Had tears in my eyes

indeed they are G D you also sound a nice person

 

Thats nice of you to say so my friend. I look forward to many more chats.

 

I also

 

I almost never read your post macleaf.I had knots in my stomach and thought,no dont read it.but i did and im glad.

 

nice to read one of these stories that has a happy ending - so often they don't. Thanks for posting it, Macleaf.

 

Thanks for reading it my friend

 

We must include ourselves when it comes to killing seals. It is estimated that 5,000 seals per year are shot in British waters to protect fisheries and fish farms. Something to remember when you next buy cod and chips. Only one prosecution in the last 36 years and that was because a shotgun was used instead of a rifle. Not only do we shoot them, but many drown hopelessly tangled in nets and other debris.

BBC Wildlife Magazine

 

I hadn't realised that killing seals goes on in British waters, they have obviously kept it quiet

 

There will always be killing of our wild life,while man has this obsession in killing what he thinks is a threat to his lively hood as he attempts to make himself even richer.Man won't be happy until he has distroyed the planet...and himself :( :(

 

Yes indeed. They always do keep quiet. Cod is set to vanish from our seas very soon and some people are saying that there should be a total ban on cod fishing. Others are saying that we should carry on fishing for cod and carry out a MASSIVE seal cull next year instead.

The government is also intending to heavily cull badgers next year. They say that they infect cattle with bovine TB. Research shows that it is the other way around - cattle infect badgers with bovine TB. All such problems are caused by the way we keep animals in overcrowded, insanitory conditions. Bird flu started in the Far East where birds are kept in the most appalling conditions and sold at bird markets. Fortunately, bird fairs are going to be banned (temporarily) in Britain now.

Sorry for going on a bit, but animal welfare is something that makes me see red - particularly the awful things that are done to captive bears in India and China. I do have some sympathy for the people of Iceland and the Faroes because they have so little agricultural land and must farm the seas. I have no sympathy whatsoever for the fur trade and the sickoes that indulge in blood sports - hunting, shooting and fishing.

 

I heard on a TV news item that there is no need anymore to kill the sea life up in the Faroe Islands but that they do it to keep up some tradition which goes way back through the generations.With the modern day culture they have all the food shipped into them,they just need re-educating,like the toffs who go out to destroy foxes,but that is a road I don't want to go down today

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This makes me feel happy and pleased to be part of such an animal friendly forum.
Did you read the article about the team following a starving polar bear to film for TV (Was it for David Attenborough?). They saw it (didn't know if he or she) and saw that it was so weak it couldn't even catch a small seal. It was so weak it just curled up on an ice floe and waited to die. They debated as to whether they should provide some food or not as they felt they 'weren't really there' and decided to leave it. After reading this article about the whale and also about other such creatures responding to and giving life to humans in siuations of near death, how could they make that decision. After all it was only one feed we are talking about and then it would have resumed a normal life cycle.
I wonder if any of you would care to follow me in making a (respectful) protest to D. Attenborough through a letter to The Daily Mail to try to bring home a fact that you would think he was party to already?
Bless you all for caring. Ele7

 

This is an emotive subject with many facets, I have a badgers sett on the edge of my land my neighbour has a dairy herd the herd has been here since the turn of the last century and has NEVER EVER tested positive for TB, my neighbour is as happy as i am to have a badgers sett next to him the badgers do no harm i have trouble with foxes but thats for another time, there are too many people on this island and it is inevitable that if we continue down this self destruct road it will all blow up in our faces, I am constantly throwing people out of my filed where the badgers live some peopl have no respect for other peoples property just because iot is an ancient field it doesn't mean that all and sundry have carte blanche to intrude into it picking wildflowers chasing rabbits etc...

 

There's too many of us, full stop!
People that is.

 

Yep,Pete! We are pretty good at culling ourselves though. Hard rain gonna fall soon.