"O'Donnell"
The Irish always did have the edge over the English in the quality of the hunting songs but that still doesn't make these songs any more acceptable in content (mus say, O'Donnal's gappy singing and and ponderous pace doesn't do that particular one any favours
Anthropomorphising the is merely a way of disguising the fact that, far from escaping virtually all are butchered (wrong term - you can't eat them, can you)
"Nanny State" is yet another term for demanding the right do behave abominably - nobody can claim any establishment that has ever introduced these laws is either progressive or humanitarian by nature
These laws are invariably passed when public pressure becomes so great that to persist in the practices would reflect badly at election time - slavery being a classic case in point
Why perist in hiding behind clichés when you don't believe them - you'll be talking about "the politics of envy" next
C'mon Ake - you used to be better than this
Jim