Greg F

"I wonder if people like Iains have any imagination at all."

Any fool can hurl insults but unlike you I can construct a sentence and present an argument. The bulk of your posts do not contain sufficient words to make either a sentence, or any kind of sense. Pray continue the gibbering.

Ake. As you say anyone out shooting a fox with a rifle or shotgun cannot guarantee a killing shot. A quick death from hounds upsets certain sensibilities but a lingering death from infected wounds is apparently OK. No method of culling can be guaranteed humane, hell we cannot even guarantee humane slaughter in an abbatoir. (let alone the non stunning of cattle prior to halal slaughter)

Stu: I cannot dispute what you state. Factory farming of both crops and annimals inevitably restricts biodiversity. But factory farming maximises food production. How to break out of this vicious cycle is going to be quite an accomplishment and I have no idea how it can be achieved. We may have clever scientists that can boost yields, but these same scientists gave us DDT, thalidomide and nuclear bombs. The march of human progress is littered with dead ends and minefields. And by the way movement controls have been in force for decades, although becoming increasingly stringent. I had my first movement book in 1980.