UK beef farmers are under attack; here's my response to C4's The Big British Beef Battle programme
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- British (and Irish) beef farmers should be celebrated in this country; the UK enjoys almost perfect growing conditions for raising grass-fed beef yet the UK media constantly blame farmers for climate change.
In this video I explain why this is and why the recent Channel 4 documentary titled The Big British Beef Battle got it so spectacularly wrong.
I farm grassfed beef in Australia and I entirely endorse your views. Furthermore, why do these misguided people go after farmers who are feeding the human race, instead of, say, the tourism industry (flights, cruise ships etc.) which is a massive fossil fuel user and does not contribute anything to the further continuation of the human race? Makes no sense!
Of course it makes sense, As Henry Kissinger said control the food control the people.
You are the CO2 they want rid of, the Georgia Guidestones werent just whistling Dixie
because youre an easy target that fits their agenda, and more over dont advertise on their platform...
All tyrants go for the farmers first. Control the food, control the populace.
useless land becomes cheaper, someone is going to buy it all up and make big bucks later on.
My theory is they're acting in the interests of big business or big money.
Well done Harry. Here in Ireland we have livestock, poultry, dairy, grain and green grass for thousands of years. That's how we survived and we're still here. It's what we're good at.It's one of our few natural resources and we do it very well. It's the middle men and greed producing cheap processed foods .There are a lot of industries involved all making money from food. The farmers of good food are getting very little from it. It's great to have a few cows and bullocks, sheep, chickens running around the yard and a pig in the barrel. Nothing wrong with veg,a few spuds and some meat grown here on the best land and climate in the world naturally .This part of the world is suitable for these industries. We should be supported and applauded for doing so. That's my rant. Thank you. 😅🇮🇪
Come from generations of farming in Scotland and heart sick of the intentional misleading information about how terrible UK and Irish farming supposidly is 🤦🙄
Thank you so much for making this video 🤗🤗
History records the pernicious behaviour of civilisations in collapse - totalitarianism, gender neutrality, death of monetary systems, uncontrolled immigration, restriction and calculated destruction of the food supply amongst others - We are witnessing the controlled collapse of modern civilisation.
Totally agree! We’ve got to save our British farms and farmers from this misinformation. Unfortunately it suits those in power for us to not gaze at their more polluting (and less valued contribution to society) ways.
So sad that the basics of UK farming have to be explained to the "Stupid Brigade".
Trouble is none of them listen.
@@GPSOMG-Because it doesnt fit thier narative. Never as deaf as those that want to be.
Harry is right and he has worthy goals.
But your aggressive and confrontational attitude is not helpful.
Think about what you are trying to achieve.
@@stevenkelby2169 Bollox :=)
Its not about facts though, is it. And it hasn't been for a very, very long time. Its about imposing an agenda and destroying our old ways of life.
Great video Harry. If I were a UK farmer, I’d make an official complaint to Ofcom about moronic and inaccurate reporting from a stated owned Channel4. Asked to get them fined and to broadcast an apology for falsely reporting the facts
no chance, Channel 4 are as woke and progressive as they come, their documentaries reflect their biases, it is all climate change, immigration, gender pay gap etc
they are using tax payer money to push their own agenda but also Ofcom are just the same, infected with wokeness so no point in complaining
Mainstream news would be 50% news 50% apologies if they apologised for all their lies.
So interesting. Thank you.
Well done you.
Well done, Harry. I'm an environmentalist (BSC Human Ecology) and I'm happy with everything you have said. Ruminants are an important component for keeping our ecological carbon sequestration cycle working properly. I'm a great believer in having the availability of quality meat proteins for all. Feed-lot meat is not that. We do need to do something about the hedges in this country though. Such an important form of ecological carbon sequestration as well as for biodiversity. Only just found your channel, so maybe you have covered the hedgerow issue. But that can't be stressed enough. The current paradigm shift in British Agriculture goes both ways.
100% support for the British farmers. You are keeping us healthy by giving us an alternative to hyper-processed "food". We must protect British countryside and British farmers if we want to protect future generations!
Cows are NOT ‘food’ they’re living beings that deserve life in EXACTLY the same way Tom, the dog I care for has
I’ve cared for cows, pigs, hedgehogs, horses, cats and many other animals, many of whom are viewed as nothing more than an object
It’s absolutely disgusting especially if you live in an area where this literally doesn’t need to happen due to having access to actual foods
Also, protecting the British countryside… by supporting farmers… is this a joke? 70% of UK land is literally farm land that’s actually unnecessary and of which has destroyed natural habitats
If you’re sincere about that you would soon change your views to supporting British natural habitats and wildlife, not those that have taken that away all to kill animals and many of them…
@@user-dm2nx4yu5o OK, cows are not food, agriculture is redundant. And shelves in the supermarkets are stocked by fairies who create food from pixie dust. ...and then you wake up.
@@user-dm2nx4yu5o provide an economically literate take that doesn't cause people to become poorer and living standards to drop. Your emotional take is useless.
