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.”
