do with it? I buy a property portfolio, driving housing prices up in my local area, and rent it out to you.

Where I used to make a 1% return on my assets, I now make 5%. I am getting richer for doing a lot less, though I have had to give up producing food for you to eat in super markets.

I'm okay, because I'm rich, but Britain either produces less food, or BlackRock produces food for you.

Britain's food supply is gradually more and more controlled by foreign investors, but I can still eat good because I'm rich.

I did try to warn you that this would happen, but you insisted you wanted me gone. So I am currently living in my second home in Spain sipping margaritas and collecting about 10 grand a month from the letting agency.

You are eating bugs. Happy?

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

If you want to raise tax revenue easily you tax people when they have money. Farmers don't have money when they inherit farms. So why tax them then? Makes no sense. If you must have their money Rachel Reeves, get it when they actually sell https://t.co/oUARqZqWMg

[Harry Metcalfe @harrym_vids]

I’m starting to despair at the nonsense coming out of @10DowningStreet at the moment.
Like many UK farmers, all the cattle on our farm are grass fed and produce beef in a carbon positive way.
Such a shame the UK government refuses to champion this fact, even though they reward us for producing beef this way via increased CS & SFI payments

[Angus Gowthorpe @angusgowthorpe]

An excellent letter by Sir James Dyson. Well worth reading, many valid points, and we in our ‘farming’ bubble need to remember that it’s all businesses that IHT applies too, & is equally unaffordable to many of them.

[Margaret Thatcher @realmrsthatcher]

Once you compress incentives from the top-down and say, "It doesn't matter how much you earn I'm going to take the lion's share away," they say, "Alright, I'm no longer going to do the lion's part." Then they stop creating the extra wealth which would benefit both themselves and society as a whole.

[Robbie Moore MP @_RobbieMoore]

Calling out Labour’s disastrous #FamilyFarmTax 👇

[Simon Knott @TheSimonKnott]

The 15th Century font at Conisbrough, South Yorkshire for #FontsOnFriday. The east-facing panel here depicts the Resurrection. The west-facing panel on the other side depicts Christ in Judgement.

Conisbrough: https://t.co/27BWWxjl8u

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯
https://t.co/lrfyLK3ID9

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This Is BIG ‼️

“I'm not making it up. The University of Nebraska just got a got done with one of their studies that the way to save the world on carbon is raise more cows. K. And that's because cows are carbon negative”

“They produce more oxygen than they put off methane and carbon. It means to eat more cheese burgers or steaks. Beef, to save the world.”

“According to a 2023 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) report, beef production can be climate-neutral or even better if management practices are optimized to minimize emissions and maximize abilities to store carbon.

Some of the ways UNL research suggests that cattle’s carbon footprint can be reduced include:

Diet: Cattle that eat more forage and added fats produce less methane and other greenhouse gases than those that eat more grain and less forage. Fat supplements can also reduce the need for grain.

Production efficiency: Improving production efficiency can result in more cattle being marketed or more live weight being produced while using fewer resources. This can be achieved through breeding, feeding, and health programs.
Supply chain: Buying feed that’s grown nearby can reduce shipping emissions.”

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🚨🇨🇦 “The Banks & The Government have colluded to financially enslave the people of Canada”

Brilliant 12 year old girl exposes banking scam in language a 12 year old can understand.

Apply same logic to every Central Bank backed Country.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Cows have a digestion system that emits methane. We need to change cows and work towards artificial meat.”
~ Bill Gates

He fails to point out that methane from cows breaks down into CO2 & water after 10 years. Grass absorbs the CO2 by photosynthesis & the cycle repeats itself.

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

The UK isn't short of problems. But this - horrible horrible public sector productivity - is one of the worst (and most expensive).

[Harry Metcalfe @harrym_vids]

New Harry’s Farm video is now live..
UK beef farmers are under attack; here's my response to C4's The Big Bri... https://t.co/k7oQq43cKx via @YouTube

[Harry Metcalfe @harrym_vids]

Thank you for sharing your findings. Facts are good at times like this..