On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:30:50 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk
wrote:

On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 16:15:24 +0100, newshound wrote:

On 27/08/2020 15:29, T i m wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:39:59 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk
wrote:

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My biggest bugbear - irrespective of power source - is stopping to
empty the grass box every 2 passes of the lawn.

Something I belive may be close to your heart, I see they are setting
pigs loose in areas of the country that were originally 'managed' by
such animals in any case, because it's easier and more productive at
returning the habituate to what was good and supported good diversity
than anything we can do manually (or afford to do manually). ;-)

In the same way fallen trees or stuff that might be cleared is often
left to provide habitat etc.

Cheers, T i m

Wild boar are not so welcome not far away from me in the Forest of Dean.

Is that because they **** off dog walkers ? Sounds like a good reason to
have a lot more of them.

And they taste nice

The pigs I'm guessing. ;-)

Smiles aside for a second (and I'm asking you this because I consider
you a reasonable and sensible guy), do you ever consider what goes on
in the background (and again, assuming you don't work on a pig /
livestock farm etc), just to provide something on your plate,
something you don't actually need?

Thoughts around things like this (not nice but no 'intentional'
cruelty involved):

https://ibb.co/HHW5HxN (sad picture)
https://ibb.co/Cmh7zL8 (description)

I guess many assume (or prefer to imagine to block out the reality)
these animals just frolic round a meadow for a long and healthy lives
to then give themselves up to somehow (painlessly and magically) end
up on our plates?

If say we only ate lemming or salmon as they die in their spawning
grounds then I guess that would be ok (unless in so doing it
interrupted some other animals feeding or nutrition cycle etc) then
that might be ok?

Cheers, T i m