DianaBurp-less grass and Kangaroo farming a solution?
April 11th 2008 02:55
Australian Agriculture seems to be in a bit of a muddle at the moment.
Wool growing is complicated by the mulesing issue. With China (of all places) hosting the International Wool Textile Organisations annual congress next week mulesing, mulesing clips, spray relief and such topics will presumably be discussed. Wool is being promoted, rightly so, as the greenest and most ecologically friendly fibre in the world. Meanwhile, feedback in the Australian agricultural press is mixed, farmers grumbling at PETA and some comments applauding PETA for their intervention in mulesing.
Farmers of beef and mutton and dairy are being chastised for producing 18% of the worlds greenhouse gases, while a prominent senator has called for people to save the environment by becoming more ‘vegan’ and wants to kick-start his idea by having a ‘meat and dairy-free day’ like the Earth Hour recently held.
Fascinatingly, new grasses are being developed in a joint project between Oz and NZ which will significantly reduce burping. In a final interesting juxtaposition, an article laments the overrunning of properties by kangaroos and the fact that culling is illegal: it is noted that kangaroos are the ideal ‘meat’ for our country to produce: they suit the environment, have lean, nutritious meat and do not produce carbon emissions.
Kangaroo farming. A solution perfect in its simplicity.
Then there is all the hoo-ha in the dairy industry itself with foreign-controlled milk companies muscling in on Murray Goulburn. Be warned: soon we will be buying our milk from China as our government doesn’t see fit to help our farmers. And have I told you how foreign investors are buying up large tracts of land in the Western district to establish ‘super-dairies’, which will be foreign owned and controlled?
Well, who cares, really? S’long as we can still get milk?
Even getting milk will soon be under a cloud, with the new ‘water grab’ proposal taking water from the Murray-Goulburn basin for Melbourne and Bendigo. Farmers already have no water for their farms: this will make it impossible for them. Are we sure we are doing the right thing here?
But who even cares about that? Melbourne will have water and we can all afford to buy milk from China at $6.00 a litre produced in in-organic ways and procured by inhumane methods, right?
Don’t worry, PETA will step in if things get ugly here.
Wool growing is complicated by the mulesing issue. With China (of all places) hosting the International Wool Textile Organisations annual congress next week mulesing, mulesing clips, spray relief and such topics will presumably be discussed. Wool is being promoted, rightly so, as the greenest and most ecologically friendly fibre in the world. Meanwhile, feedback in the Australian agricultural press is mixed, farmers grumbling at PETA and some comments applauding PETA for their intervention in mulesing.
Farmers of beef and mutton and dairy are being chastised for producing 18% of the worlds greenhouse gases, while a prominent senator has called for people to save the environment by becoming more ‘vegan’ and wants to kick-start his idea by having a ‘meat and dairy-free day’ like the Earth Hour recently held.
Fascinatingly, new grasses are being developed in a joint project between Oz and NZ which will significantly reduce burping. In a final interesting juxtaposition, an article laments the overrunning of properties by kangaroos and the fact that culling is illegal: it is noted that kangaroos are the ideal ‘meat’ for our country to produce: they suit the environment, have lean, nutritious meat and do not produce carbon emissions.
Kangaroo farming. A solution perfect in its simplicity.
Then there is all the hoo-ha in the dairy industry itself with foreign-controlled milk companies muscling in on Murray Goulburn. Be warned: soon we will be buying our milk from China as our government doesn’t see fit to help our farmers. And have I told you how foreign investors are buying up large tracts of land in the Western district to establish ‘super-dairies’, which will be foreign owned and controlled?
Well, who cares, really? S’long as we can still get milk?
Even getting milk will soon be under a cloud, with the new ‘water grab’ proposal taking water from the Murray-Goulburn basin for Melbourne and Bendigo. Farmers already have no water for their farms: this will make it impossible for them. Are we sure we are doing the right thing here?
But who even cares about that? Melbourne will have water and we can all afford to buy milk from China at $6.00 a litre produced in in-organic ways and procured by inhumane methods, right?
Don’t worry, PETA will step in if things get ugly here.
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