Foxes, Badgers, Rats and Rabbits

[Mick Dempsey]

Too many people.

[GarethM]

So let's me get this right, I'm the problem.

 

Yet I'm the one of the many farmers in the UK actually benefitting and improving the environment around me, effectively living Carbon negatively.

 

Great reductive reasoning Gretta.

 

I'll duck out periodically, as I've an acre or two of holly to thrash back so those birds of prey won't stave.

[GarethM]

27 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Too many people.

Simply, yes.

 

Have a read of any newspaper and it's overflowing with celebrities and there menagerie of little oiks that go on to be influencers.

 

Today was no mark actor Gary Lucy, 5th kid.

[gdh]

There's loads of foxes here in mid Wales, too many really, a few hare and rabbits as well. We're all livestock farming in a this area though so there will be more wildlife than arable land.

[Doug Tait]

There's a theory that I find quite persuasive, that future historians will consider the Agricultural Revolution to be the beginning of the decline of our species and the wider environment.

We went from evolutionary well adapted hunter gatherers, living a healthy lifestyle within the natural eco system, involving physical exercise that suited us well and a balanced varied diet, procreating at a sustainable level, to the opposite. A species of slave workers tied in to surviving on a handful of average food sources, desperate for more and more numbers to carry out the endless repetitive labour (which affects our health so negatively) in an attempt to continue supplying the basics our inflated species 'survives' on.

[sime42]

8 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

There's a theory that I find quite persuasive, that future historians will consider the Agricultural Revolution to be the beginning of the decline of our species and the wider environment.

We went from evolutionary well adapted hunter gatherers, living a healthy lifestyle within the natural eco system, involving physical exercise that suited us well and a balanced varied diet, procreating at a sustainable level, to the opposite. A species of slave workers tied in to surviving on a handful of average food sources, desperate for more and more numbers to carry out the endless repetitive labour (which affects our health so negatively) in an attempt to continue supplying the basics our inflated species 'survives' on.

A convincing theory I'd say. Nothing to argue with there.

[JSN]

25 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

There's a theory that I find quite persuasive, that future historians will consider the Agricultural Revolution to be the beginning of the decline of our species and the wider environment.

We went from evolutionary well adapted hunter gatherers, living a healthy lifestyle within the natural eco system, involving physical exercise that suited us well and a balanced varied diet, procreating at a sustainable level, to the opposite. A species of slave workers tied in to surviving on a handful of average food sources, desperate for more and more numbers to carry out the endless repetitive labour (which affects our health so negatively) in an attempt to continue supplying the basics our inflated species 'survives' on.

Yep - I’ve always suspected that Borlaug has a lot to answer for. 

[Mick Dempsey]

40 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

There's a theory that I find quite persuasive, that future historians will consider the Agricultural Revolution to be the beginning of the decline of our species and the wider environment.

We went from evolutionary well adapted hunter gatherers, living a healthy lifestyle within the natural eco system, involving physical exercise that suited us well and a balanced varied diet, procreating at a sustainable level, to the opposite. A species of slave workers tied in to surviving on a handful of average food sources, desperate for more and more numbers to carry out the endless repetitive labour (which affects our health so negatively) in an attempt to continue supplying the basics our inflated species 'survives' on.

What do you think the average life span of the hunter gatherer was?

[GarethM]

About 40 if my vague recollections of museums, I'm sure it was pretty static until smallpox vaccination for the general population.

[Mick Dempsey]

Varies according to sources, 30 to 40.

Halcyon days eh?