FabSwingers.com forum: Sheep

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

What idea is that, then?

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By *enuine lad2Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

Vegans would disagree with you

There is substantial data that growing plants is better and more ecological than growing meat

And why do some people think British , subsidised farmers deserve our money more than any other human who chooses to farm?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

I thought this was going to be a rant about people on fab just following one another.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

Absolutely

It's important to try and maintain not just the countryside but British businesses and trade too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I buy British where I can.

But I'm not sure how deep your views are on it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Absolutely

It's important to try and maintain not just the countryside but British businesses and trade too

absolutely

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd love a kebab

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

Hear, hear!

I was at Quest (the esoteric one) one year and the debate turned to self sustainability and the countryside. What most people fail to realise is that there are no more truly wild places - save for the tops of mountains - left in Britain.

Everywhere we look has a some point or is continued to be managed by the hand of humankind. If farmer's go out of business who will maintain our countryside. The answer is no-one because it's too expensive. The countryside will be changed forever, overrun with brambles and nettles. Livestock play an essential role despite the protestations of narrow minded veggies.

As an ex dairyman i am sick to death of everyone kicking the poor farmers of this great nation, they don't deserve this. We should give them our wholehearted support in any way we can.

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

Yes we should support British farmers. But I don't eat lamb

to fatty for my old body

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yes we should support British farmers. But I don't eat lamb

to fatty for my old body"
Tesco and other supermarkets are killing the farm industry.

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over a year ago

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By *andsonjohnMan
over a year ago

in the eye of the storm

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

Ooo i really like you and I don't care who bloody well knows and what they think of the fact i like you

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

But what is this sheep idea?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I always get my meat from local butchers.I've actually loads of sheep one side of garden and cows other

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Tesco and other supermarkets are killing the farm industry. "

Where do you think sheep are born and raised?

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"Yes we should support British farmers. But I don't eat lamb

to fatty for my old body Tesco and other supermarkets are killing the farm industry. "

Lamb is still pretty buoyant though - probably because of the competition from the EU, to where we export a lot of lamb....

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By *iSTARessWoman
over a year ago

London

What the...?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Does getting your lamb from the inlaws that you bottle-fed 6 months earlier count?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Tesco and other supermarkets are killing the farm industry.

Where do you think sheep are born and raised? "
you don't have to educate us on farming I'm more than aware how and where sheep are raised

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Vegans would disagree with you

There is substantial data that growing plants is better and more ecological than growing meat

And why do some people think British , subsidised farmers deserve our money more than any other human who chooses to farm?"

You cannot oversimplify ecological data to "plants are less harmful than animals to produce", it nonsense, which results from the reductiop of scientific data in order to make a soundbite.

Sheep are a pretty good example - Sheep are mostly produced on marginal land that isn't much good for anthing else. You couldn't produce a plant crop on the slopes of Snowdon, for example, but you can produce protien in the form of sheep meat.

Where this marginal land is close to cropping land, sheep are increasingly being brought down the hill in winter (as used to happen pre petrochemical fertilisers) to graze a catch crop (turnips for example) to bring some fertility to the arable land, which means that less chemical fertilisers are needed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Vegans would disagree with you

There is substantial data that growing plants is better and more ecological than growing meat

And why do some people think British , subsidised farmers deserve our money more than any other human who chooses to farm?"

............as we are in Britain hence we should support and help our flailing agricultural before propping up the rest of the worlds to sell back to us at inflated prices .......yes there some evidence that it is less impacting to grow instead of produce animals ...but a we are naturally carnivorous,we would not of made it past natural selection /evolution if not ,,,b unless we changed our complete farming production models to gm foods it would not be sustainable or profitable and I bet my left testi you and your dont step on that ant types wont swallow Frankenstein foods ....so its a rock and a hard place and any way lamb is bloody lovely ohh ph oh I going weatherspoons to get a steak I feel hold the salad please I got multivitamins for that protien is my friend dont say soy n hemp n that white rubber tat it ain't the same xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Vegans would disagree with you

There is substantial data that growing plants is better and more ecological than growing meat

And why do some people think British , subsidised farmers deserve our money more than any other human who chooses to farm?"

Lower transport costs - ecological

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Tesco and other supermarkets are killing the farm industry.

Where do you think sheep are born and raised? "

It's actually the consumer's (us) desire for cheap produce that is killing agriculture. Supermarkets merely facilitate this. On that note Morrisons supply a range of dairy produce where 10p extra goes directly into the farmer's pocket. Keep an eye out for this i always buy it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky."

Haha, this is also true but i still love them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And they taste so lovely too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky.

Haha, this is also true but i still love them.

Even though i had to pull a dead one out of a ditch this week.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

Baaaaaaaaa -

Humbug

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By *anetandNickCouple
over a year ago

Ross-on-Wye

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

Welsh lamb mmmm delicious!

