Hill Farming will End in Wales
{Hill Farming will End in Wales – Earth and Leaf editorial}
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Hill farming will end in Wales
Hill farming will end in Wales in time as eating habits evolve. We must continue to drive that evolution and look after the farmers at the same time. Time is up for specialised hill sheep breeds. Time is not up for the farmers and their families. Just transition will increase their incomes, improve the environment, stop extinctions and lock up carbon. What will happen? Mr Clubb concludes: “We have seen two very clear cases of transformation that have completely failed the workers of Wales: the communities of the coalfields, and the steel workers. There is no time to waste if we want to avoid another terrifying failure, but this time for the thousands of families that depend on the meat industries, and our rural and Welsh language society that depends on those families.”
Young people
He writes: “Eating patterns are gradually changing away from meat and towards alternative high-protein foods produced using plants or micro-mushrooms; 58% of the population have taken steps to reduce or stop eating meat, although some have resumed eating it.
“In Wales, 29% of the population have stopped eating meat, or eat less of it. Young people are much more likely to be vegetarians or vegans than older people – 24% of those aged 18-24 compared to 4% of those aged over 65. Hill farming will end in Wales as it is.”
“The price of alternative foods is an important factor, as it competes on price for the same buyers. After all, 44% of people believe that the price of alternative foods is currently too high. But where the price of meat is volatile, the price of food from plants falls quickly; in the Netherlands it has been cheaper than meat since 2022.
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