English: Farmer milking a cow. Intended for article in Signpost by Ed Gold.
Simon Fairlie, editor of The Land Magazine, Bridport, Dorset: "Basically people need to eat clean meat and decently priced meat and I’m quite disappointed in the vegan movement that I think doesn’t understand how British agriculture works and is missing the point. People should stop using fossil fuels and meat would decline automatically to natural levels, partly because there wouldn’t be any artificial fertilizer and there would be competition for land for biomass production. Lifestyle needs to be looked after and valued properly. I am anti-vegan as it seems to me to be stupid to completely expunge and eradicate one whole part of creation out of the agricultural system. Over millennia people have built up relationships with animals and it’s completely nuts to remove them because they say it is exploitation. I’m not going to argue in favour of factory farming as they are disgusting and have blotted the copybook of decent farms, but if animals are treated properly and the domestic relationship they are in is treated properly it is a really good one."
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