What is there to be said about the disgustingly cruel policy of badger slaughtering, the Tory's are keen to implement. A cull that has no scientific backing but is being implemented, it would appear, on behalf of the wealthy landowners, The Countryside Alliance and the NFU ( it's all about votes, methinks), who, it seems, would rather destroy one of Britain's best loved mammals rather than put their hands in their pockets and utilise a vaccine.
Lets be honest. Wealthy landowners, farmers and Tory's want to slaughter badgers for profit!
Rather than keep cattle in less intensive conditions and let them see grass for once in their lives the farmers would rather keep the costs down and pack cattle into intensive unhygienic conditions where disease is rife, and save a buck, so they can trade up to the latest 4x4. The farmer will cry, but what about the cows that contract TB and have to be slaughtered. As the figures below show they are just crocodile tears.
Let us not forget that farmers live on benefits, although they like to call them subsidies, but they are state benefits. It interesting how the steel industry, car industry,mining industry, and ship building industries were allowed to go to the wall, destroying thousands of working class lives and communities, because they were considered unprofitable, yet an industry such as farming is kept afloat with millions in taxpayers money being ploughed into it every year just to keep the farmers living the life of luxury they have become accustomed to. And now the greedy bas****s want to slaughter a beautiful iconic creature loved by the majority of the nation for profit.
If we truly live in a free market enterprise then every business should have to stand or fall depending on it's own performance and not depend on state handouts. The hypocrisy is stinking. If the farmers can't cope independently then let them fail. That's capitalism! Red in tooth and claw. Like nature!
Bovine TB is responsible for the killing of roughly 11,000 cows annually,The corresponding figures of cows killed for other reasons are as follows. Dairy cows killed because they contracted mastitis (an infection of the udder) – 51,000; cows killed because they were not in calf – 75,000; cows killed because they were lame – 25,000; cows who simply died on farms – 24,000; cows killed because they got too old – 21,000.
As I've said. It's all about profit. Animal welfare has nothing to do with it. Money! Money! money!
A Race to the Bottom.
The Tory's have said that the current examination methods are a race to the bottom. I treat what they say with a degree of seriousness, as, considering most of the current cabinet were educated at private schools, I am happy to bow to there superior knowledge on the subject of racing to the bottom. Yikes! here comes Thrasher!
The Royal Couple.
I've have not seen the photograph of the Royal Couple and William on the balcony. Like many people I'm not really bothered, but if the royals keep banging on about it there's a possibility, come the end of the week, that I might be the only person on the planet who hasn't seen them.
I hope Lord Linley paid for that chateau with his own money and not taxpayers money from the Civil List.
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