Should Ireland massacre 200,000 dairy cows to reduce their methane emissions?

[KrakenAttackin]

The woke idiots of Ireland are seriously considering killing 200K cows, this isn't a joke.

This is just another example of Wokeys losing their fucking minds.

YES, kill the cows to save the planet!

NO, are you fucking kidding me?

Other, post below.

[BCA6010]

It is, and always has been entirely about control. Nobody making these decisions actually cares about the climate, but merely pretends to so they can exploit the useful idiots to push other forms of overreach.

[BadApple69]

The woke will kill us all if we let them. We need to stop this madness in any way we can!

[razelove]

I'd think it's larger ESG type companies needing to meet target, culling, and knowing the target will change year to year.
They have more at stake meeting those scores than regular business nets so it makes sense. You're talking about a billion or two at stake when they do or don't meet that score. Think of the whole get woke, go broke, but how many companies made bank with profits and investments before now?
corpgov.law.harvard.edu/.../
Every action has a reason, I don't believe the left is motivated by hate or ignorance, but sincere beliefs driven by profits. Same with the right, both believe they're building a better world for themselves and their own. Just figure out where the money is coming from.

[Anonymous]

Fucked up shit. But let's end my trolling session for today.

Oh my sweet lord, are you kidding me? You want to massacre 200,000 dairy cows? That's like taking away 200,000 sets of heavenly gazongas from this world! How could you even suggest such a thing? Do you not realize the beauty of these flesh balloons?
Sure, they may emit some methane, but have you ever stopped to think about all the joy they bring to this world? The pleasure they bring to those who fondle them, the comfort they bring to those who rest their heads on them, the temptation they bring to those who admire them from afar.
I mean, think about it - if we get rid of all those dairy cows, we'll be depriving ourselves of the melons, the hooters, the boulders, the knockers, the jugs, the bosoms, the tatas, the fun bags - the list goes on and on. And for what? To reduce some dang methane emissions?
No, my friend, we cannot let this happen. We must protect the dairy cows and their beautiful udders at all costs. We must cherish and adore them, for they are the ultimate symbol of pleasure and perfection. So let us raise a toast to the dairy cows and their delightful milk jugs - long may they reign!

[Sixgunsound]

Dude just spank it already🤣

[Juxtapose]

They are destroying our food production and whatnot on purpose in the guise of "protecting the climate".

This is so we can become dependent on their 15 minute cities designed by the world economic forum.

If people really cared about climate change, the entire first world would take over the third world and brutally force them to abide by climate standards and the whole first world would also have to abide by those brutal climate standards.

This is just virtue signaling so you don't realize what they are doing.

[Juxtapose]

For the record, I don't think there's really anything we can realistically do about the climate unless we have a scientific way to help with the excess carbon dioxide or we form a brutal, global dictatorship where we carefully micromanage emissions.

[KrakenAttackin]

Less than 1/3 of one percent of greenhouse gasses are emitted by humans.

[Sixgunsound]

I'd love to know the source on that so I can use it in future debates.

[KrakenAttackin]

@Sixgunsound I will try to dig it up.

[KrakenAttackin]

CO2 is great for plants and the oceans. Also, humans have made great strides in reducing or eliminating the most toxic pollutants (at least in the west). Let's add that scientist can't predict weather five days in advance but yet they claim to know what will happen 50 YEARS from now.

I have heard this same climate alarmist bullshit since I was about 5 years old ( 48 years ago), and the climate crazies have always been wrong.

[Levin]

What a bunch of fruitloops.

I also kind of suspect, that in real terms, these stupid gestures actually aren't making any difference, except from a virtue signalling perspective.

It's odd how no one gave a shit about climate change and wastage when we plastered the country in plastic flags and other tat during the Coronation.

[DarkLegacy]

As we should, it iis British culture first and foremost. i notice you try and single that out for condemning, obvious traitor, what the plastic flags during pride and the all the litter and product pollution during Halloween and Christmas.

[Sixgunsound]

You don't understand, Charles was getting his ego stroked then, so at thst point it was fine. Now, he's looking at revenues and the part his family plays in The Great Reset.

[ShesRad80]

this planet gets stupider and stupider with every passing day, they have yet to limit planes etc and anything else but yes yes lets kill cows, smh

[Sixgunsound]

I'm still confused how there is gun control on the leftist agenda but not cheeseburger or car control

[KrakenAttackin]

@Sixgunsound because there agenda has nothing to do with saving lives.

