Re: What's wrong with deer hunting


"Malcolm Kane" <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In message <1129194806.6944.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, BAC
> <casswalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >
> >"Malcolm Kane" <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> In message <1129105992.17716.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, BAC
> >> <casswalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >> >
> >> >"Malcolm Kane" <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> >> In message <jf1ok1dvsdgjhdhemhsgiaerv8tpgnku48@xxxxxxx>,
> >> >> amacmil304@xxxxxxx writes
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>But after it has eaten all the food in the area, i.e. farmers
crops
> >> >whether
> >> >> >>they are for cattle feed or human consumption.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Not if the crops are protected.
> >> >> >
> >> >> I asked before but didn't see your answer :-(
> >> >>
> >> >> Could you offer a few thoughts on this suggestion and the dwindling
> >> >> world resources?
> >> >
> >> >Which dwindling world resources are they? Has world food production
> >reduced
> >> >over the past century or so? Fish stocks have declined, true, but I'm
not
> >> >sure agricultural output has.
> >> >
> >> I was particularly thinking of the demand on resources if Angus got his
> >> way and all fields were surrounded by 12 foot high fences of (probably
> >> sheep) netting.
> >>
> >> Lots of mining smelting etc. would ensue and he seems totally oblivious
> >> of any harm this may cause not to mention the speeding up of the loss
of
> >> resources.
> >
> >Yes, there would obviously be an energy and resources cost in the
> >manufacture, installation and maintenance of upgraded fencing. Equally
> >obviously, there would be energy and resources costs in the manufacture
of
> >equipment used in an effective culling process, and in the training,
> >deployment and supervision of the personnel involved in it.
>
> I suspect strongly that the effect would be greatly against fences and
> in favour of the culling.

That depends. Obviously, it would be cheaper, for an individual landowner,
to have the state finance (or enforce) a nationwide culling campaign than it
would for him to fence off his vulnerable crop. If the cost of
fencing/culling were to outweigh the probable increase in income from the
crop over the period of effectiveness of the measures, it would be daft to
do either. Pest control isn't viable unless the income gained by doing it
outweighs the cost involved.

Better, then, perhaps, to roll with the punches and 'ranch' deer :-)

>
> >
> >Agriculture and silviculture would be far more efficient if there were no
> >wildlife 'competitors' seeking to exploit the same land, that should go
> >without saying. Those engaged in agriculture and/or silviculture always
have
> >and probably always will need to take action to protect those vulnerable
> >crops they choose to produce. It's up to them to decide on the most cost
> >effective means of production.
>
> Which almost certainly is the status quo.

Quite so. And probably always will be, with national 'emergency' exceptions
such as SVD, F & M, and bird flu.


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