How some farmers are breaking the rules on river pollution - but escaping prosecution

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  • @KOL630
    @KOL630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The Tory’s have allowed farmers to use previously banned substances to kill pests too so this inevitably ends up in the river. Terrible. Farming is important but it needs to be done responsibly and the government needs to enforce it.

    • @iangriffiths985
      @iangriffiths985 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The pollution in the video was not pesticide.

  • @tabazan9182
    @tabazan9182 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I used to appreciate Farmers, farm hands and those who have farmed their land for generations. It keeps you in the present moment much of the time. Mother Nature does that.
    Farmers must be called to account for this.
    Its the land, rivers, oceans and future generations that will pay the price for this.

    • @yellowgreen5229
      @yellowgreen5229 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Current farmers are just heritors of land stolen from British workers.

    • @Joeink100
      @Joeink100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Most of the time it's sewage plants doing this, those sewage treatment plants blame the farmers, some farms do it but the majority of lake pollution is sewage

    • @yellowgreen5229
      @yellowgreen5229 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Joeink100 that isn't true, many farms produce more waste than small towns because of nitrate fertiliser and animal agriculture,

  • @rr-jp7kg
    @rr-jp7kg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    When I lived in the UK I used to hear about increasing levels of pollution in the rivers. Apparently it is getting worse and will get worse as the UK population continues to increase. The government can't do and won't do anything to stop it

    • @dontnoable
      @dontnoable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *as the UK population of farmed animals grows

    • @Boo-pv4hn
      @Boo-pv4hn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s not they can’t it’s literally they won’t, they choose to let them get away with it. We need more pressure on the government when my mum grew up she said you could find axelotyl regularly. Now we just see birds the occasional squirrel and the odd hedgehog oh and ALOT of foxes.. about the only thing that’s prospered by a lot of peoples throw trash everywhere attitude. The reality is we’ve already killed of so many species and ALOT more are critically endangered or endangered. There need to be world wide controls on plant gathering from the wild and wildlife collecting for research or sale.

    • @toriesdontgettazered7464
      @toriesdontgettazered7464 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not in Scotland

    • @Sleepflowrr
      @Sleepflowrr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ?

  • @JanKopanski
    @JanKopanski 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How much damage can Truss do to the UK as she was the Environment secretary back then...

  • @hanselmansell7555
    @hanselmansell7555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who cares? Certainly not our 'politicians' 😡

    • @Boo-pv4hn
      @Boo-pv4hn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They may not but every day people do..like those doing the gathering and the research.a lot of us are trying to do our part including home growing fruit and veg and communal allotments people taking it upon themselves to make communal gardens more wildlife friendly . Our local town in recent years has been planting hundreds of trees. Re sowing wild native plant seeds. Leaving grass patches to rewild. People making home grown honey. Housing battery hens to have eggs. The reality is we can only do so much.

  • @vole12
    @vole12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My fishing season was stuffed thanks to sewage . United Utilties the culprits .

    • @portcullis5622
      @portcullis5622 ปีที่แล้ว

      United Utilities are a bunch of greedy, irresponsible, selfish c***s and should be disbanded.

  • @telesamgram1318
    @telesamgram1318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The country who gave the world Sir David also gave us Liz Truss. What a disgrace!

  • @soton5teve
    @soton5teve 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Election now, then you can separate the business & environment agency, that was put together to de-tooth the environment agency

  • @dr_ned_flanders
    @dr_ned_flanders 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    (singing) A good brook these days is hard to find. Clean water, not the polluted kind. A good brook these days is hard to find. So please be gentle with the water.

  • @kaymish6178
    @kaymish6178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    We have the same problem in New Zealand. The farmers are climate vandals the world round. Farmers in Canterbury have poisoned their own drinking water with nitrate pollution, and so many rivers have become purified.

    • @riklangham6739
      @riklangham6739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      putrefied ?

    • @user-wickedflower
      @user-wickedflower 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bullshit, we farmers have to fence off any waterways on our farms, for years. As a British person that moved to NZ I know both sides & England is way worse. The bays have the water tested every week & only after a high tide the levels mean no swimming for a few days. Tell the truth not fear mongering.

  • @MonsterMacLLC
    @MonsterMacLLC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If some crops are better at root retention than others, could/shouldn’t we be staggering the crop rotation a bit on species that could accelerate preservation?

