Steve Truman of Agmates whops it up state and federal farming organisations, for their lack of effort on preventing the Federal Governments nutter Emissions Trading Scheme.
I guess I just keep thinking that eventually people will wake up and realise the ludicrousness of the scheme, and that’s it’s simply a bright idea that even the most overly optimistic business entrepreneur would not have envisaged would ever get off the ground in a sensible, logical society. Surely everyone knows it’s just a silly scheme for greedy do-stuff-all-traders to make a ridiculous amount of money from? And that even the dimmest twit has started to put two-and-two together re. dodgy smoke & mirrors feel-good money making schemes, since the demise of the managed investment schemes such as Timbercorp and Great Southern Plantations? But uh-oh maybe carbon trading is another one of those things that you think is so dumb it’ll never ever happen, couldn’t possibly become a reality – that actually does. Simply because we presume that everyone can see that the Emperor really does have no clothes on at all, when in fact, some are as blind as bats.
I just keep dreaming about farmers and graziers, en-masse, withholding produce sales for a few weeks. The average suburban resident is lucky to have just one loaf of bread or packet of fish fingers in their freezer, alongside their icecream. Most trot off to the shops at least twice a week, and would have very bare pantries after seven days (it’d just be spices, tomato sauce, tinned bake beans from last year’s cyclone alert, and stuff-all else). When roads close here for a few days each year due to flooding, there’s a mass stampede to the supermarket shelves and they empty within days. Milk goes first. Boy people would start thinking farmers were important and their plight more worthy of attention if their fridges, freezes and pantry shelves – and stomachs – were all completely empty.
Tags: Australian meat industry, Conservation and the environment