MP Defends Feral Cats

[wrenchman]

with all the feral cats you guys have you should have more chinese food places

[Gamerancher]

There's at least one in every town, they're doing their bit.

[duncan61]

Do you have a feral cat problem in the states or do the coyotes and cougers get em all

[bigfellascott]

What we need to do is get a heap of feral cats and drop em at this ****** place and let him deal with em and keep doing it over and over again, I love to see how he reacts to something like that continuously happening.

[on_one_wheel]

It's obviously suffering from some kind of undiagnosed mental disorder.

[Oldbloke]

Nutty as a fruit cake.

[wrenchman]

no it seams like every thing eats them here i have seen hawks kill them and eat them.
A guy i work with had a possum killing his kids cats

[Sydor]

Same with the commercial meat industry. We all need to eat and there is nothing wrong with eating meat but the rapid increase in meat consumption over the past 50 years id solely driven my corporate interests.

I thought is was because there more people on the planet, and more people who can afford meat due to ample supply.
And that those people live do longer and healthier due to the better nutrition.
Reducing the supply would reverse that trend. Would you like that outcome?

[Gwion]

Same with the commercial meat industry. We all need to eat and there is nothing wrong with eating meat but the rapid increase in meat consumption over the past 50 years id solely driven my corporate interests.

I thought is was because there more people on the planet, and more people who can afford meat due to ample supply.
And that those people live do longer and healthier due to the better nutrition.
Reducing the supply would reverse that trend. Would you like that outcome?

Nope. Meat eating habits have changed significantly in the past 50 years and it is driven by commercialisation.

Many studies and statistics are outlined in a doco called 'Cowspiricy'. It's quite an interesting show. Yes, yes. It promotes veganism but has some very insightful info on the cause of the meat industry boom as well as it effects on the planet.

Another good doco series is "the Men Who Made Us....." series (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cxvf ... f-3_school)(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B894f_Bzvp4). It outlines very clearly and with historical accuracy how our society has been engineered over the past 50 years or so to be ever more consumerist.

I've got nothing against eating meat. I grow and slaughter my own livestock but the amount of meat we eat is not making us healthier, it is actually causing significant health problems, especially in the wider western world. Along with that are significant environmental impacts of an ever expanding meat industry. This is all driven by a solely profit based system with none of the altruistic values of improving standards of living you seem to believe it it has.

So, I don't think we need to all be before or vegan. Nor do we need to completely irradicate the meat industry, as some promote. I do, however, think that we don't need to eat anywhere near as much meat as we do.

[Oldbloke]

Yep, I love it, but we eat too much meat. Along with a few other foods like sugar and salt.

[andreweden]

Not about feral cats, but we do seem to have slid off topic a little. Ex vegan hunter! http://www.utne.com/environment/ex-vega ... 0z13jazros

[RoginaJack]

I think the following quote by the MP sums it up -

Instead of addressing the damage done by cats, he said the best way to protect native species was to “end land clearing, phase out animal agriculture and re-vegetate and re-afforest marginal land currently being used for sheep and cattle farming.”

AND I feel it's to phase out meat eating and convert all to Vegans.

[Gaznazdiak]

Another knob-end politician that's probably never been out of the suburbs.
He's obviously one of the politically correct brigade that believe it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end

[Member-Deleted]

Dont do vegies.

So you know I always thought if I was in a plane and it crashed on
some deserted island and there was only plant life on it,
I would be very worried if I was another survivor....

[Member-Deleted]

Talking about wild cats
Watched a show on tv the other day about the effects wild cats had on cattle and learnt a lot of things i didn't know
For one cats can carry a feline desease that can be transfered to cattle ,this affects their calf drop rate by 60%to75% this means a breeder can
stop having as many calves to being barron

Once these cattle have the desease they can't be sold
There was one property that had its pure bred stock completely ruined because of this desease
And the meat is not for human consumption once it is deemed deseased
This all but ruined the farmer,( broken mariage,attempted suicide and the rest that goes with loosing your lifes work

I am thinking that this MP sh--s from both ends because nobody with one ar---le would defend an animal that is capable of killing
10 or more native animals at one sitting
People should wonder about these MP's and their radical thoughts as to if they should be in their tax funded positions

I to eat very little meat due to health reasons but also believe the meat industry is a very misguided industry caused by corperate greed

Cheers