    • @ascgazz
      @ascgazz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Try watching the video 😂😂😂😂

    • @dontnoable
      @dontnoable 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What about farmed animals, and all the food that's grown to feed those millions of animals every year in the UK alone?

    • @ascgazz
      @ascgazz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dontnoable what about them??

    • @Boo-pv4hn
      @Boo-pv4hn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dontnoable that’s majorly a problem with the retailers requesting way over what they need.

    • @dontnoable
      @dontnoable 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Boo-pv4hn The most comprehensive analysis to date of the damage farming does to the planet was undertaken by Oxford University, published in the journal Science. The study created a huge dataset based on almost 40,000 farms in 119 countries and covering 40 food products that represent 90% of all that is eaten. It assessed the full impact of these foods, from farm to fork, on land use, climate change emissions, freshwater use and water pollution (eutrophication) and air pollution (acidification). It's farming animals that's the problem. And the scientists involved said the single most impactful thing a person can do is go vegan.

  • @calderarecords
    @calderarecords 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There are many solutions but it requires funding, but the Water companies prefer profit to progress & the Government are petrified of upsetting people with such exuberant funds at their disposal.
    "Pollution is the physical expression of corruption."

  • @t-rex4211
    @t-rex4211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thiss iss a ssseroiusss problem. Companiess sshould be prothecuted

  • @tropics8407
    @tropics8407 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Support and work with your farmers. If GB is not self sufficient and not producing and exporting food then you are importing thus bleeding away your country’s productive capacity. 🤔🤔

  • @mikeharvey9811
    @mikeharvey9811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Extinction Rebellion should bottle this water and deliver it to parliament, I’d deliver one to my mp and my daughter would deliver one to Mogg. Barb

  • @Boo-pv4hn
    @Boo-pv4hn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is this really a surprise? It’s sad we’ve had to wait till 2022 for it to be looked into and made news

  • @charlesflouvat1829
    @charlesflouvat1829 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How many voters go fishing every week?

    • @234cheech
      @234cheech 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      many

    • @aferalunicorn1832
      @aferalunicorn1832 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Probably less, because the fish are dead

    • @rr-jp7kg
      @rr-jp7kg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd guess about 2.

    • @rr-jp7kg
      @rr-jp7kg 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's okay, never fear, the NHS is here.

  • @shanehumberstone5262
    @shanehumberstone5262 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Accountability is well overdue for any polluters

  • @manufacturingdissent666
    @manufacturingdissent666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    and if the government isnt policing this, will they police fracking with the same rigor

  • @ascgazz
    @ascgazz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice reminder that Rory Stewart was a supportive Tory to Truss for a while once.

    • @pauln6803
      @pauln6803 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was in the mould of Theresa May: a party loyalist...
      Until the party was no longer loyal to him.

  • @janjan-dd4wv
    @janjan-dd4wv 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Farmers are high polluters in other ways. Slurry and slurry tankers, diesel powered tractors also pollute the air and our lungs

  • @234cheech
    @234cheech 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    its greed thats what it comes down tooo sick greed

    • @iangriffiths985
      @iangriffiths985 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you mean overpopulation in the UK means we need a lot of food then yes, the country is greedy in wanting to eat. Or if you mean farmers are paying a grand a ton for fertiliser to let it run off in to rivers then not I can assure you that's not because they're greedy.

  • @eelm2079
    @eelm2079 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it's crazy I'd put this problem at everyone's top3-5 issues in the country but government and people are too busy bickering about which parties better

  • @drumminslife
    @drumminslife 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What are the compounds that are polluting rivers but good for the plants Dave is growing? (Nitrates, at least, are mentioned at one point.)

    • @MrBoggins1234
      @MrBoggins1234 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nitrates, phosphates, Potassium, lithium, human excrement (via water treatment works) chicken offal and it's bacteria. All of which poisons riverlife and humans . The more one looks into this the more ridiculously myopic we as humans are when conflicted business men, supported by the most damaging element of the conservative party justify, what a single business, or market, does for it's owners dividends and capital growth.

    • @adrianthoroughgood1191
      @adrianthoroughgood1191 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's not the chemicals themselves that are poisonous. Fertiliser, both synthic and natural (manure), run from the field where it is needed into the river where it isn't. The fertiliser feeds algae growth and it's the algae that's harmful.

