EU Proposal on calf transportation. NO MOVE UNDER 35DAYS

teagasc are suppose to be researching the air transport, if they can do it for horses going to australia for breeding or racing im sure a 1.5 hour trip to holland with all of these idel planes can be arranged.....and air transport is not included in carbon calculations so our calves would have an extremly low carbon footprint....

have they snuck in pregnant animals cant travel if over 6 months pregnant as well in the EU directive

You're making assumptions without any foundation, I come from a farming background myself. I'll continue to post here however I like, just like the other posters. Thanks

It will be turned into another stick to beat the image of agriculture with whatever way it goes

Fing horse's for god's sake 🙄🙄🙄🙄 that is a real polluting industry with no real need to exist at all

Flying calves was a brain fart that arose during the last IFA presidential election. A candidate proposed it without any research on the feasibility or costings on it and that is even if either airports would allow it or commercial air transport companies would have any interest. It was similar with upwards only convergence.

There is a big difference between flying a horse worth 5-20 million to Australia and flying hundred of thousands of 50-60 euro calves to Holland.

Personally I can never see it happening it a red herring just like upward only convergence proved to be

Aeroplane emissions are not counted, so leave out that argument.

And if you do want to arguue fair, count in the flight emissions, but also count in the carbon the grass has extracted from the atmosphere (which is more than the cow emits)..

The climate debate is built around a farcical set of inventory figures. Flights are excluded as are carbon removals by herbage.

Consequently agriculture, and particularly bovines, have been hung out to dry.

Calculations actually show cows emitting less carbon( even as a CO2 equivalent) than they consume in their feed, a combination of grass, silage and grain, all which have taken carbon from the atmosphere, of which less than half is emitted through belching (methane) and respiration (CO2).

Respiration isn't taken into account in the inventories either..ie any respiration, from farm animals, wild animals, pets, humans...

There seems to be some sort of assumption that animals breath out an amount of carbon, which they took into their bodies as food, which originally was taken out of the atmosphere by plants..all of which is too difficult to count...so it is ignored..

And subsequently Cows are getting ridden bareback in the discussions..

I agree with you. Yes the supermarkets are really bothered by animal welfare......as in its consumer driven optics ......... farmers welfare not soooo much and that's also consumer driven.

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Now I think you may have caught on to something.......but can I ask which Bunch of farmers are to be culled. I'm not in favour of the slightly older dairy farmers 🤣😂👍🤠