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@(f)politics? wrote:
. . . . . so hundreds and thousand on differing weeks is perfectly accurate . . .
. . . not the main point of the thread, I know but no, no it’s not. It’s not even an approximate average. Sorry to go on, but bad maths is worse than bad grammar.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/animal-diseases/a-z/bovine-tb/
Here’s DEFRA’s info on the subject. 26,000 a year is a lot of cattle, but it’s not “hundreds of thousands every week” by a long chalk. Granted your post was sarcy f_pol, but your point was spoilt for me by the sarcasm and the exaggeration.
The reason for protecting badgers is not their ‘cuteness’. Bees, for example, are not cute in my mind, but essential to the ecosystem. Maybe badgers are useless appendages to nature that can be harmlessly discarded, but that is not being argued.
I just hope this isn’t another huge mistake. My gut instinct is pessimistic.
But seriously, as a species our farming of cattle is not natural in the sense of ‘wild’ but industrial. Much of what we do with cattle to support milk and beef production – forced gestation, prolonged milking, selective breeding, culling of resulting over-production of calves, castration of bulls, feeding on hormones and protein-rich food etc. has from time to time produced or fostered epidemics.
The consumption in quantity of beef products and milk in the west is largely cultural and fashionable as there are other sources of the nutrients they provide, some of which we avoid for reasons of culture and like so much else, we over-produce to satisfy our over-consumption.
To argue that badgers don’t give anything back because we don’t commercially exploit them is not sound. They will have a place in the ecosystem and the effect of removing them completely might well be catastrophic, but we wouldn’t know until too late.
We are papering over natural crises already such as the disappearance of bees, which we don’t know the reasons for. We should take that as a warning about further wholesale interference with species.
@rogue trader wrote:
i love badgers,they have been responsible for loads of my favourite films, just to name a few
the badger always rings twice
snow white and the 7 badgers
honey ive shrunk the badgers
midnight badger
throw badger from the trainim sure theres lots more?
Not to mention “Badger of Honour”
@momentaryloss wrote:
. . . Only a crime evidently if she could not be seen from a public place without a telesope or similar. . . .
Is that in British law, or French law?
but the gun was warm, so everyone was happy
@momentaryloss wrote:
Now let’s be really clear. . . . . Any more of this and they are going to start looking like spoiled, privileged children……..
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
Say it ain’t so!
Is it actually illegal? I thought the right to privacy in law mainly applies to the actions of the state.
