Re: Animal rights

According to the opalescent prose of Jenny M Benson
<jmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :

>In message <$XNPGzBmwIDDFwoS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, George Middleton
><gzorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>Now that we have taken care of the fox perhaps it is time to protect
>>all the other animals that do not actually have to suffer or die for us.
>
>AIUI there has been no decrease in the number of foxes dispatched since
>the current temporary ban on hunting came into force.

So all those fears expressed by the Countryside Alliance on behalf of
sheep and chicken farmers were groundless after all.

--
Stephen <http://wenlock.blogspot.com/>

Into my heart an air that kills from yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills, what spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
.

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