Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If we wanted to deal with food security, we would lean a lot more towards tillage because we can feed many more people through tillage than through beef. Beef is feeding the rich world but it is not feeding anything like the same numbers elsewhere. With the same resources that go into producing 1 kg of beef, we can produce 24 kg of food from tillage. Consequently, there is no comparison.

It suits the Minister's argument to make out that I am attacking the farmers. I was born on a 36 acre farm and I reared pigs for years. I had 500 pigs at one point.

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