    • @drumminslife
      @drumminslife 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adrianthoroughgood1191 Huh the video makes it sound like there are things that are toxic to humans (or mammals and fish) getting into the water and that the field crops can absorb those.
      The Potassium, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus chemicals/compounds used as fertilizer aren't as toxic to humans per particle as some of the things we put in our own water supply (such as Flouride and Chlorine).

  • @p-james
    @p-james 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How will this be blamed on the EU?

  • @martinobrien7110
    @martinobrien7110 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The River Lee stinks to high heaven.

  • @ianmangham4570
    @ianmangham4570 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    River rother in Chesterfield smells like SEWAGE

  • @exme3814
    @exme3814 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:12-0:20

  • @hanselmansell7555
    @hanselmansell7555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ahhhhh....water companies, again.... 💩💦#privatisation

  • @toriesdontgettazered7464
    @toriesdontgettazered7464 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Should not have voted for Brexit that way UK government and farmers wouldve had regulations to follow for the good of the environment ...

  • @shanehumberstone5262
    @shanehumberstone5262 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I and many others pay the environment agency a lot each year to use our boats on rivers,they can’t even afford to keep the rivers fully operational for use,so where is all the money actually going

  • @iangriffiths985
    @iangriffiths985 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Newman: bUt wHo cAn wE bLaMe.

  • @shaunstracey-kemp8210
    @shaunstracey-kemp8210 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did this liz truss

  • @JohnnyMotel99
    @JohnnyMotel99 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pollution is good for the GDP! /s

  • @betabenja
    @betabenja 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    brexit

  • @spitfirered
    @spitfirered 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I Don't Think This Is The Farmers, It's Big Corporations causing All This Damage, This Is Another Way To Stop Farming And If You Believe This Story, Then You Will Starve If You Don't Do Something About It, You Know Media Sticks Up For The Big Guys But Not For Those Who Try To Keep The Food Chain Going!

  • @Waltzhybrid92
    @Waltzhybrid92 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @danhurley6152
    @danhurley6152 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    There are solar farms in my area causing serious run off problems into the river the water runs straight off acres of glass basically onto neighbouring arable feilds then on down to the river , the environment agency have built bunds along ditches last year to try and hold and slow the water down from washing the nitrates off the farm land

    • @charlesflouvat1829
      @charlesflouvat1829 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Farmer's have been saying that there was no rain this year 🙄

    • @charlesflouvat1829
      @charlesflouvat1829 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Farmer's said that there wasn't enough rain this year 🙄

  • @mickmulcahy6851
    @mickmulcahy6851 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    He’s Kevin what I like to do he doesn’t

  • @12bigredd
    @12bigredd 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    lol yeah lets look at the little people not the big companies doing 10 times worse lol

  • @moussaouiahmed
    @moussaouiahmed 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ..........................................AM

  • @tonychicas5316
    @tonychicas5316 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You guys going kill all your fish 🐟....

  • @soton5teve
    @soton5teve 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The causes are near by businesses, maybe show them, with a "well the fish are alive, and the river is fine here, but just passed this business, it's dead.

    • @dominospizza4386
      @dominospizza4386 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you think the businesses would fail if they were forced to be more environmentally considerate?

  • @Will111ism
    @Will111ism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    #Propaganda ☆

    • @Will111ism
      @Will111ism 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @You Tube don't be jealous

  • @sameaulahad2824
    @sameaulahad2824 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How can you say you love your country when you do this much damage to it?

    • @robertskolimowski7049
      @robertskolimowski7049 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My sentiments exactly, however, that's how many interpret capitalism - striving to make money no matter the cost whatsoever, ethics?, what ethics?, sad😔

    • @sameaulahad2824
      @sameaulahad2824 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robertskolimowski7049 to much of capitalism replied on the other person actually giving. Not just one party taking

  • @AntonioMarino5763
    @AntonioMarino5763 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Uk happy fish🙌🏻

  • @234cheech
    @234cheech 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    all farm lands felds that rivers run along should bee took then that land put back for the wildlife thats the thing thats needed

    • @iangriffiths985
      @iangriffiths985 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah and feed fewer people, good idea.

    • @dontnoable
      @dontnoable 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iangriffiths985Farming animals needs to come to an end. It takes up so much in terms of resources like food, water, landspace and encroachment on wildlife and pollutes and kills waterways