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North Farm is the last working dairy farm left for miles. Mr Lawton said: "... all my neighbours have given up. It's become incredibly bureaucratic and it's completely over-powered by bureaucrats - there must be two civil servants in Defra (Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs) for every farmer in the countryside.". ...The sheer amount of paperwork and restrictions on what farmers can do is a problem - it takes up around 60 per cent of Mr Lawton's time. "It's difficult particularly for us family farms who don't have a huge staff for administration," he said .www.thisisswindon.co.uk...
Originally posted by unknown known
Well how the hell do you avoid tap water? Use bottled water for everything? The purifiers that you put on your tap dont take it out.
No, we are entering a period of socioeconomic chaos, and out of the phase change that is coming will come the next period of humanity. It could be anything from a utopia to a thermonuclear wasteland. That depends on the global consciousness, on people waking up. So what will it be folks, fear or love?
Apart from the damages farmers will suffer from losing their livestock, Constantinou added, they will also have to build new farms as they won’t be able to use the old ones, according to the relevant EU Directive on dealing with scrapie. www.cyprus-mail.com...
Today's food and financial crises have, in tandem, triggered a new global land grab. "Food insecure" governments that rely on imports to feed their people are snapping up farms all over the world to outsource their own food production and escape high market prices.
Private investors, hungry for profits in the midst of the deepening financial crisis, are eyeing overseas farms as an important new source of revenue. As a result of both trends, fertile agricultural land is being swiftly privatised and consolidated by foreign companies in some of the world's poorest and hungriest countries. A new report from GRAIN examines 100 cases of agricultural land grabbing -- whether for food or simply for profit -- that have exploded this year.
Saudi Arabia and China are just two nations out buying farms, from Sudan to Cambodia, to satisfy their own food needs. In these cases, governments, sometimes through sovereign wealth funds, are negotiating rights to foreign land -- whether by purchase, concession or lease -- so that their corporations can come in and produce food to export back home. In return, they are offering oil contracts, soft loans, infrastructure projects and development funds.
The food-hungry land grabbers include China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Those giving up their land, in exchange for the oil deals or investments, include the Philippines, Mozambique, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sudan, Uganda, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Zimbabwe. www.grain.org...
Originally posted by OptionFour
Originally posted by unknown known
Well how the hell do you avoid tap water? Use bottled water for everything? The purifiers that you put on your tap dont take it out.
A reverse osmosis water filter will take out fluoride, I believe. Though perhaps not the cheapest solution it is the easiest to maintain.