Farm emission plan announced, expect to pay more for your food...

[C_T_Russell]

I still think in the grand scheme of things its not enough to affect things, we could make better efforts with re-forestation, banning palm oil and products that contribute to de-forestation.
We once had more trees which would have absorbed the CO2, just like we have more humans breathing out CO2 and less trees than 100 years ago for example, thats got to be a bigger deal in itself.

Burning fossil fuel is the No.1 issue to be addressed, taxing the shit out of fuel to discourage drivers is not the solution either, especially when this money isint actually going to any forestation efforts overseas in the amazon, etc.
Intensive farming is not the solution either, we are proud of our grass fed beef and that would be disastrous if we went that way. Animal welfare is the main concern, but its also a poorer product quality and wont demand high market price.
Countries who intensive farm their beef want to buy our stuff because its better!

I fully support re-forestation, but only on areas that are uneconomic to farm and must be native bush, not shitty pine trees.

Yes elephants may not be ruminants, but methane is still produced in the gut of pretty much any animal on this planet.

Struggling to follow your logic there chap. We are already farming intensively (e.g. imported feed, undercover feed out facilities, break feeding herds of 100s+) so the degredation to our environment is a result. Also are you saying that well treated animals result in inferior produce? Why do you think then that organic products command such a premium in price, to markets that far outstrip our ability to supply them?

Thats the whole point, you said earlier that intensive farming is a solution to greenhouse emissions.
Why would we want to introduce more undercover farming indoors?
Well treated animals that are permitted to roam free on grass is better for animal welfare and also will give a better quality product.
Our govt doesnt give a shit, or else they would have banned palm kernel imports that are used on stock feed, thats a by-product of something that contributes to de-forestation.

At the other end of the scale, organic products are unaffordable for many and if the greens had their way, we would see all farmers faced to use permaculture methods for farming which would be so cost prohibitive.
The other solution is to force the population into eating insects which we are sadly seeing much more of this promoted as a "solution" to climate change.