SHEEP FARMERS - lock up your sheep and find a new career.

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MrWoof

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If you look at a post on the Hunting Forum re: LUSH by "ilovehunting", you will see that even if you have 2,000+ sheep, you HAVE to lock them up at night to keep them safe! This total half-wit also stated that Sheep Farmers should ..... "find a more environmentaly friendly career path".
WHO IS THIS TOTAL HALF-WIT????
I so look forward to hearing your comments.
With best regards from a Welsh (Dairy) Farmer's Daughter!
 
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That statement from Lush makes me want to bang my head on the wall.
What planet are they on?

Given that the hunting act has banned fox hunting with hounds, there has been no ban on killing foxes in other ways and everyone agrees that the population has to be controlled, particularly in upland areas.

There aren't many sheep around here, but there are quite a lot of shoots and since the Hunting Act I don't think I have seen a fox. Previously I used to see quite a few out and about in the evenings, so I can guess what has happened to them. Now. LUSH might not like shooting, but there has been no ban on that, so the gamekeepers are looking after their birds in the best way they know how.
 
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and as I pointed out on the thread in question, finding something more sustainable than sheep farming might be a tad tricky. It's been going on a while. ;)
 
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I suppose the raving crazies responsible for this also think we should give up all livestock farming in favour of growing crops on the land?

I challenge any of them to come and successfully grow cereal crops in this area - the farmers round here struggle to grow grass!

Go on, you plough that steep mountain! If you don't end up dead when your tractor rolls down it, I'll laugh when you hit the rocks!
 
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Yeah, where I live (similar environment to the highlands, with some very sheer cliffs and crap grazing) we have a 'Blahtown Potato Company'.

Where I live it is impossible to grow spuds so they lorry them in from all over the country - the only thing potatoes do in Blahtown is get put into sacks off a conveyor belt by eastern Europeans and then get lorried off back to shops all over the country.
Ecologically sound, eh?
 
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I suppose the raving crazies responsible for this also think we should give up all livestock farming in favour of growing crops on the land?

I challenge any of them to come and successfully grow cereal crops in this area - the farmers round here struggle to grow grass!

Go on, you plough that steep mountain! If you don't end up dead when your tractor rolls down it, I'll laugh when you hit the rocks!
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Then we can build massive sheep sheds within a few minutes walk from all of our fields.No problem, the goivernment can pay. And I am sure that these townie fools will appreciate the scenic beuty of our moorlands and dales ,covered with concrete and Atcost buildings,It will make them feel at home.
 
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Now there's a thought - Battery Sheep! With enough antibiotics shoved into them they'd probably survive intensification in large, fox-proof barns.
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No - it would be far too cruel to put them through the pain of a Hugh F-W/Jamie Oliver documentary! :)
 
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