Blowzabella, when I said "get over it" I was responding to this comment from you: "Personally, i am gutted, as you can probably tell by the number of posts I am making on this thread." And I didn't say you had ignored Greg's point about the meat industry, I said it had been dismissed lightly. I was not aiming that at you specifically, but your own response ("Oh for heavens sake ... drowning an animal is a different matter entirely") fits the description quite well.

You may not want the event banned, but that is the question you raised in the thread title, so I was entitled to express a view about that.

To answer your other question, yes, I've been to the fair, but not for many years. I used to be in the area regularly at one time. I have friends in Appleby, and relatives farmed on Shap Fell until recently.