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It’s the alpacalypse for Geronimo – politicalbetting.com
It’s the alpacalypse for Geronimo – politicalbetting.com
Geronimo is EXECUTED: Police clash with animal rights activists as Defra officials drag alpaca away https://t.co/gHMRIRkYwU pic.twitter.com/cnYJWCShSx
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And if they are not rehoused, they'll get the Geronimo treatment - or rather the alpacolypse: the real one aka Goyaałé lived a lot longer after the relevant state got him into its claws.
https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1432720998873411586?s=19
But it is a good pun.
Because sure as fuck 40% of the population ain't vegetarian.
Well you see it is caused by PB thread header headlines being too long, so we're having to display pith in the headline.
Exodus 20:24
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings, thy sheep and thine oxen.
And almost as bad, the wrong continent.
Quetzalcóatl, surely preferable ?
There must be some weird interaction between mammals, dinner, and pets which none of us can make sense of.
I can now see the argument about the dangers of having a foreign born parents.
For the more finicky, I don't see why puppy meat isn't OK. It doesn't harm the Koreans. Perhaps we should have designer puppies bred for eating purposes?
When I said the BBC had reported it was killed she was not at all happy with the BBC for their description, as putting it to sleep is the respectful description of this unfortunate situation
I very much doubt it will have any adverse effect on public opinion
And I've never met a nice South African.
(Chorus).
But within reason, yes.
(There's a great scene in Scott Pilgrim versus the World with the Vegan Police. "Chicken isn't vegan?")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgEmxGL1JvQ
"Labour leader Keir Starmer backs decision to kill alpaca Geronimo
When asked if the Government’s stance was right, he added: “I think there’s no alternative, sadly."
“I do actually understand why emotions are so high as they would be with farmers as well who, on a not-irregular basis, have to lose animals that are very valuable to them.”"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-alpaca-geronimo-death-b1901049.html
Of course in some US states they still 'put to sleep' human murderers and in some parts of the world state sanctioned executions are rather worse than that
... or perhaps Leviticus 11:4 ?
Of course if you were a shark or a tiger or an anaconda or a crocodile a human life would not be worth more anymore, it could still be your lunch regardless
But the daily mail is a lost cause anyway
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It was called Tofu. It looked like congealed snot and was tasteless. I hear there's people in the UK who eat it on a regular basis. Chacun son gout, as the French say, and for good reason.
I have a Korean friend in Vancouver, and with him been taken to a number of locals places on the West coast. Not a clue what was being said, often not sure what was been ordered, but great food.
So culling is a possible solution *but* it has to be in areas with tightly defined geographical boundaries that the badgers can't or won't cross. It's fine to shoot out badgers in the Forest of Dean, where they won't cross the rivers or the M50, but not a lot of use on say, the Wiltshire Downs.
Which means while culling badgers would be helpful in some areas, it's not the only solution and we have to keep looking for that. (It also explains incidentally why badger groups in the Forest of Dean were in favour of culling, surprising though many people find it.)
Vaccinating badgers would be the solution but that's not quite there yet. The trick is to find a way to transmit it to the newborn cubs before their parents infect them.
Excessive sentimentality about animals is how we arrive at nonsense situations like the Nowzad airlift, or otherwise sensible people wasting tens of thousands that they can likely ill afford to part with in legal fees trying to save a diseased alpaca from being shot, in the first place.
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who appear on this data to be the only people fit to be warders in the asylum.
Using the sources *you* selected, here is a scatter chart of birth rates against religiosity for the fifteen largest European countries.
Using your own data sources, it literally shows exactly the opposite of what you claim. Higher religiosity correlates with lower birthrates.
Edit to add: that dot in the top right, that's Romania that is. You took the single biggest outlier, and claimed it was trend.
"If it was tasteless (which it more or less is) why so disgusted ?"
Once thinking it could be snot, there's no ignoring it. I have my principles, you know. I'll eat horse happily, even if I find it a little 'rich'. But I can be a finicky bastard at times. They would soon disappear if I were starving.
They are divisive, unworkable and expensive and the Liberal Democrats will oppose them.
https://twitter.com/EdwardJDavey/status/1432735554794307591?s=20
Have you never seen little lambs gamboling about a field without a care in the world, every now and again stopping to nibble at the grass, rubbing up against each other for companionship, happy in the knowledge they have their whole lives ahead of them?
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Yes, I had exactly that experience and resolved never to eat lamb again. Awkwardly, in my current job we advise that it's often more humane to eat lamb and beef than chicken, because they on many farms they live reasonable lives outdoors and chickens generally have pretty hellish lives. Just eating less of meat generally is undoubtedly a good idea, from both humane and climate change perspectives.
Of the top 3 nations by global birthrate for example ie Niger, at 6.8, Somalia at 5.9 and Congo at 5.8, Niger and Somalia have 100% of their population saying religion is important to them and Congo has 94% saying religion is important to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_total_fertility_rate
The bottom nation by birthrate ie South Korea at 0.8, has only 43% of their population saying religion is important to them
Got it.
Have you scatter plotted the world and run a linear regression? If not, you are literally just making up numbers and claiming they match your existing views.
"Rabies remains a major public health concern in Afghanistan. Although the disease is present in many wild animals, most cases in humans are caused by dog bites."
You don't need a bite, even a lick of gratitude will do the trick. If this Farthing starts frothing at the mouth and making wild statements - it will be kinder to have him 'put to sleep'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9938293/amp/Pen-Farthing-praises-British-troops-helped-bring-170-cats-dogs-UK.html?__twitter_impression=true
'Bodyguard sodomised by Banana.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan_Banana#Sodomy_charges_and_imprisonment
Good news ahead of the new term and return to more normal habits this month.
Tho cases surging in Scotland, where schools returned two weeks ago
https://twitter.com/Smyth_Chris/status/1432736831548928002?s=20
Although its far from clear that schools are behind Scotland's surge in cases...
This is the perfect story for the media.
You completely ignore the fact the largest growth in global population is in Africa with over 90% religiosity generally and instead compare the largest 15 European nations which are all largely secular and generally under 50% religiosity and all in population decline.
There is not a single European nation in the top 50 nations who say religion is important to them and there is not a single European nation in the top 50 nations by birthrate either
The government is being threatened with legal action over its failure to give visas to a female judge and a female MP from Afghanistan
Both women are still in Afghanistan and are being assisted by a team of lawyers in Britain who are acting for free (“pro bono”.)
https://twitter.com/BBCDanielS/status/1432688446271889408?s=20
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9943067/Is-D-Day-Geronimo-Police-finally-arrive-alpacas-farm.html
Probably wouldn't do any good, but there's a project at least for some industrious hack to get his or her teeth into.
"His animals are all vaccinated."
Thanks, but if I were a journalist, I'd probably ignore that.
Doggies vs darkies.
And I'll have a pizza.
Shall I remind you?
We were talking birth rates. And you said for birth rates to rise (and we were talking about the DEVELOPED world), we'd need to see a rise in religiosity.
And yet, in the developed world, there is (let's be generous here) no correlation between religiosity and birth rates.
So you're now bringing in African birth rates.
Do you think that:
(a) High African birthrates are the result of education and poverty
or
(b) The result of them believing in God
Tulips....
I assumed high birthrates were also a consequence of high infant mortality.
Though I don't think I could afford the child support.
I don't know that Sir Keir is useless and out of his depth - if he were PM he probably would do a competent enough job as far as I can judge. I just think LotO's have to have a certain something to usurp PM's, and he hasn't got it. So he is probably useless and out of his depth as a LotO, but counter intuitively wouldnt be as a PM
You could say both men were handed very tricky tasks