Flood warning for Cork

[finbarrog]

Not if you are a vegetarian.

According to recent Teagasc analysis "assessing fresh food imports into Ireland and showed that: 19% of potatoes, 95% of apples, 80% of onions, 37% of carrots, 89% of tomatoes, 50% of cabbage, 90% of lettuce and 53% of soft fruit are imported, yet many of these foods can be grown in Ireland.", they also stated that there is significant potential to increase local fruit and vegetable production.

The idea the we can't grow more crops here because of the climate is belied by the fact that we have an extensive cereal sector, though much of the wheat, barley and oats grown here are used for animal feed.

Do vegetarians travel at all or just stay at home to save the planet. A 737 aircraft burns about 7500 gallons of fuel per hour and did you ever see flight radar on how many aircraft fly around the planet every day.
It’s nothing to do with the population increasing in Ireland and the need for more housing in places like Midleton which grew to fast.
It’s nothing to do with almost every household now needing multiple vehicles.
It’s all the cows fault and shame on them.

 

[How bad boy]

To be fair, while beef and dairy are generally very carbon intensive vs crops, Ireland is one of the best places in the western world for raising cattle in a lower carbon intensive way, due to the climate. 5th lowest in the EU. Raising cattle and making dairy products in Ireland and exporting them to countries where they can grow crops in a far lower carbon intensive way than Ireland is a sensible policy, so long as the transportation isn't offsetting the advantages

 

[Pablo Escobar]

Do vegetarians travel at all or just stay at home to save the planet. A 737 aircraft burns about 7500 gallons of fuel per hour and did you ever see flight radar on how many aircraft fly around the planet every day.
It’s nothing to do with the population increasing in Ireland and the need for more housing in places like Midleton which grew to fast.
It’s nothing to do with almost every household now needing multiple vehicles.
It’s all the cows fault and shame on them.

You think that a 737 burns around 25 tonnes of fuel an hour? Any idea how it carries that kind of weight around?

 

[finbarrog]

My bad 750 gallons per hour

 

[Meridian]

Cork County Council better get onto Westminster for funding if this is the case

 

[Roxetten]

To be fair, while beef and dairy are generally very carbon intensive vs crops, Ireland is one of the best places in the western world for raising cattle in a lower carbon intensive way, due to the climate. 5th lowest in the EU. Raising cattle and making dairy products in Ireland and exporting them to countries where they can grow crops in a far lower carbon intensive way than Ireland is a sensible policy, so long as the transportation isn't offsetting the advantages

We're good at growing grass to feed cattle, almost 60% of our land is used for grassland in the form of pasture, hay, silage, and rough grazing.

That's an extremely high figure by any benchmark, add to that the environmental cost of our intensive dairy sector, which has boomed since 2015, and you can see that we need some more diversity, also, too much meat and dairy consumption is bad for human health.

The agri lobbyists are in denial about the problems their sector are causing regarding both carbon emissions and the decline in water quality in this country.

Don't be fooled by Bord Bia and Teagasc greenwashing.

 

[dennisfallen]

You think that a 737 burns around 25 tonnes of fuel an hour? Any idea how it carries that kind of weight around?

Flowing robes and a large belt around the middle?

 

[Roxetten]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1714905132570185983

On point.

 

[Coach and Six]

Let's keep flying to Malaga at the drop of a hat, over to France every weekend for the rugby and New York for the Christmas shopping and show all these tree hugging mentalists and their flooding fake news that we will not be intimidated by their science and their facts.

iT's jUsT bLocKEd drAins.

 

[Stacky]

This graphic even has pretty colours to try to even help morons to understand it......................