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Yes, and your earlier point about people struggling to fundamentally survive is also right. It is possible to eat cheaply and more...

Arent they? Eating a vegetarian diet is far more expensive than living on processed crap.

Nobody is forced to buy meat though. It's a choice. I do understand that it's easier for some people to turn a blind eye to what goes...

Like a lot of things, sometimes you really wish you DIDN'T know what's going on in this wicked world. Poor cows, and poor ponies.

The horse I knew was a proper polo pony, not a meat pony, who arrived in the UK to join a wealthy sponsor’s string. There was a small...

My experience of them is that they're neither mentally nor physically equipped for domestic life. They have a niche and don't really fit...

LGDs are absolutely amazing at what they were bred to do but a lot of the qualities that allow them to keep livestock safe in isolated...

That reminds me

Well it certainly should be.

I mean, that's the bottom line isn't it?

That's another consideration I had, my local community, albeit rural and not many of us, would probably be very wary

A guardian breed, particularly the generally less domestic ones are a very, very long way from a rottie. I also can't imagine how these...

I have to say that Ovcharkas are not a breed that I'm fond of and do my best to avoid. Probably better suited to their role as...

The difference between most of the dogs you mention (and I spend my weekends working with GSDs, Malinois and Doberman) is that as a...

I quite genuinely cannot begin to imagine, (knowing just how much time,effort,work and sheer physical slog for months it takes to bring...