🙃🤦😞 We're shocked to hear reports that the government may ditch plans to pay farmers to protect nature and climate – this would be a catastrophic mistake by the new Prime Minister
🧵👇 theguardian.com/environment/20…
🧵👇 theguardian.com/environment/20…
🚜4⃣🍲🌍🐝 Tackling the climate emergency and mass decline in wildlife populations is vital for our long-term food security.
To abandon plans to transform the way we support English farmers at such a crucial time would be an outrage.
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To abandon plans to transform the way we support English farmers at such a crucial time would be an outrage.
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So much progress has already been made, with years of consultation and planning, by so many.
🙄 A handbrake turn on the biggest opportunity to fix our broken farming support system in the last 50 years would betray our commitments to nature and climate
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🙄 A handbrake turn on the biggest opportunity to fix our broken farming support system in the last 50 years would betray our commitments to nature and climate
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✊💚🚜As importantly, a U-turn on these plans would also betray all those farmers who have already invested so much in tests and trials so that they may benefit from the new Environmental Land Management Schemes.
4/6 #BackBritishFarming
4/6 #BackBritishFarming
We know most farmers care deeply about the environment - it's vital that they’re rewarded to protect it.
This is especially important in the face of trade deals that threaten to undercut🇬🇧farmers with food imports ordered to lower environmental and animal welfare standards.
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This is especially important in the face of trade deals that threaten to undercut🇬🇧farmers with food imports ordered to lower environmental and animal welfare standards.
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Government must proceed with the most evidence-based solution as planned – a rapid shift to agroecological, nature-friendly farming.
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