League Against Cruel Sports

The League Against Cruel Sports sounds like a decent outfit with a good rationale. It is not. Some of the members mentioned by the Wiki are townies who doubtless mean well but  Jo Brand is different, a fat ugly Marxist, part of the Labour in-crowd. There is a difference between Altruism and the Pathological sort. Somehow they cannot or will not understand Animal Husbandry; it is closely akin to keeping the land in good heart. It means keeping animals fed and healthy.

That they refuse to do. They have been told but they have ignored advice. One of their own people on Barondown, their tranquil oasis, where deer starve to death or die of bovine tuberculosis told them what was going on. They chose to ignore him and the similarities to Auschwitz.

They do the wrong things for what they claim are the right reasons. It would make sense for the RSPCA to prosecute them; it does not. Are they also hypocrites? You just might think so. The RSPCA keeps very quiet about the blatant cruelty of Kosher Slaughter but then pandering to Jews is policy, especially when they are Zionist crazies.

 

League Against Cruel Sports ex Wiki         
The League Against Cruel Sports is an animal welfare charity which campaigns to stop blood sports such as fox, hare and deer hunting, game bird shooting and animal fighting.

The charity is recognised as being instrumental in bringing about the Hunting Act 2004, which banned hunting with hounds in England and Wales and the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002, which did the same in Scotland. Today, the League calls for those pieces of legislation to be strengthened.

Famous supporters include comedian Ricky Gervais, Jo Brand, John Bishop, Sir David Jason, and Gemma Atkinson. The current president is naturalist Bill Oddie OBE.[1]

 

Animal Husbandry ex Wiki             
Animal husbandry
is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, eggs, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, selective breeding and the raising of livestock.

Husbandry has a long history, starting with the Neolithic revolution when animals were first domesticated, from around 13,000 BC onwards, antedating farming of the first crops. By the time of early civilisations such as ancient Egypt, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs were being raised on farms.

Major changes took place in the Columbian Exchange when Old World livestock were brought to the New World, and then in the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century, when livestock breeds like the Dishley Longhorn cattle and Lincoln Longwool sheep were rapidly improved by agriculturalists such as Robert Bakewell to yield more meat, milk, and wool.

A wide range of other species such as horse, water buffalo, llama, rabbit and guinea pig are used as livestock in some parts of the world. Insect farming, as well as aquaculture of fish, molluscs, and crustaceans, is widespread.

Modern animal husbandry relies on production systems adapted to the type of land available. Subsistence farming is being superseded by intensive animal farming in the more developed parts of the world, where for example beef cattle are kept in high density feedlots, and thousands of chickens may be raised in broiler houses or batteries. On poorer soil such as in uplands, animals are often kept more extensively, and may be allowed to roam widely, foraging for themselves.

Most livestock are herbivores, except for pigs and chickens which are omnivores. Ruminants like cattle and sheep are adapted to feed on grass; they can forage outdoors, or may be fed entirely or in part on rations richer in energy and protein, such as pelleted cereals. Pigs and poultry cannot digest the cellulose in forage, and require cereals and other high-energy foods.

 


 

League Against Cruel Sports Kills Deer Slowly, Painfully Using Systematic Neglect  [ 4 October 2019 ]
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For those of us who know its history Baronsdown is a byword for the full cruelty and hypocrisy of the animal rights movement. Baronsdown is one of several parcels of land bought by the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) from the 1950’s onwards as ‘sanctuaries’ from hunting most obviously for Exmoor’s red deer. Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of red deer knows that without active management, i.e. culling, deer populations outgrow food resources and the health of the herd declines. LACS, however, is not just opposed to hunting with hounds it has an absolute opposition to any lethal management despite all the evidence of the consequences...........

Eventually one of LACS’s own employees blew the whistle telling of the 107 deer he had found dead or dying in a 12 month period. Even then LACS refused to properly address the welfare of deer on its land and there have been recurrent stories of dead and dying deer in and around Baronsdown. The facts speak for themselves. For instance from 2000 - 2008 there were 88 confirmed cases of the debilitating disease bovine tuberculosis in deer in the whole of Devon and Somerset. 77 of those, 86%, were found within 2km of Baronsdown.
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The League Against Cruel Sports claims the purity of its intentions and makes a superficially attractive case, telling us about Baronsdown, their "tranquil oasis". They are at best ignorant townies or  Moral Cretins. They are much like the Communists; they promise Heaven and create Hell. What is the RSPCA doing about their evil? Pretending ignorance.

 

Animal Rights Group Promotes Cruelty [ 29 July 2022 ]
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Yesterday, The Times newspaper published a story about the use of thermal imaging drones being used to help stalkers locate deer in young woodland vulnerable to deer grazing in which a quote from Animal Rights group People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) particularly caught my eye. A PETA spokesman said: “If deer numbers are to be reduced, humane methods must be employed — the key being to target their food sources by trimming back low-hanging branches, keeping grass cut short, and shrouding saplings”.

It is difficult to know quite where to start with this statement and given that the drones are being trialled in a 1,000ha acre conservation area with newly-planted trees it would be equally difficult to know where to start trimming branches, cutting grass or shrouding saplings. As idiotic and impractical as this advice is, however, it is not as bad as the consequences that would occur if someone actually managed to carry it out. What these great promoters of ethical treatment of animals are actually asking Scottish landowners to do is to starve deer to death. Not just a few but thousands and thousands of deer dying of hunger as ‘their food sources are targeted’ as apparently responsible landowners follow PETA’s advice on ‘humane methods’ of control.

Of course, we should not be surprised about animal rights extremists saying insane things, but it is quite extraordinary how simply claiming to be nice to animals seems to give groups like PETA immunity from criticism however ridiculous their position..............

This immunity also seems to extend to PETA’s status as a charity. Its first charitable objective is ‘to prevent or relieve suffering of animals’ yet here PETA is happily promoting a policy that would cause untold suffering. Is there any chance the Charity Commission will intervene or ask whether some of the extraordinary claims it makes are supported by “well-founded evidence” as required by its guidance? Of course not, presumably because ‘they mean well’.

You may take the view that these are just extremists, that their words have little influence and have little practical effect. You do not have to look too far, however, to see exactly how this sort of lunacy can create suffering on a vast scale. Just across the North Sea at Oostvaardersplassen, east of Amsterdam, exactly the sort of policy promoted by PETA was put in place on a 5,000ha reserve. PETA claims that “nature equipped deer to control their own numbers” and that was exactly the approach managers at Oostvaardersplassen took to the red deer, wild ponies and heck cattle on the reserve. In one particularly harsh winter five years ago the total number of deer, ponies and cattle dropped from 5,230 to 1,850. In a few months 3,380 large herbivores starved to death or were shot at the point of starvation. This vast suffering is the “evidence base” for PETA’s policy and if we do not challenge such madness then it will only cause more of the same.
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Most PETA people mean well but it has its fanatics too. Do they understand the realities of population growth and hard winters? Probably but their agenda comes first. Tim Bonner of the Countryside Alliance explains, using a moderate tone and the truth, one confirmed by the Wikipedia regarding the reserve at Oostvaardersplassen. There are still Dutch people in Arnhem  with personal wartime experience of starvation. It is not a fun way to die.

The League Against Cruel Sports is doing the same, starving deer to death on their land at Baronsdown. They also get a pass from the Charity Commission and from the RSPCA.