„Sie werden uns vom Hügel verjagen“ – Schafzüchter sagen, dass die Erhöhung der Pacht um 900 Prozent der jahrhundertealten Tradition ein Ende setzen wird
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/theyre-going-to-hunt-us-off-the-hill-sheep-farmers-say-900pc-rent-hike-will-put-an-end-to-centuries-old-tradition/a2059416091.html
Von Like_a_Fecking_Ball
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Would be great for wildlife and a chance at re wilding. Bring it on.
Do we actually want sheep eating all the native vegetation?
I’m sorry to say I think hills should be covered in trees at least. Trying to make ever single square meter of Ireland into productive farming land at the expense of places for nature to cling on was a human error made by everyone over centuries. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be corrected.
This tradition has run its course. Sheep farming on our uplands costs the taxpayer millions in farm subsidies each year, with terrible environmental outcomes (from the sheep itself but also associated practices such as gorse burning).
Burning peat en masse and pouring slurry into rivers are centuries old traditions too, and we’re stopping those. Something being old does not make it desirable
I would honestly rather if the government continued paying the sheep subsidy to farmers who *stopped* farming sheep.
Fuck sheep anyways, their sole purpose is to get in the way of cars
Sheep farming is an ecological disaster on marginal land kept alive by agricultural social welfare for export markets. 17 to 20 % of Irelands land is used for agriculture kept on life support for a fraction of 1% of the nations economy. Give the hills back to nature
Everyone seems to hate sheep in thsi thread.
The farmers are at it again lads
Good. The hills should be covered in vegetation and them being covered with sheep is terrible for the environment and is hugely contributing towards the regular flooding we are seeing happen around the country.
The sooner it stops the better.
they burn the mountains and hills every year too.
Under no uncertain terms fuck the Duke of Devonshire doing something that sounds Dickensian.
But in reality we can’t have sheep roaming the mountains in their current form. The mountains are barren from years of over grazing by a non native mammal.