We must protect our beef farmers but the farmers have taken billions in climate change funding and grants…They are one of the first industries to be seduced by the climate change/environment gravy train.
And don’t the cattle look amazing and very well fed. Contented cattle are such a contrast to grain fed machines (I mean cattle).
I’m now looking at purchasing direct from a farm even though I need to drive 400 klms each way…I’m in regional Australia.
Hi Harry, Great video. I am an ecologist based in Ireland. You hit the nail on the head. If the beef and dairy industry goes in Ireland, it would destroy rural communities across the country. Unfortunately the extreme environmentalists don't live in the real world and certainly the politicians at international level haven't a clue either. How can the EU expect Irish or British farmers to accept the importation of Brazilian beef where the environmental standards are so low. Its not a level playing at all. If Irish tillage, dairy and beef farmers called it quits in the morning its not going to do one thing to stop climate change.
Its worldwide, WEF NWO, you are the Carbon they want to eliminate
I was on a 10,000 acre beef farm today in St George, Australia. What I saw was a small family show nothing but care to their livestock and a commitment to pasture improvement and vegetation management.. These farmers are not the enemy of climate change, they are actually in fact a part of the solution.
...."....solution....".....!!!! .......LOL .....said some guy who has nothing else than blunt ignorance to come up with ....on the matter of climate and what harms the balance.....
@@Dan-fo9dk What does harm the balance then?
@@Dan-fo9dk stay mad lil bro
Haha ....it's hard to believe..... Dude you must really live under a rock if you haven't heard about that emission of CO2 and even more so methane harms the delicate balance in the atmosphere. Concentrations of those gases are alarmingly and record high. Never before in history of mankind has such concentrations been present. We don't need such video's like the above spreading ignorance and misinformation. We can NOT go one like before ....as if nothing is happening. We have already seen a warming of the Arctic with 6 degrees. We're observing that this is triggering an exponential effect by that permafrost is melting and release methane. ...yeah...I'm a scientist on these things. It's about time that it hits you that we are standing on the brink of a climate catastrophe.... Nature will hit hard I can tell you.....the rest you will have to experience yourself.....
I would love to hear Channel 4's response to this illustration of the problems with the way in which they used the data in their show.
Great video !! Simple explanations, and no hyperbole. Nice to get away from sensational journalism and relate it to British farming.
Great job Harry, as an Irish Dairy/Beef farmer I'm delighted to see you highlighting the facts and showing up the rhetoric for what it is.
Exactly , Eamonn Ryan and co ( The Green Fascists' ) wanting to reduce the national herd because of their crazy ideology ( no doubt backed behind the scenes by some other crazies ) . Also , worth noting , this is not a directive from the EU !! Its just Eamonn + the other " cabbage heads " going off on their own little crusade !! 🙄🤬
Keep up the good work yourself, many thanks, love your products, nothing better than grass fed beef and delicious butter on my bread.
PLEASE do not stop producing beef. Get the IFA to fight back. I do not want Brazilian beef. I always buy Irish beef.
As someone who grew up on a mixed farm in Ireland, a country even more suitable to grass growing, I completely concur. Excellent presentation as usual Harry. Thank you for doing this.
Ireland is only ‘suitable’ for grass growing because of the huge amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium we spray all over it. Plus we drain the landscape of water too. Ireland has no ‘natural’ advantage in gras growing.
Thanks for the rant Harry! You’re doing your best with what you have to work with. You should be in charge of UK Agriculture!
My family is from Puglia, Italy. If you don’t grow it, you don’t eat. Olives, grapes, rapini, tomatoes, nuts and wheat. I would move back just for the bread and cheese! Semolina bread and semi picante fresh cheese. The bread lasts a week and the cheese is so fresh it’s still soft!
Have a great year! 😊🥖🧀🍷
I'm a beef farmer in Ireland. Support for your CZcams channel Harry 👍👍👍.
It’s really a pity this is not put on mainstream television and media outlets, although it probably wouldn’t be liked because it doesn’t fit in with their agenda. Thanks for another very interesting and informative video Harry.
Well said. I'd bet a pound to a shilling that Harry did more research in producing this video than Channel 4 did in producing BBBB.
.......the only reason to put this on TV....would be to show how someone twist facts ....and really don't know what they are talking about. It's a complete failed logic .....or at best blunt ignorance shown.
@@michaelgurd7477 Bill gates funds like 75% of our main media, he would cut their funding if they don't push this Great Reset agenda basically.
I gave up watching the BBC etc due to their lies and propaganda during the whole convid thing.
Happily, fewer and fewer people are watching TV these days, reducing the opportunities for the the masses to be propagandised.
The offshore investors would cut funding an politicians would flip
You didn't only explain how it really works in your country, Harry, but you also showed how untrue the figures can be in the media. I get really sad when I read about the farmers in Belgium, many of them are on the verge of losing their farms because of these same figures. I think we urgently need some Harry's in Belgium.
