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