LEBANON, Pennsylvania — You may not be aware that there’s a symmetry in Pennsylvania between farmers and the natural gas industry. But just walk into the Keystone Pork, Poultry Progress and Mid-Atlantic Manure Summit here at the expo center in Lebanon County, put your hands on the propane-shaped stress ball, and […]
Image: Bill Sponsor Rep. Bud Hulsey Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Kelly M. Jackson] – This week in the Tennessee House Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee, a bill that will prevent the state from compelling those who raise livestock from being forced to vaccinate their animals passed and is now headed to full […]
SUPERMARKETS are creating a crisis that is devastating family farms. Research shows that due to unfair business practices, nearly half of British fruit and vegetable producers believe they will need to give up their farms in the next 12 months. Organic farmer Guy Singh-Watson, who founded the Riverford veg box delivery company, said the future […]
Image Credit: Canva The Tennessee Conservative [By Kelly M. Jackson] – This week, a bill that will protect farmers in the state of Tennessee from being compelled to vaccinate their animals under orders from state agriculture authorities is being presented in committees in both the House and Senate. HB2801/SB2543 as stated in the caption text: […]
MANY major arteries connecting Europe have been obstructed or brought to a standstill in recent days by a wave of protests by farmers against what they claim are overly burdensome environmental targets and unsustainable levels of bureaucracy associated with EU and national farming regulations. The warning shots of this showdown between policymakers and farmers were […]
“So we’re cool now, guys, right? No more messy, unfortunate, noisy demonstrations?” isn’t the bigger story today the target for 90% cuts in emissions by 2040? While I agree on the edges you have green measures that are being scaled back, the direction of travel remains amazingly ambitious. I think “rolling back” is a bit […]
IT’S A terrible shame that British farmers seem to lack the spirit of most of their European counterparts, particularly the French, whose spectacular protests in recent days have gladdened the hearts of all who long for freedom from the unaccountable forces that assail us. The widespread protests are gathering momentum across every country in Europe […]
As to the climate cultists, if they were planning on going anywhere near Brussels today, it might be a better idea to stay put. The figurative sacrificial chickens for your cult haven’t come home to roost on the streets surrounding the European Parliament building – the literal ones have. European farmers began descending on the […]
IN a distant echo of the Franco-Prussian War – this time with tractors rather than cannons – Paris is once more under siege. French farmers have, with military efficiency, cut off the main motorway arteries feeding the heart of the capital. Their message is simple: ‘no farmers = no food’. In 1870, starved of provisions […]
THE environmentalist George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian, has belatedly entered the conversation regarding the unprecedented farmers’ protests in Germany and Holland against fuel price hikes and other damaging penalties in the name of Net Zero. According to Mr Monbiot, while it appears to be a populist movement, it is in fact being stage-managed by the ‘far right’ and the […]
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