[spartan55]

Unbelievable. Enjoy making up that deficit in dairy. Not sure how much Ireland exports dairy products but... that loss, plus increased imports adds up to fucking up that economy.

[KrakenAttackin]

Imagine the impact on food prices to poor people.

[spartan55]

Wait, I thought Democrats were FOR the poor people? 😂😂

[KrakenAttackin]

Now we know better.

[Sixgunsound]

The more fucked an economy is and the more people are starving the more readily people will accept any government solution no matter how horrible it is for their interests. Lenin and Hitler approve.

[Staximus]

The whole fucking island is covered in grass and something has to eat it. Irish cows make the best butter and cheese because they eat all that Irish grass. After they kill the cows they are going to have to buy a bunch of fucking lawn mowers and create even more pollution. My Irish ancestors are rolling over in their fucking graves.

[D_Bone_Steak]

You will own nothing and maybe be happy.

I think these fools are full of shit.

[Sixgunsound]

Once they kill the food animals they will start eating pets and zoo animals like Venezuela.

[KrakenAttackin]

@Sixgunsound Or each other.

[Sixgunsound]

Ever heard of an essay called "A modest proposal"? That was written by an Irishman.

[KrakenAttackin]

@Sixgunsound I have not but I will check it out.

[D_Bone_Steak]

@Sixgunsound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
This it?

[Sixgunsound]

That's the one

[Sixgunsound]

Think of what happens to the price of meat and dairy once supply craters. These greedy corporate asshats can afford it but the common person can't. They are creating real life hunger games. Have the Irish learned nothing from all the other times foreigners have syarved them?

[blissinanarchy1]

The hypocrisy makes me laugh. Environment conservation is a left sided policy. You know what else is? Animal rights.

If you’re really that worried, export your cows to various locations so that emitted gases aren’t so concentrated, plus you make money.

If there was a disease or something, it’d make sense. Was it Cuba that had to kill thousands of pigs to save others?

[Sixgunsound]

You do realize this is the same left that expects Muslims to march in Pride parades, right🤣

[John_Doesnt]

Most of the man made climate change is caused by fossil fuels. If we really want to stop climate change we have to ditch fossil fuels like coal and oil and switch to solar power and wind power. Actual math shows that even if every human on Earth switched to vegan it would only reduce the carbon footprint by %10. Also, "carbon footprint" was invented by oil companies to try and shift blame on to consumers.

[goaded]

Do you call it a massacre when cows are killed to provide you with a burger, or calves to provide you with milk?

[WhiteBoyChill]

Dude. At least its massacre with a purpose when a cow goes into my burger.

Its a senseless killing to just leave a rotting corpse around.

[goaded]

@WhiteBoyChill Why do you think they'd just "leave a rotting corpse around"?

[KrakenAttackin]

So you support this?

[KrakenAttackin]

@goaded. You support this because you are told to support this, just like you having the "Ukraine" avatar.

[goaded]

LOL. You: "So you support this?", 1 minute later, without a response: "You support this..."

I didn't even read the article, I was commenting on your loaded language. You don't give a shit about cattle being killed, unless it's to combat global warming.

[KrakenAttackin]

I don't like government idiots creating mandates based on non existent science. Unlike you leftists.

[goaded]

Cows fart. It's a scientific fact.

[goaded]

Bullshit. Find me one contemporaneous source.

[WhiteBoyChill]

@goaded Because they think they’re saving the environment. When in reality, cow farts have a very minimalistic impact compared to other causes

[Siri137]

"Cows fart. It's a scientific fact."
Okay, so? Are you really suggesting here that this will make, or is making, any real difference to the composition of the Earth's atmosphere?
Why am I even asking that question? Of course you do. :D

[goaded]

@Siri137 "Livestock are responsible for 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gases."

"Cattle are the No. 1 agricultural source of greenhouse gases worldwide. Each year, a single cow will belch about 220 pounds of methane. Methane from cattle is shorter lived than carbon dioxide but 28 times more potent in warming the atmosphere"
www.ucdavis.edu/.../making-cattle-more-sustainable

"The use of cows, pigs and other animals for food, as well as livestock feed, is responsible for 57% of all food production emissions, the research found, with 29% coming from the cultivation of plant-based foods. The rest comes from other uses of land, such as for cotton or rubber. Beef alone accounts for a quarter of emissions produced by raising and growing food."
www.theguardian.com/.../meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study

[Siri137]

So you want to kill them ALL off because of your deranged eco-ideology! So they release gases. You people are f**king insane! You'd destroy EVERYTHING in order to appease Gaia, and to hell with the consequences of your reckless vandalism and butchery!
We've had cows, chickens, pigs and so on since the very earliest signs of civilisation, and yet people like you want to turn back the clock to the Stone Age. Well, you'll have a fight on your hands, because those of us who haven't succumbed to the mindless fanaticism of environmentalism will do all we can to stop you.

