Comment on Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments
Zombie@feddit.uk 1 day agoAlmost as if he’s tackling multiple concerns at once.
youtube.com/shorts/HuOP2vEEz6Q
Allotments are fundamental for the feeding of our people and in tackling biodiversity loss. If you don’t have green fingers you may not be aware, but we’re currently in the midst of the largest mass extinction event since the dinosaurs.
Currently, human activities are driving a rapid decline in biodiversity, often referred to as the Holocene extinction or the sixth mass extinction. It was estimated in 2007 that up to 30% of all species could be extinct by 2050.[4] Habitat destruction—particularly for agriculture—is a primary driver of this decline.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity
This video from the WWF drives home the point.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ufiiFGdAl5E
But even if you don’t care about biodiversity loss, it is a necessary means for many people to feed themselves. About 1/3 of my fruit and veg intake is homegrown. Without it I would struggle to pay my bills, not to mention the mental health benefits of being out in the sun playing in the dirt.
Rayner can get to fuck. She’s a fucking liar who pretends to stand for the left of the Labour party and since getting into power has acted like a Tory. There’s a reason she’s been suspended from Unite.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Your reading comprehension leads some improvement because I never said I disagreed with it I just said it’s hardly the most pressing of issues and it isn’t.
As I am sure you know our primary source of food is not random allotments.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
It used to be. As recently S THE 1970s gardens and allotments were the source of the majority of grown food.
Supermarkets being the default is a very recent thing.
It was even common in the past post war period for green grocers to buy goods from local allotments growers.
Unfortunately the move to commercial production has done huge harm. In both product variety as allotment farmers tended to use more seed varieties then farmers do. But also in the use of steril crops.
All done purely to increase profits while reducing the diversity allowing crops to survive extra. Conditions.
Honestly if people cannot see how important such things are, they are not thinking fully,
Zombie@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It’s not like he brought it up out of the blue though, is it?
Maybe work on your own reading comprehension.
It’s in direct response to Angela Rayner selling off allotment land. Land that is deemed so important to the nation that it’s protected by law, and only sellable via ministerial sign off. Not even the scumbag Tories did this.
Plus, our primary source of food may well have to be allotments again soon. With farms failing due to years of monoculture and pesticides, coupled with climate change and a loss in biodiversity.
unsustainablemagazine.com/home-gardens-vs-farms-e…
It is normal in politics for opposition politicians to attack the actions of governing politicians. That is what Corbyn has done, he’s not suddenly got out of bed and decided today’s topic of conversation is allotments because he’s away down to his in the afternoon.