At least countries with a proportional voting system can express public concerns through the ballot box. Think that includes Belgium and definitely Holland.
Yesterday I watched David Attenborough make out that locust populations have skyrocketed and are destroying habitat and it's all our fault due to climate change. Looked it up and actually locust swarms have always been a problem throughout human history but they suddenly declined in the 70s due to human insecticides and techniques and haven't risen since. I suspect he too has cherry picked statistics from say, one African country over the last 5 years. If it's such a problem why do they have to be so dishonest?
We need to push back on this!
Maybe stop buying the super powered tractors and using them for road haulage instead of artic.
Or forgo the extra Range Rover for the wife.
So what happens to all that cash from multiple wind turbines on one farm. ?
@@janschkeuditz6065 I don't see any connection between what you are saying and the topic of discussion. Maybe a mis post?
It’s shocking how the masses are misled and misinformed about the food industry especially in a country like the UK.
Thank you Harry and thanks to everyone involved in farming.
It's not shocking. The masses never actually engage their brains. They never have.
@@fredmercury1314 True to many don’t care about what they are eating,let alone where it comes from.
Fortunately I have never ate fast food or processed,and 2003 when doing some research about vaxes,I found out about the food fluoride in the water,and many other nasty things I did try warning as many people as possible.
@@Ellenad369 A zero filter jug is the simplest way to fix your water.
@@bbybeatboxx Thank you for your reply,and yes I have been using the Zero Water products for over a year now,they are definitely the best.♥️👍
Hiya bud my brother sent me this video and I couldn't agree more with you with what you have just explained well done sir for trying to highlight these points 👏👏👏👏
This message needs to be out in the mainstream. As a YDNP volunteer we had a talk from a local farmer at Malham, who has increased his Belted Galloway herd, reduced the sheep, he is more profitable, produces less co2, spends less time farming and there is an environmental Wildlife benefit to the land as the grazing habits are different. But no researcher would tell you that.
Im sorry to say that most of these TV researchers would have a heart attack if they know how the real world worked, and I defy them to prove me wrong
The average person is only interested in the price of food, cheap as possible. I buy organic , this is to encourage less use of chemicals for the environment as well as my own health
@@vincegibson4721 Agreed, however the TV researchers likely know more than the Gov.t people that make the decisions.
Produces less CO2 is irrelevant mumbo jumbo.
Maybe they need this land to build more houses. Sneaky
Harry, you are the archetypal gent. Wisdom and intellect, without an ugly ego or agenda. This is a brilliantly informative video. Thanks very much for all that you do.
My heartfelt thanks for voicing common sense and looking after our land 💕🌿
Looking after?! Wtf?
yeah >50% of UK land now just grassy field for grazing - definitely looking after it. These dinosaurs need to move over and let innovation take over. Take away their giant subsidies totalling billions per year and invest that in modern high tech farming, instead of their 3rd range rover
@@bengilkes7676Try using your words to form a rational argument. Preferably using Harry’s video as a springboard 🙄
I appreciate your informative breakdown and you have my sympathy dealing with the cultists. Want to know where this ends? Look to Netherlands, France and Germany
Just found Harry's website and so pleased l have . Have lived and worked on dairy / beef farms in Dorset and this is an excellent representation They were pushing poultry consumption in the programme but completely overlooked the welfare issues in intensive chicken units No mention of ethically sourced birds etc Surprised they didn't serve up a medley of fried insects Bill Gaits style . Merry Christmas one and all 🎄⛄💫🥂and a Huge Huge Thank You to all our food producers/ farming workforce ♥️
One of most *enjoyable and interesting* channels ever.
Issue in the River Wye with the concentration of intensively reared chickens and all their pooooooooo. Not a mention.
chickens want tolive ib trees, the welfare thing is nonsense anyway and doesnt go far enoughg at all
I once sat in a hotel bar in South Wales and overheard a conversation about a new intensive Chicken production facility. The folks discussing it were the contractor and client, it was being built circa 10 miles away. Put me right off chicken, no ethics whatsoever, profit profit profit, no other topic discussed. Every credit to Harry and other farmers looking at the big picture and above all livestock welfare.
@@and4263 still hypocritical,they are still trying to profit from murdering animals jeez
What a brilliant video Harry. You explained the British beef industry clearly and articulately, far better than most of our 'representatives'.
The whole industry needs to use this and develop a clear message, based on science and use it to counter the nonsense we saw on the Ch 4 programme.
Notice how he hasn't said how and what he feeds his cows in late Autumn, Winter and into Spring when the fields are unusable and grass doesn't grow.
@@lksf9820dried grass mate, it's not hard
@@SemenukTlovingprog Who are you, some self appointed spokesperson know-nothing?
@@lksf9820 yes
non expert here, literally spent 15 mins searching reading up, it’s mainly forage-based silage/ haylage and some wholecrop, maize and straw.
