Richard Bowler Wildlife Photography worth a read! Happy Easter to you and your families
If you choose to eat lamb this weekend, remember it's not just the lamb that dies for your meal. Followers of this page will know by now, foxes are slaughtered constantly in the name of sheep farming. This time of year nursing vixens are shot, for daring to be in the same field as sheep and their lambs, more often than not, scavenging after birth or already dead lambs. No thought for the cubs left to starve.
Ever wondered why moles are strung up on barbwire fences as a macabre trophy, no room for molehills on a sheep farm.
I've heard so much from the farming community how lamb production is sustainable, look around the over grazed mono culture of the Welsh hills, no room for biodiversity. Birds like the Chough may need grazed land to forage for grubs and worms, but not as much as we have across our uplands. The burning of heather to get fresh young grazing, no thought to the reptiles, amphibians, and other life that perish in the process.
The argument we've farmed like this for generations don't wash. In my lifetime our country has lost 60% of its wildlife. This wouldn't have happened if our methods of farming and land management were working, would it. After all around 70% of our land in this country is classed as agricultural.
If you watched David Attenborough yesterday you'll realise what dire trouble our planet is in. Tradition can't be an excuse to stop us trying to change.
In the spirit of fairness though, if you eat a plant based diet, are you doing enough. Palm oil, plastics, energy use, weedkillers, pesticides etc are things everyone of us can improve on. ... See more
