Schafe verschwinden aus den Hügeln Großbritanniens und auch von den Tellern
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrzd72wp5zo
Von ConsciousStop
Schafe verschwinden aus den Hügeln Großbritanniens und auch von den Tellern
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrzd72wp5zo
Von ConsciousStop
28 Kommentare
Societal trend with numerous causes, when this happens someone ends up drawing the short straw and this time it’s sheep farmers.
Cost of living is a biggie. Mutton and lamb are not cheap compared to chicken.
People also want more protein in their diets nowadays, which means some people are consuming more meat than they used to. Far more cost effective to use chicken if you’re a meat eater.
And there are more people who just don’t eat meat at all now.
That’s really odd, because the farmers around my area (not in Yorkshire) are starting sheep farming. Speaking to one of them, they said that it’s a no-brainer due to the high price of lamb and relatively low out-lays. There are thousands of the cloudy, fluffy buggers everywhere around me now.
>[S]heep are only ever trying to do one of three things: „Escape, or die, or escape and then immediately die.“
lol
If we’re getting all this cheap lamb from NZ and Australia why is a decline in domestic production pushing the price up so high? I love lamb, it’s my favourite meat but I can’t justify paying £20+ on a leg of lamb when a whole chicken is less than a fiver.
From a very quick look;
500g beef mince 20% fat £4.25
500g lamb mince 20% fat £7
2 Pork Chops 400g £4.30
2 Lamb Loin Chops 230g £7.07
Pork Leg 2kg £26
Shin of Beef 2kg £24 < A couple of people have pointed out this cut of beef may not be a „fair“ comparison, but I think the general point still stands.
Leg of Lamb 2kg £41.80
Tastes and fashions change, but lamb being nearly double the cost of pork and beef probably has a fair bit to do with it.
EDIT: Someone suggested topside would be a better beef comparison. From the same place I was pulling the other stats;
Beef Topside 1kg £14.66 so double it to bring it to the 2kg weight of the pork and lamb legs makes it around £30
Those fuckin‘ dinner plates are out of control, coming over here and taking over our hills.
I often drive over the M62 and notice the paltry numbers of sheep grazing. I reckon we could get hundreds of thousands more up there and bring the price right down. I am not a farmer.
Meanwhile, we have to get more people eating lamb. Perhaps we could get the sinister 80’s pork man out of retirement for a lamb advert.
I used to eat a lot of lamb and mutton. But in recent years it has become extremely fatty and the kind of fat that doesnt melt away in the cooking process.
So in recent years I’ve stopped buying it. Also it has become quite expensive compared to cheaper options like chicken or quorn.
I miss lamb. At this point we have it once a year when we go to Mam’s. Too expensive.
Peak sheep is here. Rewilding good, but imports suck for farmers.
Lamb is expensive and fatty…
I just stick with beef or chicken mostly due to the price.
Same thing when someone asks the question ‚why isnt my house selling‘ its always price. I have eaten lamb in near a decade as its so expensive. If thats the price of farming then unfortunately its nkt economically viable
The random dog attacks that are attacking when being walled near the lands where dogs are off the leash had some up to 14 sheep injured in one go, alot of being killed too that keeps happening.
I did some online shopping the other day and brought a leg of lamb for £15. I foolishly didn’t double check the weight. When the delivery guy came I thought they’d forgotten the lamb – I couldn’t see it. Turns out, I actually brought a half leg of lamb, 0.8 kg.
I’m making lamb tagine tonight and it had better be the best thing I’ve ever cooked.
Remembering why I never buy lamb.
I’ve never really looked into the stats of sheep as meat resource or wool resource in the UK
I don’t remember the last time I ate Lamb/Sheep but Wool is very common in the economy
Sheep farming has ruined the British countryside in my opinion. Reduced our natural habits to just grass and moors in many places
I saw a bunch of sheep yesterday, but if there’s a scarcity I’ll not say where.
Gonna speak with my cousin this weekend about ways we can protext the fields, she has 220 sheep up in Kirkby Lonsdale
This is great news. Sheep are a non-native and incredibly damaging to the British countryside species. Sheep farms only exist in any numbers due to the massive subsidies the sheep farmers get from the taxpayer. Money that could be used for far more important things that don’t turn places like the Peak District or Snowdonia into grassy wastelands.
When I read this I thought – “dinner plates are out murdering sheep?”
Coming up to the end of Ramadan and sheep farmers love it, biggest market they have
I’ll be honest, to me most shop bought lamb tastes pretty rubbish. The majority of times I eat it, which is rarely, is from some kind of Greek/Turkish/Kurdish/Arabic restaurant as part of a mixed grill or kebab, or occasionally a curry house, however the vast majority of the time I order chicken and vegetarian dishes.
A crofter told me once sheep are great, they kill themselves it’s just a bitch to find them
It always confuses me how sheep farming can be economically infeasible when the cost to buy the meat has pretty much doubled in the last 5 years. And yes I know there has been inflation in general over that time, but sheep seems to have gone up way more than that.
I like it, it’s my favourite meat and I buy quite a bit of it. But the price has gone up to the point where I am consciously reducing my usage.
We used to be market leaders in the wool trade I guess we eating them more now.
Read this as sentient tableware rustling farm animals
If the sheep disappear from our hillsides (and the deer), then perhaps we can finally have some decent forest cover once again, rather than the boggy, barren desert that currently covers most of our uplands.
Good get rid of them and rewild our uplands. The government should not be subsidising any form of invasive species sheep farming destroying our biosphere with barren grass fields full of shit. Bring back forests and get rid of all the fences. In Scotland there is so much land dedicated for raising sheep and the only semi wild places you can go are commercial pine forests. There should be more national parks and native forestry that benefit the people and not some farmers‘ way of life. Would not complain if there was no lamb on shelf if they returned the countryside back to a natural environment.