Example winter diet for a mid pregnant 500kg heifer is 15kg silage, 3kg straw, 5kg wholecrop and perhaps rapemeal at around 0.3kg 😊
Dear Harry, what a superb video, thank you for clarifying the facts of livestock farming in the UK! We owe you and all the UK farmers a gratitude of debt. You really are what makes living in the UK great.
😂 o lord 🙈
Another point is that if you stopped grazing cattle on your farm, it's not like it would sit fallow for eternity thereafter. Eventually the use case for the land would have to change, and something else would be built there. I don't know your area enough to say whether that would be chicken coops or condos, but I can't imagine it would be as idyllic and sustainable as what's there now. Keep up the great work.
Well said Harry. Things in Ireland are getting just as bad. Lot's of false or misleading information going around. It's a tough industry to stay in. High input costs, low income, and now increasing anti-beef public sentiment. Former suckler now dry stock beef farmer from Ireland, 28.
Did you hear Aodhán Ó Ríordán on the radio the other day saying if we don't change what we eat well be under water in the next 30 years 🙄. Correct me if I'm wrong but is it 40000 cattle per year over the next 5 years the Irish government want to slaughter to be able to reach their climate commitment?
Although Harry just said there are no input costs and the animals just run around making beef.
@@malcolm8564 I think he was saying minimal input of carbon. Not minimal input of any costs.
Agriculture is the largest producer of carbon emissions in Ireland, almost 40% of the country's total emissions. 90% of that produce is exported as premium product. There is no reason for the state to subsidise it.
@@davilip And 80% of statistics are made up on the spot. The other 30% are just not saying what they are portrayed as saying.
This is similar to what happened in The Netherlands, they (media, government, stakeholders) just plain lied to push through extreme net zero requirements and used laws reserved for extreme circumstances to compulsory purchase farms and close them down under the guise of them creating too much C02 and nitrogen.
Luckily the farmers fought back, started their own political party and won the last election and afaik, promptly reversed the decisions made.
This program is part of the same movement, someone doesn’t just decide to make these shows, they’re suggested.
The WEF are at war with us
Exactly, it's an agenda.
I object to your comment. There is a serious issue with excess nitrogen and the effect it has on the environment. Harry is asking for specific judgements to be made on farming in different environments. Some cultures of farming in the right landscape can be more environmentally appropriate than others. Fair point.
You are muddling these distinctions back up again to a general international 'us vs them' debate which from his introduction 00:42 is what Harry is trying to get AWAY from!
Harry is saying something more precise.
I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you if you think the Dutch farmers are raising cattle like Harry here.
@@artgreen6915the atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. Allowing excess nitrogen fertilizer application may not be the issue but using fuel like natural gas to produce nitrogen fertilizer. Ya it comes from the air. Phosphate is another matter
We have beef twice a week and Lamb and Pork once a week. All our families are big, strong, intelligent, healthy individuals. Hands off our wonderful farmers and their livestock.
I really do feel for you Harry and all farmers in the UK and Ireland. Politicians and green lobbies seem to not have a brain cell between the lot of them.
They don't think we need farming because after all we get all our food from the supermarket.
They don't, the green mob is a cult. And they will collapse the western world if they get their way.
I’m a Brit overseas, watching this from the outside looking in, the best thing the UK government could do is have people like Harry give them all the advice they will listen to.
Reasoned, informed and well balanced opinions are becoming such a rarity.
It’s nothing to do with quality of advice. It’s about the self appointed elites, who intend us to starve.
Sure, and we'll have none of the natural habitat left only grass and farmlands
The UK fires any reasonable person who knows what they are talking about, and instead listens to whoever has the deepest pockets (i.e. large multinational food companies).
Eat Bugs!!!
@@MrDziuka So in your opinion - If the UK gov did listen to farmers such as Harry, everyone and their dog will suddenly take up cattle farming? What are you on about? Honestly, The dude in the video has lovely fields, Nice trees and a beautiful stream. Also seen some lovely hedgerows.
"and we'll have none of the natural habitat left" Have you ever been for a walk/hike? I'm off to the lake district tomorrow - Would you like some photos of our "complete lack of natural habitats"?
I also live in a major town (South east), Yet I can drive 20minutes north/west direction and find lovely natural fields/woodlands that are vast. I can walk 10-20minutes in the other directions and find myself walking for hours before I get back home.
This is what CZcams is for. Informed opinion debunking lazy mainstream journalism.
The good news is that young people who are forming their opinions about the world will watch CZcams documentaries like this rather than big budget scheduled TV every day of the week.
Well done Harry.
they will and do.
"Commi-Tube" deletes most truthful comments
If TV programs had a thumbs up or down button, I think the ratings would show a different story, just because a viewer tuned into a program does not mean they liked or agreed with it.
Statistics can be used in all sorts of ways, mostly only to favor the type of program being made.
I have to say that 99% of YT is a pile of low-brow, biased, non-researched, appallingly presented, badly made, untrue, dangerous content that is influencing tens of millions of young people. There some notable exceptions of course, Harry's channel being one of them.
