Some of their policies are pretty good.
I don't have much confidence they would have the ability to implement many of them, and the interview doesn't help with that.
That said, I don't think many people vote for them expecting them to win.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 17:14,
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I'm obviously sympathetic to a great deal of the Green's agenda, having worked in conservation for almost ten years
but a lot of it simply fucks me off completely. Lunatic things you would expect to be there on hard lefties list of loonie things like the promotion of vegetarian food, cuts to defence, unbanning membership of banned Islamic groups, spending our salaries for us through taxation, and generally lots of other things which remind me of all the worst bits of the hard left labour party in the 80s.
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 17:31,
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Seriously? You're going to lump together
defence cuts and promotion of vegetarian food?
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A Rory Borealis here under duress, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 20:48,
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Why yes
both are demented loonie left ideas, I thought I made that quite clear.
'Promoting' vegetarian food for a government means spending lots of tax payers money on that promotion which i'll be fucked if i'm voting for. Meat has been a stable of our diet for tens of thousands of years, is tasty, healthy, and will be become more expensive as a consequence of making vegetarian food cheaper. There is a big difference between junk food and good food, just because we live in a nation where so many have diets that are utter shite, you can't put that one eating meats door. Promoting healthy diets, not discriminate against part of it because you have an over sentimental view of herbivores that have evolved to be grazed upon.
Sort of thing
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 21:53,
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Yes you've explained the arguement about promoting vegetarian food quite well.
And people are entitled to disagree with defence cuts.
Lumping the two issues together?
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A Rory Borealis here under duress, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 22:02,
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Err
..because they both seem to be on the Green Party's agenda?
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 22:14,
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You still haven't explained why the two issues are both lunatic
and lumped together. Many people would agree with one and not the other for wildly different reasons
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A Rory Borealis here under duress, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 22:18,
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Because they are in my mind
but I sense because you're pushing the issue anything I type will be lost on you, and it's late, and I want to chill as I have an early start tomorrow, and have a cold
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 22:34,
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Lost on me
how politely patronising
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A Rory Borealis here under duress, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 22:37,
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I've had half my eye on the television on BBC4 about Russian cosmonauts for the past hour as well
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 22:59,
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I believe that a vegetarian diet has less environmental impact,
so I can see why a green group would want to encourage it for reasons other than just not killing animals.
Stuff like this:
www.livescience.com/22814-meat-eating-vegetarianism.html
(NB I have no idea how trustworthy that blog is, and global population would seem the real problem there)
Likewise, most people eat too much meat - a truly healthy diet would see a reduction for most people.
That said, as far as I can tell, their only policy related to vegetarianism states "The Green Party will ensure that high quality, nutritionally balanced vegetarian and vegan menu options are widely available and promoted in all public sector establishments such as schools, hospitals and care facilities", so their concern seems only for existing vegetarians rather than spending money on promotion.
It still seems an expensive promise, but it is one more concerned with healthy diets than promoting vegetarianism.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 22:18,
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Any environmental impact is because this planet is massively overpopulated
And if that's used as an argument what's going to happen when growing crops can't feed everyone, which will inevitably happen? The crunch is human population
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Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 22:32,
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Blasphemy. You can't eat too much meat!
On a serious note, you really cannot compare nutritional value of meat/meatless diet/their nutrition density thus the whole "equivalent/environmental impact" argument is moot.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 25 Feb 2015, 16:06,
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