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| WATCH: He Flew A Drone Over Farmland. What He Captured On Film Will Have You Rethinking Your Food | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 5 2015, 03:21 AM (304 Views) | |
| Darcie | Jan 5 2015, 03:21 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.wimp.com/overfarmland/ I am in shock about this video, not only about how the animals are treated but also about how many there are and the ecological and health problems. The people speaking seem to be very reputable. Would appreciate and critiques or comments. |
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| wildie | Jan 5 2015, 07:17 AM Post #2 |
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Shit! I followed your link and was informed that my plug-in was out of date. A link was provided to the update site! Here I was told that my plug-ins are good! Anybody else have this problem? |
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| Delphi51 | Jan 5 2015, 08:31 AM Post #3 |
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It worked okay on iPad. I hated the smell from big pig operations a few years ago, but there has been a vast improvement. I haven't smelled one for quite a while. In retirement, my dad kept a couple of pigs on the remainder of his farm. They were quite friendly beasts, easy to take care of. They had a large pen with access to mud and water. Tasty, too. |
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| Kahu | Jan 5 2015, 11:21 AM Post #4 |
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When farming any animal intensively there will always an environmental trade off with the local human population. NZ's scale of intensive pig farming is nowhere near the size of that of Canada nor the US. I saw a huge pig farm from the train window on the trip from Toronto to Ottawa and noted the huge effluent pond which was partially screened by a brush covered bank. I couldn't smell anything at all, being on the train ... but my imagination worked over time. I didn't notice any housing around it, that I remember anyway. Appendix IV: Good management practices for intensive pig farming This appendix has been included in the Plan for general public information and education purposes. The information contained in this appendix also provides guidance on the best practicable options for preventing or minimising adverse effects on the environment from emissions to air from pig farming. It also provides a general indication of the matters that the regional council may consider and the nature of the conditions that might be attached to a resource consent for the discharge of contaminants into the air from piggeries (refer rules 47 to 50).Source Link New Zealand As of 2015, it will be illegal to use sow crates on New Zealand pig farms. ... According to Scoop, in 2009 the New Zealand pork industry was "dealt a shameful public relations slap-in-the-face after its former celebrity kingpin, Mike King, outed their farming practices as 'brutal,' 'callous' and 'evil'" on a May episode of New Zealand television show Sunday. King condemned the "appalling treatment" of factory farmed pigs. King observed conditions inside a New Zealand piggery, and saw a dead female pig inside a sow stall, lame and crippled pigs and others that could barely stand, pigs either extremely depressed or highly distressed, pigs with scars and injuries, and a lack of clean drinking water and food. Sow crate farming should be illegal and we should outlaw it right now. It is absolutely disgusting and I am sorry that I was part of it, —Mike King, 2009, Source link FarmWatch a Vegan Lobby Group NZ |
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| Darcie | Jan 5 2015, 11:58 AM Post #5 |
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Kahu, has there been any investigations of the environmental damage done by intensive farming? |
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| Kahu | Jan 5 2015, 12:15 PM Post #6 |
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We do it all the time ... particularly with the intensification of dairying down into the South Island. In a global context New Zealand can be described as being in the business of pampering the palates and passions of the world’s more prosperous citizens. We do this through exporting our foods, fibres, wines, films and delivering great visitor experiences in our Gondwanan landscapes. New Zealanders are highly dependent on our natural capital – our waters, soils and biodiversity – for sustaining these wealth-generating capabilities. In this report we examine the environmental sustainability of more intensive farming in New Zealand. That is, we look at how well the natural resource base of farming is being maintained. We do this by teasing out some of the complex economic, social, political, environmental and global forces that are shaping New Zealand’s food and fibre businesses. Our starting position is an optimistic one. My team and I believe that New Zealand’s farming sector will continue to play a vital role in our economy far into a distant future. We also believe in the ability of New Zealanders to innovate, to recognise when new directions are needed, and to redesign systems to meet new challenges and opportunities Growing for Good As New Zealand tries to squeeze maximum value out of its natural resources, conflicts over water are coming to a boil. We’re fast approaching water resource limits in some parts of the country, and pollution issues are threatening our clean, green brand. Despite a comprehensive clean-up of dirty ‘point-source’ discharges in the 1990s, water quality in many of our lakes and rivers is still declining. The cause this time is ‘diffuse-source’ pollution associated with intensive land use, particularly pastoral farming. How clean are our rivers? |
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| wildie | Jan 5 2015, 02:03 PM Post #7 |
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Pork production is a large part of agriculture here in Ontario. Rather than have large effluent ponds the practice was to spray it directly on crops such as corn and soya beans. The soil can only hold so much, then the over-flow runs into the water shed. And then into the Great Lakes! Europe clamped down on agriculture polution, so farmers there, packed up and came to Canada. Unfortunately, this increase in pork production resulted in major recreational loss's when beaches were closed from high bacteria levels. Laws have now been established that make it illegal for farm operations to allow polluted run off. The extra effluent is now trucked away and run through sewage treatment plants. A common comment was that the Europeans get the profit, the Chinese get the pork and we Canadians are left with the SHIT! |
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| Kahu | Jan 6 2015, 11:42 AM Post #8 |
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We have a similar saying .... |
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| Trotsky | Jan 6 2015, 11:52 AM Post #9 |
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Very informative video, Darcie. Finally a GOOD use for drones that are not prevented by fences from seeing ecological ruin. The video features pig farming, but cattle and poultry factory farms are little different. |
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| wildie | Jan 6 2015, 04:00 PM Post #10 |
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New Canadian law now requires that a flight plan must be filed before flying these micro-helicopters, ANYWHERE! So, if the gov. wants to keep a secret, permission to over-fly could be refused! There are areas in Canada where over-flights are prohibited already! As they are in the USA. |
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| Kahu | Jan 7 2015, 11:28 AM Post #11 |
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This area is under review for us too ... RPAS, UAV, UAS, Drones and Model Aircraft Intensive dairying and poultry farming are just as potentially damaging to the environment as intensive pig farming ... Intensive Poultry Farming Intensive Dairy Farming - Effluent |
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