I hope Clarkson gets on this also...This silly carbon agenda has come direct from Technoratis at Davos lobbied to the media pure money grabbing...they tried in the Netherlands but they fought back thank God.
So well explained...I just can't understand how people don't see this😞
Aw I vegan I found your environmental case for your type of sustainable farming extremely compelling. Thanks for sharing your knowledge in such a patient and thorough manner.
Balanced view. :)
Excellent explanation for us non-farming types. I despair at the media/government/those accountable who have an agenda and no intention of airing facts. Harry, your country needs you. Keep up the good work.
Absolutely, we can easily do with more CO2, not less, just like the times when the earth was covered in more plant life.
To the Yt staff and 77th brigade - think of your children and grandchildren before removing my comments. When they ask why you contributed to their totalitarian life in return for money, what will you tell them?
This is misinformation unfortunately.
Its wokism feed
Well done Harry.
Incidentally, even the Guardian gave Channel 4 a 1 star review for this programme
I give a 1 star review to that review. It was so badly written, I'm not even sure what the author's problem was with the programme. But I suppose it does show how abysmal the programme was that the critic couldn't find anything to praise.
Even the Guardian!!😅 Are you suggesting that they are more factual than the other comic rags 😂
@@annapachaclarke2392 He means they are more likely to give glowing reviews to anything that supports the climate narrative, so if they gave a bad review to a programme like this, it must have been very poor.
@@eduardosuarez2414 exactly
A superb presentation Harry, getting that message out to our primarily urban, office working population is so, so important, please keep it up
Thankyou for that perfect explanation, delivery and great work needed more than ever.
The beef farmers in uk and Ireland are incredibly efficient at what they do. Animal welfare is a big deal and highly regulated by both Great Britain and European governments.
Likewise with the rest of the chain to market, modern British abattoirs are sensibly sized, efficient and don't waste anything.
The soil quality in the Irish Republic is poor, and the farmers have greedily saturated the ground in nitrates to improve it. In the process they have polluted the watercourses across the country. It's an environmental disaster zone. Fishless rivers, humans drinking bottled water and all the rest.
@@stephenbest4924 any chance you could provide a source to this claim?
Animal welfare? How does the poor ow feels when they sense gonna be slaughtered? Do with all imprisoned animals and slaughter houses , just the name makes me cringe
@@weeeeehhhhhSearch water quality and agriculture in Ireland. The nitrate levels are generally ok for drinking but 44% of tested sites are above the levels required for healthy river ecosystems. Especially in the east and south of the country our rivers no longer support any substantial levels of aquatic life unfortunately.
We need agriculture, but it just needs to be less intensively damaging to the environment. Programmes such as limiting runoff, and purchasing farms or requiring subsidised woodland restoration along protected waterways to avoid direct runoff, would help to alleviate these issues. Farmers should understand their impact and work with local authorities, if you talk to anyone from older generations they will tell you how degraded the rivers have become in just a couple generations.
I grew up on a small holding in Ireland during the 70/80s. Traditionally in Ireland the farmers kept Hereford, Aberdeen Angus, dexter, Irish moiled etc. These were mostly small animals ideally suited to the Irish climate ( read rain) and soil. When Ireland joined the EEC (1973) there was a big governmental campaign to produce beef suitable for the European market. Farmers were told that the beef from our small animals was not to the liking of the Europeans who liked a certain type of “ marbeling” in the meat. So the farmers did what farmers do , they changed the heard to continental cattle breeds in order to supply the market. The whole push was for large beef breeds that matured quickly. Small farms that would have traditionally also had some acerage set aside for the growing of crops were now only devoted to the production of cheep beef. Grants were paid for land drainage and the development of poor land. All to produce more beef and dairy products. We are where we are now because the farmers did what the were ASKED to do.
"I am from the government, and I'm here to help." The single most terrifying thing you can hear.
I don’t see Ireland demanding to leave the EU.
The Globalist control must be stopped.
Yeah, most of us in the UK are over the moon about leaving the EU
The EU is the world's largest protection racket.
Very good video. Thanks for adding some much-needed nuance to the unjust demonisation of beef!
Fantastic video. You may have forgotten to mention that grass takes up a fantastic amount of CO2 whilst it grows. So your cows are essentially Carbon neutral.
Thanks for sharing this Harry, People need to wise up about how great UK farmers are.
Leave our beef alone!!
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Yes and more importantly stop that globalistic mad ideologies covered by ecology, rights of the minorities, necessary vaccines and stuff.
Agree
And irish as well. We're badly badly represented
That was special in so many ways.
Analytical, specific to our country, clearly explained without rage although I could sense the repressed fury at the biased reporting.
It's always a more powerful message when expressed with passion and personal knowledge.
Well done 👍
Well said! A lot of these studies are on grain fed cattle and the methane they produce. Not about the rest of their diet. Fun fact, grasslands are better carbon holders than trees (as it is stored in the roots) and with the grasses little is given above the soil. As much as I dop like C4's approach to impartiality, they dropped the bull's balls on this one. It's a load of bullocks.
