{"id":1502,"date":"2021-02-16T18:38:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T17:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2021-02-16T18:38:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T17:38:46","slug":"hotspot-reflections-pigshit-and-glyphosate-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/hotspot-reflections-pigshit-and-glyphosate-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotspot reflections: pigshit and glyphosate everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cattle farms where rice fields used to be, surrounded by maize and bulldozers flattening land, as well as combine harvesters and tractors.<\/li>\n<li>Pig, poultry or sheep farms in otherwise quiet places, where cattle trucks rush past the stroller seeking contact with nature<\/li>\n<li>And all that <strong>animal shit<\/strong>? It must go somewhere. Biogas plants? There are a handful in the region, and livestock units number in the thousands (at least). So again, where does the shit go?<\/li>\n<li>On the fields &#8230;\u00a0Into the water &#8230;\u00a0Up your nostrils<br \/>\nThose are just some of the direct effects; then there&#8217;s intensification of arable land to supply animal feed, widespread pesticide (glyphosate) use, loss of fallow, field margins, and overall landscape diversity<\/li>\n<li>Inevitably, we lose even more contact with nature, unless you see a glyphosate-soaked field of barley as nature.<br \/>\n<em>I don&#8217;t, and there are many more like me. Just now and then our voices are heard above the din.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>But we&#8217;re all too meek. Perhaps this is the world we inherit because of our conformity. Now I understand a little bit more: leave the world full of shit and let the meek take care of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This: Cattle farms where rice fields used to be, surrounded by maize and bulldozers flattening land, as well as combine harvesters and tractors. Pig, poultry or sheep farms in otherwise quiet places, where cattle trucks rush past the stroller seeking contact with nature And all that animal shit? It must go somewhere. Biogas plants? There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-oe","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}