SOME MORE THOUGHTS FROM PROTECT THE WILD BY CHARLIE MOORES

 

This is following an article posted by Protect the Wild from Charlie Moores.

MY OWN THOUGHTS ON THIS ARE:

The post is useful because it makes the point of highlighting what really needs tackling in our countryside and in our society in general. Firstly landowners and blood sports enthusiasts are well connected and have too much power. Secondly who  creates legislation but powerful people of the same ilk. Lastly it seems that governments intentions are not opposed to the ‘shootinghuntingclasses’ and the killing is allowed to go on.

The last piece, in bold, at the end of Charlie Moores post indicated the crux of the matter and the difficulty we have to oppose hunting. But it is not a lost cause.

Protect the Wild post follows so please read on;

As Protect the Wild's Charlie Moores has previously pointed out, the Royal Agricultural University's alumni include "some heavyweight estate owners and lobbyists for hunting and shooting." Moores continued:

"As well as actively being part of blood sports, alumni are well-placed to ensure the killing goes on... Foxes have actually never been classified as vermin, but it is legal to kill them all year around – and that’s down to landowners and farmers who make and pass legislation in the Houses of Commons and Lords. And the RAU can count on a raft of relatively recent graduates to allow the ‘fun’ to continue..."

Much like the Tory government, which claims to care about the conservation of the UK's wildlife while driving badgers towards local extinction and allowing water companies to destroy rivers, the university is keen to cultivate a facade of a reputation, stating to the public that it "[enables] communities locally, nationally and across the world to thrive in harmony with nature."

• The establishment's motto is Arvorum Cultus Pecorumque‘ - ‘Caring for the Fields and the Beasts’. But as the university repeatedly shows, its students and graduates are grave dangers to nature, not the guardians they want to depict themselves to be. While the university churns out graduates like the ones discussed here, Britain's wildlife will never be truly safe from harm.