They aren't documentary makers or researchers, they are media activists, there's more to this than meets the eye, you have just beat them at what they are supposedly employed to do & made a short doc with fact checked research, well done Harry
Harry I wish you could put this video on mainstream t.v. as a sensible reply to that programme, I’m sure it’s something that the general public could understand and appreciate. Well done and thank you on behalf of all the down to earth genuine beef producers here in the u.k. and Ireland.
This program should be broadcast on the BBC : it is easier to produce a program prepared by right-thinking NGOs than to really think about the subject you want to present. Thank you Harry for these brilliant and useful explanations. I suppose they are also valid to some extents for France where I live.
The BBC is a complete waste of time. This program is far too superior.
@@ElsieM365 Well I don't watch BBC anymore, gone are the days when I watched Newsnight most nights, but unfortunately its not a complete waste of time. its a propaganda organisation paid for by a captive public.
Channel 4 is owned by the BBC. Hence it's a bs program. Anything BBC is complete lies .
Cant see the BBC broadcasting this sadly, too contrary to the BBC leftie agenda
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” (Upton Sinclair)
I’m a grass fed producer in NE Victoria, Australia which has a similar topography to northern parts of the UK. We too take great care in terms of density of grazing, no chemical usage and providing a great life for our Angus herd. The world desperately needs protein and it can be produced in a sensible and sustainable form which is rarely understood unfortunately by people who become instant experts in everything. They should come and talk with Farmers for Climate Action as there are 8000 of us who are looking to build a sustainability future. Hats off to you Harry
Thank you so much Harry for doing this. I'm not a farmer I have zero links to farming. I'm just a truck driver from an urban city. Even I can see the claims that the UK needs to stop farming to save the planet is utterly ludicrous. Please anybody who watches this get it shared around everywhere you can , this madness of attacking farmers has to stop.
Grass fed British beef ( from a butcher ) is one of the healthiest foods in the world, that you can eat.
Very similar processes exist in Ireland, France, Spain. The same standards.
Much healthier than Norwegian farmed salmon, which celebrities like.
Support your local butcher. He is providing you with the best. He eats it himself and feeds it to his own family.
I am not a farmer though I have many relatives who are in agriculture, some with advanced degrees in agriculture. All of them work closely with their local university extension service (here in the US). When I heard that the WEF, Bill Gates and other 'greens' wanted to end farming "as we know it," and want us to get our protien from bugs, I knew it had all gone to far. Thank you for being reasonable and speaking truth.
Same thing has been going on against NZ farmers. Going so far as to be taxed for livestock bodily gas output. It's embarassing and aggravating. The vast majority of our beef farms aren't industrial, as they are assumed by activists and the soil quality here is largely unsuitable for widespread horticulture. I'm glad you made this video. I hope more people watch it.
Wtf is going on? Could someone explain what's the point of do8ng it?
I expect that of the grass was allowed to rot/decompose naturally it would produce the same methane as if it went through a cows rumen.
@@artemartem842 Misdirection, blame cow farts and get people focused on that instead of actually doing anything about fossil fuels. Lobbying and misinformation campaigns by those who're invested in fossil fuels (aka most large corporations)
I don’t normally comment on CZcams and am not involved in the farming world but love to follow it. Totally agree with Harry and so pleased you made this video. I vote for this clip being included in next week’s Countryfile!
The bbc won't put out anything that goes against the WEF agenda.
That'll never happen, they 're all about pushing 'the Agenda', esp BBC! Stopped watching MSM a while ago, it's become just a propaganda outlet!
When did Townfile start covering actual farming again?
Well said Harry.
We need more like yourself to spread the truth about British farming. I’m fed up with all the nonsense and exaggerated news forced down our throats by the media.
Love this channel as much as the garage, I find it really interesting finding out about the problems British farmers face especially nowadays.
How much methane would a field of gras produce when not grazed by cattle?
@@Conservator.More to the point why does olive oil emit so much CO2?
Excellent explanation Harry, thank you. Yet another example of the media telling some of the facts but not all of the truth. A common and deceitful practice.
@@grahamwhite75a Probably not what you would want to learn but methane is a 4x as much harmful greenhouse gas than CO2 and Olive oil doesn’t emit CO2 unless it’s oxidised.
@@josoap8781 It is now par for the course of BBC C4 ITV etc, they love lieing and exaggerating everything to do with 'climate change', in particular.
As one who cares deeply about the climate, I found this a refreshing take and informative. We need more informed debate on this issue.
Unfortunately, here in America, the problem is only getting worse. Feed lot numbers are on the rise. Grass feeding is becoming more prominent, but only so they can charge us more. $3.99 for feed lot beef, 9.99 for grass feed! The number of small private family farms is decreasing, and giant agro businesses farms is on the increase. I studied Animal Science and Agriculture at the university of Kentucky (UK). I agree with everything you said. Unfortunately, I seem to be in the minority.
