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A trade expert in @BBCr4today just explained how UK needs to *remove* protection for animal welfare in order to compete in the global market for beef and lamb. Is that what consumers want? Is it what farmers want? All for 0.01% of GDP?
Not many farmers will want to use growth hormones, or consider the cruel practice of mulesing, so as a Welsh farmer explained on @BBCr4today they will be forced to increase stocking rates to compete. Goodbye nature recovery targets & biodiversity...?
But for many farms, intensive stocking won’t work. They will enter cycle of debt and falling incomes, eventually retiring or selling up. The farm houses will become holiday homes, the land will be bought by big agri firms & private equity. What happens next?