Janet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky.

Haha, this is also true but i still love them.

I like rare ones. With redcurrant gravy.

I do not like ones that are lambing outside, catching twin lamb disease, aborting everywhere in a torrential storm.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Tesco and other supermarkets are killing the farm industry.

Where do you think sheep are born and raised? you don't have to educate us on farming I'm more than aware how and where sheep are raised "

I think we are on the same level as ma username used to be superramfan

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By *iggles and BeardyCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

I love lamb, but with prices now I just don't eat the highly priced bollox that is a so called lamb chop.. a mouth full isn't a chop!

Bring back mutton and goat, we miss out on such awesome meats in this country.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

this is either a thinly veiled dig at those who follow the flock...

or a not so thinly veiled one..

either way, I try and buy Welsh wherever possible as, although it is more expensive it is far superior to NZ

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky.

Haha, this is also true but i still love them.

I like rare ones. With redcurrant gravy.

I do not like ones that are lambing outside, catching twin lamb disease, aborting everywhere in a torrential storm."

Lost one to twin lamb disease 2 weeks ago but triplets are worse.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky.

Haha, this is also true but i still love them.

I like rare ones. With redcurrant gravy.

I do not like ones that are lambing outside, catching twin lamb disease, aborting everywhere in a torrential storm.

Lost one to twin lamb disease 2 weeks ago but triplets are worse."

Had Quads once- Jacobs- great mum though- they all made it!

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky.

Haha, this is also true but i still love them.

Me too - I could distinguish a distress cry from a normal cry and used to get up and go out in the middle of the night to extract one from whatever it was caught in, lol, bless 'em, I love having sheep out with my horses.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What you lamb lovers need to do is go visit fires of dean in two month times...set a bull bars and you be sorted freezer full for months good fao a bit of deer and wild bore but the boar are hard bastards be warned

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Forest of dean ...dnt set it on fire for Christ sake lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky.

Haha, this is also true but i still love them.

I like rare ones. With redcurrant gravy.

I do not like ones that are lambing outside, catching twin lamb disease, aborting everywhere in a torrential storm.

Lost one to twin lamb disease 2 weeks ago but triplets are worse.

Had Quads once- Jacobs- great mum though- they all made it!"

That's amazing, how on earth did you manage that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What you lamb lovers need to do is go visit fires of dean in two month times...set a bull bars and you be sorted freezer full for months good fao a bit of deer and wild bore but the boar are hard bastards be warned "

can we have that in English now please?

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By *oecurlingkink999Couple
over a year ago

Rhuddan

And you started this tread on st DAVIDS DAY

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky.

Haha, this is also true but i still love them.

They make great companions, i have a friend with one ewe that thinks it's a horse and won't hang out with the rest of the flock. I've never seen it try to take a jump though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A truly great post to wind up the vegetarians.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Ooo i really like you and I don't care who bloody well knows and what they think of the fact i like you

Thank you. Likewise naughty man

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"And ewe started this tread on st DAVIDS DAY

FTFY

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"What the...? "

???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Ooo i really like you and I don't care who bloody well knows and what they think of the fact i like you

BAAAAAAAAAAAA

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"And ewe started this tread on st DAVIDS DAY

FTFY

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

...is this about re-wilding? Wolves in The Lake District? If so, I prefer the ovine option. I had mutton once and it was good.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky.

Haha, this is also true but i still love them.

They make great companions, i have a friend with one ewe that thinks it's a horse and won't hang out with the rest of the flock. I've never seen it try to take a jump though.

They're great for settling nervous horses - make a good early warning system!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Does getting your lamb from the inlaws that you bottle-fed 6 months earlier count?

You bottle fed yr in-laws? Now that is kinky

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British."

I thought this really was about some forum users,if id of known it was about real sheep i wouldnt have come in this thread!! But....i did just like so many others did,you know what this means!

Baaaaaaaaaaa baaaaaa baaaaaaa

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Horrible things.

Give a sheep a perfectly good field and it will throw itself upside down and die!

And they are stinky.

Haha, this is also true but i still love them.

They make great companions, i have a friend with one ewe that thinks it's a horse and won't hang out with the rest of the flock. I've never seen it try to take a jump though.

They're great for settling nervous horses - make a good early warning system!

And they keep the grass down where horses can't get to.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tiny lambs running around. Squeeeeeeeee

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just lost my will to live

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just lost my will to live

You don't share in our delights in all things ovine? Strange.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"Tiny lambs running around. Squeeeeeeeee

Yes, it'll be time for watching gangs of lambs romping in the sunshine really soon!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Tiny lambs running around. Squeeeeeeeee

Yes, it'll be time for watching gangs of lambs romping in the sunshine really soon!!

