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Grouse shooting damages the planet
Gamekeepers are burning the moors at an unprecedented rate to encourage the growth of new heather shoots as feed for grouse for people like Harry the Parasite to blast out of the sky and feel like real men. The burning threatens to release millions of tonnes of carbon locked into the peat bogs underpinning the moors. Where burning occurs, the hydrology changes and the peat is open to decomposition and erosion. This strips the moor of carbon as surely as setting fire to the Amazon rainforest. Yet Jeff Rooker, a keen bloodsports enthusiast yet inexplicably the government's Animal Welfare Minister, who is charged with overseeing the 2006 Animal Welfare Act, was reported in the Lancashire Telegraph as saying the following: Grouse moor management is an excellent example of a sustainable form of farming, balancing grazing and careful heather burning. In fact the government appear to be sewn into the pocket of the shooting industry; Alun Michael and Ben Bradshaw are both apologists for bird shooting as a 'sport', as is Martin Salter, the government parliamentary spokesman for shooting and fishing, who said 'We want to actively encourage people to take up the sports and to develop policies under which they can develop and prosper. Note they constantly stick shooting [rich man's sport] with fishing [poor man's sport] together to get as much support as possible for anything planned: as a defence against any criticism of shooting and the practices that are carried out to 'protect' the shooting moors for their prey birds; killing indiginous mammals and birds, particularly raptors, to keep the area clear for their soon-to-be-slaughtered sport birds - indiginous animals eat growths intended for pheasant and partridge. All the rehearsed rhetoric from Brown et al about reducing emissions is so much hot air, everything they do, from allowing the building of new roads and airport runways to Parliamentary junkets round the world and encouraging the wholesale slaughter of birds for 'sport', contributes to climate change and the destruction of a world fit for humans or other animals. While claiming to want to 'lead the world in climate action to reduce emissions', Brown illustrates in the next sentence that he hasn't a clue about the environmental catastrophe which is now only just round the corner. Increasingly violent weather events happen with increased frequency; southern Bangladesh was flooded last year to a depth of several metres and approx. 10,000 people drowned, as well as uncounted numbers of other animals. Italy followed soon after and was awash with mud and floodwater, the forest outside Rome burned last summer and there is nothing to stop the mudslides, as has been found countless times all over the world. It seems it takes our species a long time to learn really basic things. Must be because we're so smart that god made us like him. |
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