{"id":95368,"date":"2025-02-18T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/on-radio-i-was-called-a-lofty-idealist\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T10:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:38:26","slug":"on-radio-i-was-called-a-lofty-idealist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=95368","title":{"rendered":"On radio I was called a lofty idealist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>It is of all the insults that I have received, the one I am happiest about.<\/p>\n<p>It took place yesterday morning on Cape Talk with Lester Kiewit. You can click <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/capetalk-breakfast\/wednesday-panel-spotlight-on-intensive-livestock-f\">here to listen.<\/a>\u00a0I start speaking at 11.45. It was a discussion around the boat that docked and stunk out Cape Town last week with 19,000 cattle on board.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately Lester gave me a chance to have the last word. I talked about how South Africa could be fed regeneratively. I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmerangus.co.za\/2021\/06\/01\/how-regenerative-agriculture-can-feed-south-africa\/\">this blog on the subject<\/a> a few years ago. It is possible but not probable that we could be fed regeneratively.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore if we embraced regenerative agriculture we could be 2.83 times net zero if that is the existential threat that the media would like us to believe. You can read about this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmerangus.co.za\/2023\/06\/22\/the-climate-change-net-zero-issue-is-no-issue-if-we-all-start-farming-regeneratively\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Angus<\/p>\n<p>29 February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.farmerangus.co.za\/2024\/02\/29\/on-radio-i-was-called-a-lofty-idealist\/\">On radio I was called a lofty idealist.<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.farmerangus.co.za\">Farmer Angus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is of all the insults that I have received, the one I am happiest about. It took place yesterday morning on Cape Talk with Lester Kiewit. You can click here to listen.\u00a0I start speaking at 11.45. 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