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🧵 on why you should be worried about Cummings ordering MPs to betray YOU by breaking Govt's manifesto pledge to uphold or even enhance our food, #AnimalWelfare & #Environment standards —plus why MPs should listen to you and vote for the Lords Amdts to the #AgricultureBill🚜: 
Let's look at the numbers:
92% of the British Public want current farm animal welfare standards to be maintained in trade negotiations with the US and other countries.
(YouGov for #WWF, Oct 2020)
#SaveOurStandards
92% of the British Public want current farm animal welfare standards to be maintained in trade negotiations with the US and other countries.
(YouGov for #WWF, Oct 2020)
#SaveOurStandards
78% of the British Public think that our animal welfare standards are high.
So why would we want to lower them?
(YouGov 28Sep2020)
#SaveOurStandards
So why would we want to lower them?
(YouGov 28Sep2020)
#SaveOurStandards
The @ciwem webinar on nature-based solutions and the ELMs scheme has begun! I'll live-tweet key points in this thread. #agriculture #elms
First of all, we're hearing from Gareth Morgan from the @SoilAssociation who is going to try discuss whether farming itself can be a nature-based solution #britishfarming
Gareth Morgan: There are lots of land-sparing options (margins/rewilding etc) whereby some areas cease farming whilst other areas are intensified. Gareth argues that this may sometimes be a slightly 'defeatist' approach and that farming should co-evolve with nature.
