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one-hell-of-a-sheep · 1 year ago

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How is everyone here totally missing that wolves were in fact hunted to local extinction across huge swathes of the USA in order to protect livestock species? And that the US government still uses cyanide bombs, endangering people and pets, to target large predators for that same reason? Have some perspective here—y’all are not better, you’ve just had less time and a larger area of land to beat into submission. The culture around large predator conservation is shifting in both countries, but American livestock farmers are on the exact same side as English sport hunters. Given a button to irrevocably exterminate large predators, neither one would hesitate to push it.

Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your "nature reserves" every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form

#literally England and America are not that different #you come from the same cultural and ideological roots and both believe in the fkn religious domination of man over beast or whatever tf #yes there’s a huge amount of damage done by English sport hunting #but you seriously think huge plantings of corn and soy monoculture doused in pesticide are better????#you seriously think cattle farming is ecologically neutral?????#you think it’s worked out well to eliminate the controlled burns that regulated your continent for millennia? not like that could possibly #contribute to a massively elevated risk of wildfires or anything #genuinely get over yourselves just because someone else is bad doesn’t make you saints #you can both be at fault

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