{"id":328429,"date":"2026-06-28T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328429"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:16:32","slug":"labour-urges-farmers-to-stop-raising-cattle-and-grow-lentils-instead-in-net-zero-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328429","title":{"rendered":"Labour Urges Farmers to Stop Raising Cattle and Grow Lentils Instead in Net Zero Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Will Jones \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2026\/06\/27\/labour-urges-farmers-to-stop-raising-cattle-and-grow-lentils-instead-in-net-zero-push\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Daily Sceptic June 27, 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Labour has urged British farmers to stop raising cattle and grow lentils instead as part of a Net Zero push. GB News has more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Government published its highly-anticipated \u2018Farming Roadmap\u2019 on Wednesday, outlining its long-term vision for Britain\u2019s agriculture sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The 71-page document outlined the Government\u2019s intention to help British farmers wind down high-emission farming \u2013 including cattle \u2013 and move towards \u201cgrowing oilseeds and pulses\u201d for planet-based products.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cFarmers will play a critical role in delivering this transition by adopting practices that reduce emissions while sustaining productive, commercially viable businesses,\u201d the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The roadmap is widely regarded as a bid from Labour to get back in rural Britain\u2019s good books amid continued fury over Rachel Reeves\u2019s family farm tax.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">However, cattle farmers have hit out at the plans, insisting that land used to raise their animals would not be suitable for growing plant-based items, such as lentils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Henry Graham, a Berkshire-based farmer who owns a mob of 400 cattle, told the Telegraph: \u201cThe idea of somebody ploughing up pasture to grow lentils is ludicrous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He insisted that chemicals used on lentils would be unable to be sprayed near water courses where cattle graze because it would simply be too wet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">According to figures from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, the number of Britons adopting a plant-based diet has started to level off.<\/p>\n<p>Worth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/politics\/labour-climate-change-push-british-farmers-stop-raising-cattle\"><strong>reading in full&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/donate\/\">Donate to The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Burnham\u2019s new government likely committed to Net Zero policy in farming \u2013 regardless of practical issues <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":328431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328433,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328429\/revisions\/328433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/328431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}