Veteran Daily Mail correspondent Robert Hardman has written an illuminating piece about the effort to stop cows farting. Here’s how it begins:
Another week, another car crash in the world of marketing as, once again, a proudly progressive product launch smashes headlong into an awkward but immutable reality: you patronise the British public at your peril.
Last time, you may recall, it actually involved a real car-maker, as Jaguar rebranded itself with a new campaign featuring every colour and letter on the LGBTQ spectrum to show just how much it cares, while omitting to include any actual vehicles. Car fans have not stopped laughing (or crying) ever since.
This week’s self-inflicted disaster comes courtesy of several High Street supermarkets, a major European milk co-operative and a £23 billion Swiss-Dutch food and beauty corporation you have never heard of.
In just a matter of days, their “exciting” new eco-friendly cow snack has gone from a virtuous, planet-saving elixir for British agriculture to a pariah product painted as the new anthrax. Social media is buzzing with videos of people chucking “tainted” milk down the pan while rival milk producers have seen sales shoot up.
And after a 500-mile tour of U.K. farms this week, I have seen how the U.K.’s already beleaguered farming industry has been split down the middle over an innovation it never asked for – but may still have rammed down its throat by the Government.
It’s another case study for proponents of the adage: “go woke, go broke”. Still, one group are feeling very happy. It’s been a good week for vegans.
What a bold and brilliant vision it must have seemed when the consortium behind this latest wheeze gathered round the corporate conference table to brainstorm their new plan for the farmyard. With the blessing of the government, they would not only help slash UK carbon emissions but show a kinder, greener face – and all just by tinkering with the inner workings of the biggest methane generator in the British countryside: the dairy cow.
So, 11 days ago, Arla, the Danish-Swedish dairy co-operative which processes the milk from nearly a quarter of Britain’s 9,000 dairy farms and makes Lurpak butter, announced a new scheme as part of its snappily named “FarmAhead [sic] Customer Partnership initiative”.
It would be using a small number of its farms to roll out trials of Bovaer, a new additive for cow food made by Maastricht-based Dutch giant dsm-firmenich (a company so progressive that it has ditched capital letters).
When added to Daisy’s daily diet, Bovaer is said to cut bovine gas emissions from both ends by up to 30 per cent overall. Since UN boffins attribute up to 14 per cent of global carbon emissions to livestock, that equates to a significant saving – as Ed Miliband and his Department of Energy officials chase every carbon saving they can find.
It was launched with a video of happy farmers waxing evangelical about the Bovaer revolution.
‘We are extremely excited about this new collective way of working alongside our retail partners and the possibilities that feed additives, such as this one, present,’ declared Paul Dover from Arla, which supplies milk to Tesco, Aldi and Morrisons. At the same time, these three supermarket giants proudly issued a joint statement announcing: ‘It is this collective approach that is really going to make a difference.’
All could surely expect a few pats on the back. Yet the congratulatory champagne corks had barely popped at HQ when we saw the first inklings that the pesky public were not quite as ‘excited’ as they were supposed to be. Indeed, some were reaching for the pitchforks.
Worth reading in full.
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Indeed. The fake news. Paid off, bought long ago. Just an extension of the unDemocratic Communist party. A stolen election, 40 million vote fraud, the forever war, money laundering, showering with his daughter, sniffing children, a degenerate coke snorting idiot as a son laundering money for Daddy through the Uketopia, biolabs everywhere, the synthetic Wuhu-lab flu, the FBI and CIA as his personal Gestapo, calling half of Americans the enemy and terrorists, vomiting his love for Tranny’s when major mass killings were committed by these mentally ill halfwits at Christian schools etc etc.
On the other hand, Biden is the perfect emblem of the evil, stupidity and perversion which is the US empire.
Beautifully put , I remember the staged clip of the grinning cackle fest that is Kamala , dressed in her civvies ,Ear cupped with both hands , cell phone in-between as she cooed supposedly to her new Lord & Master , We Did it Joe , We did it Joe ! ! as news broke of Bidens victory against Trump & I was caught in disbelief that this totally unlikely pairing had pulled off what surely is the biggest of scams ever to win that election !
I read the whole article intently with one question constantly running through my mind, why? The author succinctly answers it with his last sentence.
Nearly all the British media are CIA controlled too. Remember the Russian sub nonsense that appeared on every front page after Biden blew up nordstream. Yeah Russia blew up their own pipeline! Similarly our politicians as an occupied vassal state since 1942 are essentially all Manchurian candidates.
