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No. Read all the words.

I completely agree with you about the Halal thing. It's a barbaric practice that should be stopped hencefourth. It's a load of bollox like most of all the major religions. Top marks for managing to bring the anti-muslim sentiment into the discussion though. 👍 Mind you, as bad as Halal is, it's only the culmination of a tragic journey from an animal welfare point of view. Closing all the small local abattoirs so that animals have to be driven all over the country, crammed into the back of lorries makes no sense to me. That happens to most animals, regardless of whether or not they're destined to be eaten by Muslims. Yes, the explosion in the deer population is wreaking havoc with nature in the UK. I'm not an ecologist but that's what I've read. Seen a few stories on here too, about the damage to trees and the wider landscape caused by deer and grey squirrels, (I suggest we cull them to stock the meat shelves with too). Check it on the Truth Machine if you don't believe me. You almost got it that time, but not quite. I wasn't talking only about the 350000 deer that are currently taken. I meant all of, (or as many as possible), of the excess population that we've currently got. So, maybe 1M. Considering that we've got 1.5 - 2M now, up from 450000 in the 70's. Make intensively farmed meat expensive, as it should be, and people's tastes will soon change.

I'd favour going hardline on it, just to force the idea through. If conventional farmed meats were to get too expensive then the Bambis and Fluffy Bunnies will get increasingly more appetising. This'll be controversial but I'd make the whole thing a state driven enterprise. If we were ever to get a government with some balls to implement a nationwide culling campaign.

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Couple of points you missed again here. I wasn't suggesting that everyone should be hunters, yours is not the only way. Meat is not the only food source. This discussion started with neonicotinoids and Sugar Beat, if you recall. Irrespective of who does the actual shooting, commercial or private, there ought to be a nationwide program of deer culling to get all that wild meat off the land, where it's wreaking havoc, and onto the supermarket shelves. Much better for all and everything concerned if that was the meat component of our food landscape, rather than intensively reared livestock. What do you think?

You missed the point as always. I wasn't suggesting you take photos of shooting. You should read the words people write;- "That's good. You should share some photos of the results of your horticultural and culinary exploits on here sometimes." I totally agree with you wrt for life. I spent the first half of my life as rural dweller.

That's good. You should share some photos of the results of your horticultural and culinary exploits on here sometimes. "My point was/is those living in cities or built up areas etc without the financial resources, inclination or opportunities to possibly hunt or grow food will always be more concerned about the cost than the effects it has upon nature." ----------- but it doesn't have to be like that. "I’ve actually stalked over beet fields down in Lincolnshire and second only to the forestry plantations up here they were dull lifeless desolate locations. Unfortunately they both are a part of the world we live in." ----------- but it doesn't have to be like that. There is another, better way of doing things. A man of your prodigious motivation and dogmatism could help bring about change if you refocused your efforts to a more worthwhile cause like this, our broken food system. "I could go off on a tangent about the link between extra mouths to feed and immigration but I’ll save that for another day. " --------- please do. You have to use five distinct sentences though.

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I can never work out whether you're a Rhinoceros or a Naked mole-rat. Right then, the ban on neonicotinoid, let's explore that topic a bit further. We can probably find some common ground somewhere. I don't want to assume, so do you choose the countryside over cheap food? I do. Though I don't believe that it has to be a dichotomous choice actually. The thing is, neonicotinoids are mainly used by the Sugar Beet industry, (from what I've heard about those who most strongly oppose the ban), and that's not exactly food is it? Cheap or otherwise. So maybe it isn't a choice between cheap food or the countryside at all in this particular case. I'd guess it's about maximising profit for the industry, hence why the previous muppets refused to impose the ban. Look around you, we don't need any more sugar in the UK. Bees and other flying insects are far more beneficial to us.

Ta. I can see that working along the grain. But end grain?

Interesting. No I don't scrape. I've seen references to it but never tried or really looked into the technique. What's it all about?

I just looked it up. Bloody hell, he's a proper narcotics gourmand isn't he? That'll be one thing that him and Trump won't see eye to eye on for starters. "Some executives and board members fear the billionaire’s use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies."

I must have missed that bit of blasphemous dirt on Musk. What's his drug or drugs of choice then? Coke?

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The one that that lump, and lots more besides, came from had no spikes. It was much too far gone, there weren't even any branches left on it. It's lovely wood from an aesthetic point of view, pretty colour and figure, bit of a bugger to work and finish though as it's hard and tough. Luckily it makes good firewood also.

That's it then folks, the season of peace and goodwill is over already. At least we had a couple of pages of other news back there. Free of the usual @Johnsondism. Looks like we're back to cesspit status again already. Here's some good news. Labour have done well on this front anyway. Long overdue, the previous lots dragged their heels on it for far too many years. Deadly neonicotinoids ban must bring overdue respite for bees, say The Wildlife Trusts | The Wildlife Trusts WWW.WILDLIFETRUSTS.ORG Today, the UK Government has announced its intention to bring forward a “complete ban on bee killing pesticides” with...

Sharp as a pin you are, or a Robinia spike for that matter.

Yes, correct. The base is Robinia. I think. I'm impressed you got that to be fair. It took me quite a while to figure out what it was when I was cutting the tree down as it was long since dead. Just a big knarly trunk. It was rotted out hollow in the middle. No sign of spalting though as you say. The mushroom itself is Ash, hence the course grain. I've not seen as much spalting in that before.

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Nice work. But which bit are you referring to?

Guess the wood anyone?

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