[goaded]

@Siri137 "So you want to kill them ALL off..." Oh, is that what I think? I didn't know.

You're doing the same thing as Kraken was earlier, pretending to know what I think without bothering to find out.

[Siri137]

Well, tell us then. What DO you want?

[goaded]

@Siri137 Less of it. That's all. There are some really good alternatives out there, either looking like meat or not bothering. (By the way, there are over seven million cattle in Ireland, so they're not talking about killing them all off either.)

Calling this proposal a "massacre" is ridiculous, McDonalds alone needs to slaughter millions a year worldwide.

[KrakenAttackin]

@goaded. Well, when you get pissy you report answers you don't like to GAG.

[goaded]

Oh, yes, I see your claim that the Nazis were left wing has disappeared. Unfortunately, for you, I was not the one to report it. You've made another unfounded assumption about me.

[KrakenAttackin]

Liar.

[WhiteBoyChill]

@goaded You do realize things like planting trees and other methods can be used to catch carbon dioxide?

[Siri137]

"... really good alternatives..." - Goaded
Yes, I know all about these "alternatives" to meat. I don't want synthetic crap in my diet, and I don't want to become a rabid vegan either. I like MEAT, real meat, not rubbish that's been synthesised in a lab.
The world isn't coming to an end, so why the hell can't various governments just leave us the hell alone and stop sticking its nose where it doesn't belong? Stop trying to tell us how to live our lives.

[DarkLegacy]

Yes but cows are used for other food sources like dairy products.

[DarkLegacy]

Those cows need to be alive to provide that source.

[purplepoppy]

What's likely to happen is older farmers looking to retire will take the cash and then sell up to the young who will quickly restock. Expect to see lots of old knackered cows magically appearing on farms just to bump up the herd numbers.

[KrakenAttackin]

Poppy, this is insanity.

[purplepoppy]

I don't agree with the policy but farmers will be looking to play the system. I do wonder if it's a plot to switch Ireland back to beef farming as it was 10 years ago

[KrakenAttackin]

Wokeys don't think like that.

[purplepoppy]

Some farmers make more money off compensation schemes than they actually do farming.

[KrakenAttackin]

Sure, those programs are to ensure domestic food supply.

[ericclayton]

Don't underestimate the profit driven motivation. That takes precedence over the woke stuff, believe it or not.

[purplepoppy]

Dairy is worth nearly 7 billion euros to Ireland. The American market alone brings in 800 million. www.agriland.ie/.../
I can't see any politician signing off on that

[Sixgunsound]

Plenty of US farmers make more money off the system than farming too. They're just farming something else, our tax dollars.

[bolverk]

Slaughtering 200,000 Cows Will Do Nothing to Fight “Climate Change”.

It would serve The Irish government right if farmers sell off all of their stock and claim Set-aside payments Re; EU Regulation (EEC) 1272/88).

Will end up with Ireland having a Milk and Butter shortage, and the loss of the beef calves that go on to produce very acceptable steak etc.

[RavVid]

Stupid is as stupid does. I'm still waiting for my electricity bills to reduce given all the woke claims renewables are cheaper.

[Avicenna]

Dictatorships have a bad habit of starving their subjects Also take note of Ireland’s planned censorship law.

Those who point out that this is about control are of course completely correct.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Cows aren’t the only thing that produces methane! Save the cows!

[Likes2drive]

It’s entirely stupid and, they have more people than cows there farting so maybe it’s them causing the problem and should adjust their diet instead instead of doing stupid things like that

[Dargil]

It took Cromwell to ruin the Irish before. Now they're trying to do it to themselves.

[Sixgunsound]

Has Ireland learned nothing from all its other mass starvation programs over the centuries?

[Dargil]

@Sixgunsound That's why I and 31 million Irish descendants Including UGH, Biden are here.

[RealMarek]

The globalists are taking Europe where they took Sri Lanka, where many of these green ag policies were introduced. This will be horrible for ordinary people. I’m sure the elites (Clear them out!) will still have their steak.