Freda Scott-Park

Veterinary surgeon; wife and Mum to organic farmers. One Welfare advocate: human and animal welfare, and mental health. Passionate about tea with flavour!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A solar farm just opened where a beef farm used to be.

This is a real sentence about a real place. In Lincolnshire, near Glentworth, on land that grew British food for six hundred years. 1,214 hectares of grazing pasture and cropland, the size of Heathrow Airport, now under panels for the next forty years.

It is called Tillbridge Solar. It was approved in October 2025. The locals were against it. The local council was overruled by central government. The farmer who used to graze cattle on that land will not be grazing cattle on that land in your lifetime.

Down the road, Springwell Solar got the nod the same month. 1,280 hectares. The largest in the country. Same story. Beef and arable, gone.

This is happening everywhere. CPRE found that 59% of England's biggest solar farms are on productive farmland. In one Lincolnshire district, 7% of the land is now solar panels. Three solar farms, Sutton Bridge, Goosehall, and Black Peak, are built entirely on the highest grade of agricultural land we have.

Now here is the part nobody mentions at the dinner party.

The roofs of the warehouses on the A1 are empty. The supermarket distribution centres are empty. The Amazon sheds, the MoD car parks, the industrial estates outside every town in England, all empty. CPRE's own numbers show that putting panels on the roofs we already have would meet the entire 2035 solar target on its own.

The panels are not going on the roofs.

The panels are going on Lincolnshire because leasing one field from one farmer is easy, and leasing a thousand roofs from a thousand owners is hard. The shortcut is the pasture.

You will not be told to stop eating beef.

You will simply find that the farm that produced it is now a power station, and the beef in the supermarket has come from Kansas, and it costs more, and the cow is no longer in the field, because the field is no longer a field.

Cover the roofs. Leave the pasture.

[Danny Chambers MP 🔸🩺 @DannyVet]

There's a proven link between people deliberately harming or sexually abusing animals and going on to commit domestic abuse.

@TheLinksGroup have been highlighting this issue for years.

Currently the law does not allow us to identify these people early.

This needs to change.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A wool jumper, made in 1985, washed in cold water once a month, worn through three decades of British winters, would currently be sitting in someone's wardrobe doing fine.

A polyester fleece, made in 2026, machine-washed weekly, will start to lose its structural integrity within three to five years, shed an estimated 700,000 microfibres per wash into the water system, and end its life in landfill where it will persist for approximately 200 years.

The wool jumper:

- Came from a sheep
- Required grass and rain
- Will biodegrade entirely within three years of being buried
- Will keep you warm when wet
- Will not melt if exposed to a flame
- Will probably outlive you
- Cost £80 in 1985, which is £230 today, and represents the entire jumper budget for the next forty years

The polyester fleece:

- Came from an oil refinery in Texas
- Required hexane extraction, polymerisation and dyeing in three different factories on three different continents
- Will not biodegrade in any human timeframe
- Will get cold and clammy when wet
- Will melt against your skin if exposed to a flame
- Will be in landfill within five years
- Cost £40 in 2026, which means you'll buy ten of them across the next forty years for a total of £400, and the planet will still be eating the residue in the year 2226

But yes. The sheep is the problem.

The sheep, standing in a field in mid-Wales, growing a renewable fibre from grass and rain.

The sheep is the problem.

[Freda Scott-Park @fredatheflea]

@elonmusknews30 Yes

[Farm Safety Foundation @yellowwelliesuk]

Today marks the start of our 13th annual #FarmSafetyWeek

13 years of stories

13 years of heartbreak

13 years of lives changed forever

but still too many rely on luck to get home safely

Please get involved all week - like & share our content or post your own 💛

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

…are the #bees are too. So as you reach for some liquid refreshment remember to top up our #wild friends too.
And be considerate and vigilant around the sources of #water you provide and keep in your garden/yard.
Please pass this on.
Thank you.
#Retweet for the bees!
🙏🏼🐝
11/11

[Freda Scott-Park @fredatheflea]

@sheepfarmer782 Right with you there Jen. Dearg, our much loved Border Collie is a skinny lad too. Happens to be fluffy but he’s delightfully lean underneath. Which keeps him nimble, fast, athletic- all attributes they need. Wish I was a bit leaner…🫢

[Freda Scott-Park @fredatheflea]

@sheepfarmer782 Start to build up your liquid consumption (preferably water) to 3-4 litres a day. Try to stop taking meds. They cause re-bound headaches. Feel for you.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

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[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

A land forged by fire and sculpted by ice..

Iceland is truly extraordinary 🧵

1. People gathered around lava, Iceland.

[HITA @HIThistleAwards]

🎉 Congratulations to Glenegedale House Islay ! 🎉

We’re thrilled to announce that Glenegedale House has won the Best B&B or Guest House Experience at the Highlands & Islands Thistle Awards 2024! 🏆 Congratulations!

Category sponsored by Abbey Ireland & UK. #HItA24

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

A land where surprises never end... this country is built different 🧵

1. This is Huangluo, a village in China. The woman in this village only cut their hair once in their lives at 17 as a rite of passage

[Freda Scott-Park @fredatheflea]

@bouldie Presumably one of their passports with names quite visible 😂😂😂

[Freda Scott-Park @fredatheflea]

@MrAndrewCotter Our fields @PortnellanFarm - to decimate our cows’ autumn grass. Please re-direct elsewhere 😬

[Freda Scott-Park @fredatheflea]

@IslayEmma So sorry to hear the horror Emma. It leaves a nasty empty spot in your tummy when you get unreasonable demands that you cannot meet and then get picked on in a snarky review. Onwards and upwards. What you do is amazing.

[Sheila Voas @CVOScotland]

Minister for Agriculture + Connectivity @JimFairlieLogie confirmed today @future_vets_SCO that @scotgov will increase rates we pay (via @APHAgovuk) to official vets (OVs) in Scotland for work like TB testing, Anthrax + Brucellosis tests. New rate applies for work from tomorrow.

[SRUC Vet School @SRUCVetSchool]

We were delighted to host Liam Kerr MSP to hear about SRUC’s progress towards Taught Degree Awarding Powers, Widening Participation via our tertiary education programmes at Craibstone’s Department of Rural Land Use and the School of Veterinary Medicine’s new BVSci Programme.

[University of Glasgow @UofGlasgow]

Charlotte almost didn't make it to University. As a care-experienced person, her educational career was disrupted, and she left school at 16.

Last week, she graduated from the University of Glasgow with first-class honours in History & Sociology.

She excelled through her sheer determination, hard work, and support of our @UofGWP team and community.

We're so proud of you, @charlottearmit7! ❤️

#UofGGrad24 #TeamUofG @UofG_Alumni @UofGSocSci @UofGArtsHums

[Gilly Mendes Ferreira @Gilly_SSPCA]

Looking forward to @ChildreninScot conference on Thursday!! Together with @DrJoWilliams and our brilliant #AnimalGuardians team we @ScottishSPCA will be running a workshop on 'Understanding animal abuse & how to intervene with children and young people' #Support #CiSAC24🐾

[Portnellan Farm @PortnellanFarm]

As enthusiastic members of @lovelochlomond we were delighted to be asked to write a bit about our farm story for @ScotAgritourism month. Two farming businesses- us and @Lennoxoflomond offering warm hospitality to visitors to #LochLomond #ScottishAgritourismmonth