Revolting. And please remember the "justification", which is the justification for mass slaughter of this kind the world over:
To protect livestock.
Why must the natural world have to give way, across so much of the planet, to cattle and sheep?
To protect livestock.
Why must the natural world have to give way, across so much of the planet, to cattle and sheep?
https://twitter.com/wildearthguard/status/1358558662399197184
In the UK, we've wiped out our larger predators, but our wildlife is still being slaughtered, at the behest of the same industry. 
Even moles are massacred, for fear that they might spoil cattle feed.
These among the costs of the pasture-fed meat (and milk) our food writers fetishise and our farming organisations insist is "green".
Others costs include greenhouse gas emissions even higher than those of intensively-raised meat, and a massive land-take.
Others costs include greenhouse gas emissions even higher than those of intensively-raised meat, and a massive land-take.
A phrase used repeatedly in the conservation literature is "wildlife-human conflicts".
But when you unpack it, you discover that most of them are actually wildlife-livestock conflicts.
But when you unpack it, you discover that most of them are actually wildlife-livestock conflicts.
I once had a conversation with a North American conservationist, who told me he liked to eat ranch beef.
"But what about all the predators that get killed?"
"Well, I try not to think about that."
"But what about all the predators that get killed?"
"Well, I try not to think about that."
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