Fairlie supports 'the land belongs to oomans' group. He insists that people should be allowed to move back into the countryside to promote organic, free range farming. He's a carnivore who protests on behalf of another Animal slaughterer, "When Jill Delaney applied for permission to put up a shed for her free range chickens three years ago, she was rudely rebuffed. The right to put up any agricultural building is a question of wealth: it is unconditionally available only to those who own 12 acres or more, a sizeable holding by the standards of most European countries. .. a national planning policy which could hardly have been better designed to prevent peasant farming from working efficiently in Britain. The policy of zoning, which divides rural land into two distinct zones, agricultural and develpment .. Agricultural land is worth about £1,500 per acre while the price of development land is 50-100 times as much .. As the policy of zoning comes under scrutiny in the next few years, so there will be questions raised about the pessimistic assumptions which lie behind it: is all human development intrinsically harmful to the environment? Is it utterly impossible to establish standards whereby people can live work and build in the countryside without degrading it. Do we really need to shepherd all but an elite into suburban estates and sunrise industries so that they may amble round a spotlessly managed country park on Sundays. The answer to these questions is, of course, "no". Recently, permission was given for a group of underground houses to be built on greenbelt land in Nottinghamshire. The project involves the planting of over 3,000 trees and the establishment of a fish-farming pond and small scale food production - and, one may imagine, a chicken-house."[26]

Oliver tickell was incensed that simon fairlie and his crew weren't allowed to slaughter Animals. The secretary of state for the environment, john gummer, overruled an earlier decision by the planning inspector to give the occupation of a 40 acre permacultural site in somerset three years' trial planning permission, "Thanks to your personal intervention in the planning process, a unique experiment in the sustainable development of the English countryside is to be brought to a premature end. I am writing of Tinkers Bubble, a 40 acre landholding on Ham Hill (sick) in Somerset, where eight adults and four children have made their home for 18 months. The land is ideal for human habitation. Three quarters of the area is wooded providing timber, fuel and shelter; and after decades of neglect the woodland is crying for sympathetic management (clearly woods can't look after themselves without oomans, ed). A start has been made on the pruning of 1,000 apple trees under which graze sheep and a Dexter cow. Higher up, rare-breed pigs live in the open air, fattening up on damaged fruit and kitchen scraps."[27] John gummer's activities during the bse crisis can only be deplored but as far as this decision is concerned he's acted with judicious concern for the environment.

Planterose is a back to the lander who supports the vast urbanization of the scottish highlands. Unfortunately, he also supports the exploitation of Animals. He demands a vast increase in the exploitation and slaughter of livestock Animals, "Domestic stock might include Cattle .. there would be Sheep .. with breeds producing good wools for local spinning and clothes manufacture. It would include free range Pigs, Ducks, geese and other Fowl suitably combined on some small Forest-farm units."[28] On the positive side he wants to reintroduce many of the Wildlife species which once used to roam the highlands, "Other large herbivores (besides Reindeer) might be introduced and managed as wild resources too. The once native Elk would seem to be a good candidate."[29] But he advocates this reintroduction not because he believes in Biodiversity or Animal freedom but primarily because he wants to extend the range of meat products available to the modern consumer, "In contrast to the extreme paucity of wild game taken from the land today, the great Wood would yield up a much increased range, quantity and quality of Animal products managed by local communities to supply food, in the first place, to themselves."[30] This is clearly a conventional oomanistic attitude towards Animals and Wildlife. It's a pity that Animal murderers like planterose can't be hunted as a game ooman.

"Helen browning's 1,300 acre dairy, pig and grain farm near swindon, on the oxfordshire-wiltshire border, is a flagship of the organic movement with a £1 million turnover on the farm and another £1 million on its meat business. Only 800 of brutland's 100,000 farmers are organic, farming only 0.3% of the farming area. Organic farming, now defined under e.u. law, bans chemical fertilisers and pesticides and uses rotations, mixed cropping and fertility building by using leguminous crops rather than artificial nitrogen. Animals raised organically, without systematic use of antibiotics .."[31]

Charlie pye-smith and chris hall oppose the intensive rearing of livestock Animals but widsh to replace it with free range Animal exploitation; "On welfare grounds alone, the intensive rearing of farm animals must be abolished. In the long term, the mixed farm, where 'corn and horn' complement one another, is the most efficient system, and the least damaging to the ecology of the soil. The mixed farmers will return all manure to the land, they will rotate their crops, they will use straw, and they will grow some of the feed required for their stock."[32] They want .. "a countryside in which both human and wildlife will prosper. Where more people work on the land. Where everyone can wander freely. Where the animals which end up on our plates are decently kept and decently killed."[33]

Page condemns the european union for preventing diseased meat from being exported across the world .. "successive british governments, tory and labour, kowtowed to the brussels eurocrats imposing ridiculous bans and restrictions on British meat."[34]

Many of those who protest about factory pharming aren't Animal rightists who want the total end to the exploitation of Animals but rural greens who want to take over responsibility for exploiting Animals. There isn't going to be any relief from Animal slaughter if organic farmers come marching in - they're just going to institute a new form of caring slaughter.