Who did blow it up?
Maybe no-one. Leave a pipeline unpressurised with residual condensate for a while and it is quite likely to go bang, said someone in the industry.
Seriously guys, what’s with the down ticks? I/ we would like to know what you think.
Ah. I see the way it is.
One of the best and honest summaries in the British media I’ve read. Well done.
Both President Biden and Vice President Harris are violating their Oath of Office–
they both solemnly swore they would “bear true faith and allegiance” to the Constitution and that they would “faithfully discharge the duties of the office.”
They stopped doing that a long time ago, probably the moment after they took this oath.
Yeah but as Obama said “The constitution is a document of neagtive liberties. It says what the government cannot do for you but does not say what the government CAN do for you”———-very clever wording —-So the government CAN take away all your fossil fuels eg because they are doing something FOR you.
Obama was mistaken, but it served his purposes.
I think you might want to take a second read of the Constitution, and if you need explanations, start with the “Federalist Papers”.
No I don’t need to read it. ————I strongly disagree with everything coming out of the mouth of Democrats. I hope you did not interpret my remarks as agreeing with Obama.
The purpose of any constitution is to restrain Government, to ensure the Government cannot do anything FOR you, because it cannot possibly know what best to do FOR each individual, and so will do what is best FOR itself.
As Reagan said, Government is the problem, not the solution.
Obama on the other hand was an idiot.
The purpose of the Constitution is (was) to define the roles and responsibilities the States granted to the Federal Govt, to create a gov’t with enough power to act on a national level but without so much power that fundamental rights would be at risk It replaced the Articles of Confederation which was a first try, but failed. The Constitution took a while to create, write, and ratify.
This absolutely personifies the contempt that the Democrat Party holds for its voters, and indeed for the very land of the USA. They will and have literally said, and done anything and everything to hold on to power at the cost of the welfare and well being of the American citizens, even to the extent of encouraging war as opposed to brokering peace. They will stop at nothing toachieve this aim, and for what? so that they can enrich themselves and their already grotesquely wealthy backers. If the American people who were Democrat voters cannot see this, or just choose to ignore it then they really have themselves to blame for the dreadful conclusion to what they are allowing to continue.
Sounds like the Conservatives here.
There’s another important point to be made about Biden. Anyone with at least two brain cells can see that he is suffering from quite advanced dementia, and has been for some time. This is a very ill elderly man who would normally receive sympathy and not hostility. But the ‘caring’ left, in the form of the Democrats, have used this ill elderly man and have now hung him out to dry. They will do anything to advance a socialist agenda; it doesn’t matter who is harmed, maimed or killed in the process. This is what we’re up against.
They’ll just lever in Michelle Obama and win again, you’ll never hear about Biden, or the home he goes to ever again, as if he never existed!
I still think a Biden assassination is on the cards and of course it will be a Trump supporter wot dun it.
Biden has said that only the Lord will prevent him from standing. America’s churches are now full of people praying that he is given just a few months more, as a Harris candidacy is probably impossible to bear.
At least with Biden we will know when AI replaces him, as he will finally become coherent.
Biden is a 4 handicap golfer, part time brain surgeon with a degree in Algebra and speaks 12 languages fluently and once gave a 12 minute speech in Ancient Greek without notes. ——-eh excuse me I was thinking of my old University Professor James Biden. —-Sorry about that. I was getting a bit mixed up.
There were those who thought Trump had made a yuge mistake by agreeing to the debate conditions clearly favourable to Biden and unfavourable to him, but Trump is smart – too many people don’t understand this because they don’t like him.
He knew what state Biden was in and all it would take was to get Biden on a public platform with no teleprompter. Trump could have said nothing and still won.
Why Biden’s handlers didn’t see that indicates their conceit.
The whole thing was a Globalist set-up to prepare the public for Biden standing down for the Cackler.
It could also be that Biden is just acting. He always planned to stand down, in order to enable the Unelectable Kackling Kamala to cackle her way into the White House. All set up by the Globalists, who want to put Ethnic African or Indian females into leadership positions in every western nation, as part of the “Global Goddess Religion”.
Indeed. However it is not true that “his delegates (over 90%) have to vote for him on a first ballot at the Democratic Convention in August”. They have no legal obligation to do so, except in some States.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector