Why Is A National Nespaper Printing This Hysterical Garbage?

[andy-hughes]

WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES IN THIS LINK -

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6965469/The-savage-cruelty-law-lets-crows-torture-kill-sheep-writes-SUE-REID.html


I am as much of an animal lover as the next person, but l also understand that nature is often cruel and violent.

But we have to keep a sense of proportion, something which seems to have utterly deserted the Daily Mail in its coverage of the change in the laws governing the shooting of crows.

It's coverage is slanted in an utterly inaccurate and unreal way - no doubt to appeal to the animal lovers in its Middle England readership.

But let's be factual here shall we? Crows are not 'demons', in spite of the picture used to infer that message, neither do they 'torture' ewes and lambs like some species of flying psychopath.

Crows eat to survive, and part of their prey is the soft and easy-to-eat parts of sheep and lambs, and like any creature, they will take what the can find when they can find it.

Yes, lambs and sheep are fluffy and defenceless, and crows look menacing and unattractive, but that is not the crows' fault - they simply do what they do to live - they don't do it for sadistic fun, they do it to survive, as all animals and birds do.

After all, farmers don't want to shoot crows to protect their fluffy lambs and sheep because they love them - they want to shoot them because blind and killed animals represent financial loss, which the farmer recoups when the animals are killed anyway, albeit more humanely.

Does anyone else agree that the Mail's slant on this issue is ludicrously biased, and pandering to the anthropomorphic attitudes of its readers and it should accept that nature is nasty, regardless of how 'appealing' some species are.

[EDDIE51]

Because 'The Daily Wail' is well known as a 'Scandel Sheet ' ! Its regular readers have been accessed in surveys as having a lower IQ than those of any other Newspaper !

[Baldric]

What!!! even Sun readers?

[Baldric]

PS, I thought it was 'Scandal'

[andy-hughes]

EDDIE - // Its regular readers have been accessed in surveys as having a lower IQ than those of any other Newspaper ! //

I am a regular Mail reader, but I also read other papers regularly, so I would beg to buck the trend for any 'survey' that maligns my IQ!!

[Spicerack]

EDDIE51// Because 'The Daily Wail' is well known as a 'Scandel Sheet ' ! Its regular readers have been accessed in surveys as having a lower IQ than those of any other Newspaper !//

'Scandel''Low IQ'. You're a scream, Eddie. Parody at its best.

[naomi24]

AH, //any seal handler would tell you that seals can be vicious, and will bite if they feel provoked//

Most wild animals will defend themselves if they feel provoked. That really should go without saying. As I said, speak to divers.

I read most newspapers including the Sun which, like the Mail, is one of the best-selling newspapers in the country. I like to keep my finger on the pulse of the nation – even if that renders me in the eyes of the deluded who for no discernible reason claim intellectual superiority, a veritable dimwit. It’s good to laugh. ;o)

[anotheoldgit]

/// PS, I thought it was 'Scandal' ///

EDDIE51 must be one of those regular readers of that scandal sheet, he is going on about?

[jobjockey]

EDDIEST
What a disgraceful statement, I
am a regular Mail reader.
It speaks for the general people
of Britain, and has initiated many
campaigns, Steve Lawrence,Sgt Blackman
and clean up the country.
Get off the Mail.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - // As I said, speak to divers. //


It may well be that seals swimming in the wild may appear to 'play' with divers if you need that cuddly athropomorphical image, but the fact remains, if you get within arms length of a seal on dry land, the chances are it will bite you.