Marcin Misiak

🧑‍🌾 hobbysta.

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Britain holds its farmers to some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world, and then signs trade deals that wave in everything those standards forbid.

Take the Australia deal, and go through it sector by sector, because the gap is not a matter of fine print.

Pigs. Britain banned the sow stall, the metal crate that stops a pregnant pig from even turning around, back in 1999. Australia still permits it.

Hens. Britain banned the barren battery cage in 2012. Australia still cages its laying hens that way.

Sheep. Britain does not allow mulesing, the carving of skin from a live lamb's backside, usually with no pain relief. In Australia it is routine.

Cattle. Britain does not finish its animals in industrial feedlots. Australia finishes more than forty per cent of its beef in them, some single yards holding fifty thousand head. It also implants growth hormones across much of the herd, banned here on principle. The deal is supposed to keep that hormone beef off our shelves, though farm leaders have asked how on earth that is policed, given Australian cattle carry nothing like the lifetime traceability ours do.

Then the things that cut across every shed and field. Britain does not brand its cattle with a hot iron, makes CCTV compulsory in every slaughterhouse, and keeps farm antibiotics on a tight leash. Australia still hot brands, has no consistent slaughterhouse camera rule, and by one analysis uses many times more antibiotics per animal in its pigs and poultry than we do.

So the British farmer, doing every bit of this the hard and humane way, paying for every inch of that higher welfare, is then undercut on price by product made the cheap way, the way we banned on principle. He is punished, in effect, for his own decency.

And the prize for it? The government's own figures put the gain from the Australia deal at around two hundredths of one per cent of GDP. Call it the price of a chocolate bar per person per year. For that, the herd was put on the block.

Here is the detail that should end the argument. George Eustice, the man who was Environment Secretary while it happened, later stood up in Parliament and admitted the deal gave away far too much for far too little. The minister who signed it told us, afterwards, that it was a bad deal.

We built some of the toughest welfare rules in the world, and then opened the market to everyone who would not live by them.

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@horniacos Murzynów szukasz?

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@michalz90 @TypowyKrzysiek2 Wojna na wschodzie pokazuje dobitnie co jest dzisiaj potrzebne. Rakiety bezzałogowe które nie używają GPS u, drony i rakiety do zestrzeliwania tych że systemów. Te samoloty są beznaczenia, jedna noc i ich nie mamy..

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@wrobelgo @TypowyKrzysiek2

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@KosiniakKamysz Wiadomo, przestarzałe technologie trzeba komuś opchnąć. Ci drudzy teraz będą się tym cieszyć

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@MisMilus @k_berenda @RMF24pl Nie muszę sobie wyobrażać, jestem mechanikiem. Szanuje Twoje zdanie

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@polo510PS @k_berenda @RMF24pl Jesscze coś masz do powiedzenia?

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@wrobelgo @TypowyKrzysiek2 Moze byc i 20,5.

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@polo510PS @k_berenda @RMF24pl Idiotą to ty jesteś bo pod glupim nickem tylko kozaczysz

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@MisMilus @k_berenda @RMF24pl Ile ty masz lat że poruwnujesz samolot wojskowy do samochodów?

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@MisMilus @k_berenda @RMF24pl Kupione na pokazy czy do walki?

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@polo510PS @k_berenda @RMF24pl No właśnie gdzie ,,bojowy,,.

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@pomaska Przyjdzie fo konfliktu a samoloty z powodu zużycia będą uziemione... Klasyk.

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@gregor_konop A moze łojciec

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@wrobelgo @TypowyKrzysiek2 Moze byc po 500 warunek 15t/ha

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Znowu podzielicie rolników @StefanKrajewski @rzecznik_mrirw Sezon 26/27 powinny dotyczyć dopłaty. Rozdać pieniądze z sensem to jest sztuka. https://t.co/CRPVpvk0gk

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@ArkadiuszSzczu2 Walka o sianko

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@Keskolail_ Duze prawdopodobienstwo ze ten zetor jest Parczewski

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@LeszekMiller Duda to zdrajca Polski