The con behind COP26
Farming produces 15 per cent of the world's methane, apparently, BUT 100 per cent of the food.
To reduce food production of any kind – meat or vegetarian – is unbelievably short-sighted. We could live without cars, in theory, or planes or televisions. We know that from the war. But not without food, shelter, water or our health.
Of course it's not realistic to go back 70 years ago, I'm just stating the obvious about food production.
COP 26. Is it a "cop out" when people from across the world flew in and out instead of using Zoom? Farming is the whipping boy, it's easy to pick on a minority, after all. It takes your eye off the "green electric cars" whose batteries use cobalt, nickel, lithium and manganese which is wrecking the world by mining, but making millions for corporations and leaders of industry.
We're being conned.
Rosemary Allen is a retired livestock farmer living near Ellesmere