Well said! Thank you for explaining what all British farmers know and are struggling to convey.. it's very frustrating for us all .
Well said Harry Metcalfe!! Long time viewer, first time texter here. Obviously a subject very close to your heart and we could all hear the emotion bubble up when you mention being a custodian of the land and passing the batton over to the next generation. Very very emotive and absolutely on point! Such an important subject needs clear, concise and scientific debate to keep the policy makers/public on the right track and not swayed with mass hysteria caused by very poor journalism, as we saw on CH4. Keep up the good work Harry !!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻👌
Thank you for your in depth analysis of this perplexing problem.
Amazing video and so skillfully presented! Thank you for the insight
Wow this was great! I've been a long time watcher of Harry's Garage and reader of EVO. But overtime I have kept hearing that beef is the worst food/meat to eat due to the amount of rainforest cut down to clear land to grow soy feed for cattle. And have almost become vegetarian / vegan because I've thought it was the right thing to do for our planet.
This fascinating and eye opening! More people need to see this. And keep going British Farmers!
So then you have to ask yourself why has it been shoved down my throat that cows are bad? Why are they (western governments) imposing so many restrictions on to farmers screaming climate change, when they know the science they are spouting is bullsh!t?
They want the farmers to quit and sell their land. With the eventuality of government and large private corps. owning all the land. Then they control the food. If you control the food, you control the people.
Harry this is far from a rant, you calmly told us the information and thank you for that. Now all we need to do is get the word out there.
Well done Harry , its good to see you explaining and standing up for British farming .
I wish this message was taken up by the mainstream media. Keep up the great work Harry!
Please keep bringing out the message, I will support all the way. Stay strong farmers!
Great overview Harry. Unfortunately our farming organisations (in ireland anyway), don't have the communications ability to have this argument with the green/farmer bashing side. We need more communications like this to educate the masses. Hoping Clarkson does a segment on it, that will reach a greater audience in a way that they will understand. In Ireland the cattle population is roughly the same as it was in 1972, less sucklers and more dairy.
James
I feel sorry for the generations to come, when they realise how wrong the current governments are.
Governments and mainstream media is no longer in service of the people, they have a different agenda.
If they ever grow a pair, they'll be very angry and rightly so.
The Government takes it's orders from Billderberg NGO's and their aim is to end private ownership of land and propertyl
@@DM-ur8vc I don't think anyone's saying there not... But nowadays information is way more public...
It's not just Goverment it's mindless ideology - some of which like JSO - attempts to drive the Adminstration .Blaming the Government all the time is misguided.
Harry.
Thank you for producing this wonderful video.
What a great piece of research and analysis, presented with passion, in a clear, concise and objective manner.
I watch Harry's Farm and Harry's Garage, your farm is beautiful and you have a fantastic collection of car's.
Great Channels, thank you
Thanks Harry for putting out this video,from a Co.Kildare,Ireland beef and sheep farmer.👏🤝
As usual, the media telling some of the facts but not all of the truth to suit their agenda. Excellent stuff Harry.
Thanks Harry for explaining clearly for people to understand, I wish this video could be on TV so that the mainstream audience can view it.
Good balanced piece; thanks for posting. I work in conservation as a volunteer here in the UK, and also in farmland management. I am constantly dismayed at the cock-eyed beliefs of some of those (admittedly well meaning) conservationists who believe any old bollocks pushed out by lazy mainstream media 'churnalists'. One glaring omission in the 'beef is bad' debate, is its link to dairy production. If we are to continue consuming milk, cream, cheese, yoghurt, kefir etc., then we need cows to have calves. Half of all calves born are bull calves, so if we are to continue with dairy but cut back on beef, then presumably we must consider euthanasing the surplus animals? This attack on beef farming has to stop, so I give you full support in your efforts to push back on this. It's a pity the NFU here in the UK aren't doing the same.
I stand with our amazing farmers and their families
Harry you are a magician, you have clearly and properly described what we are doing as an industry in a way that most people will understand! Far better than any NFU response. All i can say is thank you.
Thanks for putting things in perspective Harry, for those people who just don't get it. I hope they all watch this and get educated. My British beef Sunday roast was delicious and I don't feel at all guilty saying that. I'm proud to support our farmers!
A very well presented and factual summary of the process.
An INCONVENIENT TRUTH exposing the reality.
Hi Harry, excellent video. We have similar issues here in New Zealand which relies heavily on the rural sector for exports. Farmer basing by ignorant urbanites is becoming a major problem whilst other industries get away with more serious environmental issues
I don't get why NZ exports all the good stuff and feeds crap to the locals
Having lived there one year the NZ cheese is not good when it seems it should be cheap and tasty but it was the exact opposite
No Rob most of the debates here are about water quality downstream of farms due to overstocking of dairy heards on any available piece of flat land and the intense irrigation that requires, often to the detriment of our aquifers and rivers.
