There are those who gorge themselves on the products of sow crates and battery chicken farms, but who pick up their skirts in horror at hunting and shooting.
Those same people either say nothing about, or else positively approve of, the Common Fisheries Policy, which is opposed by only one of the three main parties, the only one that one is not in the Coalition. But they pick up their skirts in horror at whaling.
What, exactly,
is so horribly wrong with whaling, by which Japanese have been feeding themselves and their families since the twelfth century (as Norwegians have been doing since the ninth), while their Korean neighbours have been doing so for eight thousand years?
And why, at a push, is it more or
less all right for scientific research, but never, ever for food?
I have long thought that modern factory farming was much more inhumane than hunting. Most hunters try to end the suffering of the animal as quickly as possible.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I actually agree that some of the worst factory farming abuses should be curbed, although I am still not opposed to mass-scale meat production as it is probably essential to feeding large human societies.
I have no problem with real fur or animal testing either. Now that I think about it, how many of these folks who get tremendously angry over hunting and animal testing support human abortion? That is the really big question.
Indeed it is.
ReplyDelete"the Common Fisheries Policy, which is opposed by only one of the three main parties, the only one that one is not in the Coalition"
ReplyDeleteSo, in other words, opposed by the only party that will do nothing about it-since that is also the only party that refuses to even give the British people a vote on leaving the EU.
Opposing the CFP while being in the EU is like opposing prison food while living in Wormwood Scrubs.
Labour continue the grand tradition of the Tories- Eurosceptic in opposition, Europhile in power.
Wait and see.
ReplyDeletePerhaps an unfortunate choice of phrase, but you'll not remember why.