Lambing started a couple of weeks ago here. To quote 'sweeeeeeeeet'

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I just lost my will to live

It's good to discuss a wide range of subjects

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Ok

I thought this was going to be a rant about people on fab just following one another."

Oh you cynic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Tiny lambs running around. Squeeeeeeeee

Yes, it'll be time for watching gangs of lambs romping in the sunshine really soon!!

I went to the South Downs last year and the sheep weren't phased by seeing people, even the lambs let us stroke them. Heaven, right there!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Slightly off topic but reminded me of something i read earlier....

Vegans piss me off... you don't see or hear meat eaters shouting their views down the vegan necks.

Do your thing and be quiet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Slightly off topic but reminded me of something i read earlier....

Vegans piss me off... you don't see or hear meat eaters shouting their views down the vegan necks.

Do your thing and be quiet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Quite a few of my pals and family are sheep farmers .

Given the crap deal dairy farmers are getting , sheep provide and extra income .

Most of the farmers I know are now rueing the day they abolished the milk marketing board

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fucking hell.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Quite a few of my pals and family are sheep farmers .

Given the crap deal dairy farmers are getting , sheep provide and extra income .

Most of the farmers I know are now rueing the day they abolished the milk marketing board

To quote DEFRA's figures for June 2015, farm gate prices (how much the farmer gets for his milk) were around 23.66 pence per litre. It costs around 30 pence per litre to produce. We should reinstate the MMB, reduce foreign imports (we are not self sufficient) and charge consumers the real value of what they're actually getting.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Baaaaaaa!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Quite a few of my pals and family are sheep farmers .

Given the crap deal dairy farmers are getting , sheep provide and extra income .

Most of the farmers I know are now rueing the day they abolished the milk marketing board

Very true. There will be many wishing they could turn back the clock.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Slightly off topic but reminded me of something i read earlier....

Vegans piss me off... you don't see or hear meat eaters shouting their views down the vegan necks.

Do your thing and be quiet

Haha yes but you constantly see meat and dairy etc being advertised to the public and companies trying their hardest to get people to buy meat from them. Also, you should note that whenever a vegan or vegetarian tells someone they are one, the meat eater will almost always go on a tangent about how it's wrong and how eating meat is right etc. How is that not shoving views down people's throats?

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By *rinking-in-laCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Vegans would disagree with you

There is substantial data that growing plants is better and more ecological than growing meat

And why do some people think British , subsidised farmers deserve our money more than any other human who chooses to farm?"

Good luck growing plants on a rugged hillside.

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By *andi_shopWoman
over a year ago

rotherham

"Ok

I thought this was going to be a rant about people on fab just following one another."

Me too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fucking hell.

yep!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Slightly off topic but reminded me of something i read earlier....

Vegans piss me off... you don't see or hear meat eaters shouting their views down the vegan necks.

Do your thing and be quiet

I don't feel the need to announce that I'm a meat eater.. or a bisexual... or a member of the WI.

If you share any piece of info about yourself you will get conversation from it.

Vegans don't get hate abuse for not eating meat but they dish it back quite happily.

Now is prob the time to say I didn't eat meat for 8+ years... not because I thought it was cruel.. inhumane or unfair to the farmers. Because it was a free choice of what to have for dinner

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

They are also good company for Welsh ramblers

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I think I'm more in favour of having more decent people than farming than many of the land grabbing and abusing lot that are currently doing it. I believe this as someone whose family stretches centuries and generations down to the present.

With more people displaced from work by technology, in the very near future, we could deploy many to be caretakers of our countryside, amongst other essential activities to preserve our shared heritage and well being.

With increased use of robotics etc, the rich few will become increasingly super wealthy, whilst the masses will struggle for income and to support themselves. Sheep may be a small part of this but we must rely less on meat for our food in future and massively reduce our Carbon footprints.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Tesco and other supermarkets are killing the farm industry.

Where do you think sheep are born and raised? "

West Philadelphia?

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By *ehind blue eyes38Man
over a year ago

Hunstanton

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.

So please support our farmers and buy British.

Vegans would disagree with you

There is substantial data that growing plants is better and more ecological than growing meat

And why do some people think British , subsidised farmers deserve our money more than any other human who chooses to farm?"

It's funny how many people don't realise why farmers are subsidised, main reason is to keep the cost of food in the shops cheaper for the public, take them away and add the cost on at the till and how many people would then complain about subsidies? Or we stop growing crops and producing meat eggs and milk or any farming full stop. How economical would it be to ship everything in from abroad? The cost of producing food is not cheap!

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By *ornstudMan
over a year ago

alnwick

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By *ornstudMan
over a year ago

alnwick

"Some people agree with my idea about sheep, some obviously don't, and that is absolutely fine.

However I am allowed to state an opinion even if it goes against the majority views.

Sheep are vital to maintaining our countryside, and we would be in a worse state without them.good point

So please support our farmers and buy British."

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Vital for Romney marsh

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