Matthew Cawood
muddygreen.bsky.social
Matthew Cawood
@muddygreen.bsky.social
agriculture+environment, writing+photograpy
Excellent, thank you. Heigh-ho, it's off to Abbeys I go.
June 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
No Australian outlet?
June 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I've seen that often with Australia's Welcome Swallows. I interpreted it as playing. Some species of birds seem to spend a lot of time playing, and swallows seem to be the playful type.
May 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
True. Although corporations have only recently recognised the greenwashing potential of what had formerly been farmer-based movements.
April 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
All those trends introduced new ideas and perspectives on land management to new generations of farmers, and they all had/have value. The mistake, I think, lay in making them each 'this thing' instead of being a suite of principles that can be revised in the light of new knowledge and circumstances.
April 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Australian red meat producers, also with no discernible subsidies, also doing quite well out of the US. www.mla.com.au/news-and-eve...
Strong demand for Australian red meat continues in US | Meat & Livestock Australia
Lamb exports reach new highs, along with beef exports being the highest since December 2019.
www.mla.com.au
March 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
...which is not the case with plant-only systems or lab-grown 'food'.
February 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I'm glad you're doing the work you're doing, but we're exchanging across a deep divide. I'm from a pastoral culture where you eat your sheep and cattle because that's what the land gives you. If you can give back to the land, as @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is doing, then you have a virtuous cycle...
February 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
There should be no place for gratuitous cruelty to animals. There is a place for a more indigenous view of our place in nature, in which we are embedded in life-creates-life cycles, rather than sitting outside it eating lab-grown sludge.
February 25, 2025 at 6:42 AM
There’s a lot of nuance between meatflakes.

Some care intensely about sustaining and enriching life - eg @herdyshepherd.bsky.social To do that in agriculture, you need animals, managed with care and respect. No animals = more diesel, more chemicals, less biodiversity.
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Yes please
February 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Looking forward to this! I've been intrigued by Matthiessen since reading The Snow Leopard in Nepal on a tissue-paper pirate edition. A man who chose his own paths in life and work.
January 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
And equating any ag that is not hi-input hi-output with the ag of yesteryear is making a false equivalence.
December 14, 2024 at 4:41 AM