Thursday 24 May 2012

Never Mind The Buzzards

Of course buzzards' nests should be destroyed in order to protect pheasants, which we rightly shoot in order to eat.

Unless you prefer broiler chicken and the products of sow crates to free range game bird and venison?

Or do some animals matter more than others, and within that do our foodstuffs matter less than those which would eat them in our stead?

You know, like chickens and sheep (along with the inhabitants of uneconomic hedgerows) mattering less than foxes...

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  1. "Of course buzzards' nests should be destroyed in order to protect pheasants, which we rightly shoot in order to eat."

    The trouble is we don't actually eat all of them - rather a lot of them are bulldozed into trenches.

    See John Stringers' letter in today's Daily Telegraph.

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