Harry's 40 beef cows frollicking on a valley are not what our environmental regulations are aimed at
@@lastguy8613Did you notice Harry mentioned the cattle have access to the brook at the bottom of the field for drinking water , that is illegal in NZ on the same class of land. NZ's water quality is very high by international standards.
I'm non farming but take a
an interest and respect what you do.
You have presented a clear explanation which should be broadcast to the general public , but which of the media would take it on. Good luck with your battle to save our land for future generations. Thank you
Honestly, mind boggling that it’s even an issue in this country, and that people seem to have forgotten the gas cycle we learn in gcse biology! (Usually the nitrogen cycle, but I recall methane and CO2 in the diagrams too!)
Great video
Baffling isn't it.
my parents were beef farmers (hereford), the land isnt suitable for crops, they get the wrong type of weather, but grass grows very well and has done since the romans were there. the animals were grass fed most of the time, inside over winter for about 4-5months depending on the weather where they were fed silage and a bit of extra corn. but largely the polar opposite to the intensive beef farming that so much of the figures are based on (particularly in the US).
the difference environmentally from low intensity grass fed beef and high intensity corn fed beef is wildly different and its never considered. there are even seaweed based supplements you can give grass fed cattle which massively reduces their methane output and makes their existence far more sustainable. but it isnt fashionable to say so.
I don't think Harry will be invited to appear on BBC Cuntryfile anytime soon.
You have to toe the line and fit the agenda before you’re allowed on. Stray from that and you’re cut off!
Lucky Harry. BBC Countryfile sold out years ago. Now a " lifestyle" show.
Great informative video Harry.
Fellow beef farmer.
Praying for farmers. God bless you. 🙏❤️
Well said that man.
After 2008 crash, Irish gov. encouraged framers to develop the beef industry, which they did. Now the gov. wants them to stop beef farming. It is bloody ridiculous making farmers in these islands responsible for what is happening in south America. Farmers shoukd tell the gov. to get stuffed.
Thanks Harry, brilliant as usual.
The times I have had to point out to people that the beautiful British countryside only looks like it does because of the care and passion of the farmers who tend to it.
If it was left to government the countryside would become acres of housing estate's, large corporate warehouses or other industrial facilities.
Well done for explaining the differences between U.K. and U.S. or Brazil etc production methods for beef. I am with you in that the media need to research things more thoroughly and present a properly balanced view and not the "we are all going to die if we eat beef" view. This needs to be seen by as many people as possible including the people banning beef from school menus etc. Keep up the good work on keeping us informed about the Farming Industry in the U.K.
Well done for not pushing a camera in her face. Good job and done with humility.
This is a very good video and raises points I never even thought about.
It explains why in the Netherlands they went after the farmers on nitrogen, because the farmers had been focused on reducing CO2 emissions for some time.
As always Harry, you explain things so well. The voice of common sense, always informative, calm and collective. I’m glad you do what you do, but I cannot help thinking it’s a pity you are not in government. People like you, put in a position of power, would make a real, positive difference. Keep up your excellent work sir.
Well said, Harry. Excellent content. Journalists and programme makers take note: Everything you want to know about British farming can be found right here.
Thank you for this! We are grass farmers (beef and sheep) and do raise some crops, but growing grass is the most sustainable thing we do. We farm in the Midwest of the U.S., and this land was once prairie. The prairies evolved with the Buffalo. I ask people, "Were the buffalo responsible for Global Warming?" No. We move our cows often to try to replicate what the buffalo did. I try to explain all of the time to people the difference between the methane released from fossil fuels versus that which is cycling as part of the biological carbon cycle. I don't know why that is so hard for people to wrap their minds around, but I think it's partly because they have this preconception that all methane and carbon is bad. Actually, my husband and I feel that our row crop farming is more destructive to this land than our livestock production, because this land wants to be grass (or a polyculture forming sod.) I try to tell people that land is not an abstract concept...it is specific...just as you were suggesting in your video. Ask what the land wants to be, what it was before we got here, and farm with that in mind. (By the way, you are better off eating your British beef than ours in the US, because most beef in the US is raised unsustainably.) Thanks! As someone once said, "It's not the cow, it's the how."
What a great video someone who actually talks sense. This message needs to spread far and wide.
Look, there's a context warning. Harry must be on to something.
If Harry is speaking, I’m listening.
Harry, I always await your Farm video's with interest and anticipation. This one is spot on. The problem is that the mainstream media channels for whatever reason dont want to accept your reasoned point of view and their coverage to the general population is much greater than yours via youtube. However could you consider a link up with your neighbour Jeremy Clarkson whose Amazon farming programme has got massive reach into the UK populace to jointly get this very important message about beef farming in the UK and Ireland across to the public before its too late
Nice piece, thank you, an argument that needs to be made.
Well said Harry ! your cattle look so healthy so content the British Farmer is always the whipping boy and channels like yours and many many others need to redress the balance and inform the British public what a fantastic industry british farming is !