What...? No, no, of course not one to extract UK citizens from Afghanistan!
One to destroy one allegedly-sick alpaca called Geronimo:
The doomed alpaca can count on an 'army willing to fight for his survival', Helen Macdonald added.
'We will form a ring of steel around Geronimo. It is now all-out war,' the 50-year-old said from her farm in Wickwar, Gloucestershire, yesterday.
Well, I wish you luck, Mrs Macdonald, but you won't be up against the likes of our woke Army top brass, who'd give in to the enemy before a shot was fired, and who can't even bring themselves to call them the enemy.
You'll be up against people who show steel and resolve aplenty when it looks like they could possibly be proven wrong::
The High Court judge's decision means Defra will not be compelled to investigate whether it holds data that suggests bTB tests can be unreliable in alpacas.
We couldn't have that, could we?
A Defra spokesman said: 'We are sympathetic to Miss Macdonald's situation – just as we are with everyone with animals affected by this terrible disease.'
I doubt that, frankly. There certainly doesn't seem to be much sympathy from other farmers, who are mostly taking the view that 'We lost our animals, so you should lose yours too'. Perhaps you should have fought for them like she has?
She should offer a bunch of pikey's some land, authorities won't go anywhere it then.
ReplyDelete"There certainly doesn't seem to be much sympathy from other farmers, who are mostly taking the view that 'We lost our animals, so you should lose yours too'. Perhaps you should have fought for them like she has?"
ReplyDeleteBecause farmers can't afford to have their farms locked down for animal movements for years on end while legal cases play out. If they can't move cattle on and off the holding (which they can't while under TB restrictions) then they will be unable to make a living. So the only way forward is to accept the slaughter of 'reactor' animals, and move on. This woman doesn't have that necessity, her animals are effectively pets.
"She should offer a bunch of pikey's some land, authorities won't go anywhere it then."
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"Because farmers can't afford to have their farms locked down for animal movements for years on end..."
If enough of them did it, though, and threatened food supplies, it wouldn't be 'years on end'. I hate to say this, but perhaps we should take lessons from the French...
"This woman doesn't have that necessity, her animals are effectively pets."
And are a different species to cows. So why will DEFRA not accept that maybe cow tests aren't effective?