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I shouldn't watch the sorry excuse for news they show on the BBC any more. The Day Today had it right with "Fact X Importance = News". It all makes me so angry. They dwell on things that have no basis in fact but will worry people and then a story when they could actually give facts about it they skip over it because they've spent 20 minutes interviewing 10 people from 5 different continents about the 2 things they most want to hear 1 person say within the next 24 hours.
Animal rights campaigners annoy me as well. I remember Gandhi saying something like "You can judge the morals of a society by how well they treat their animals." But I think there are far more important things these people could be doing than trying to stop a company carrying out cruel experiments on animals.
The laws governing animal welfare in this country are fairly strict. There are plenty of other countries where our animals are looked after better than the people in those countries. I can sympathise with these people but I think trying to close down animal research in this country will force it other countries where they wouldn't enjoy the same freedom of protest and the animals will be looked after far less humanely. It is a business after all and if the costs of running it in this country are too high, then awy it goes.
Then I also read somewhere today that a farmer somewhere in the UK who makes gallows for export is being targeted by human rights groups because the gallows are being sold to countries with bad human rights records. It just seems a pointless thing to protest at. It's not like they can torture someone with gallows. It's a pretty much one way street where gallows are concerned. Why aren't they protesting to the UK companies who are actually doing business with these countries. The companies that are supplying them with the means of abusing human rights. The banks and financial institutions that are making money from peoples suffering in these countries.
I shouldn't watch the sorry excuse for news they show on the BBC any more. The Day Today had it right with "Fact X Importance = News". It all makes me so angry. They dwell on things that have no basis in fact but will worry people and then a story when they could actually give facts about it they skip over it because they've spent 20 minutes interviewing 10 people from 5 different continents about the 2 things they most want to hear 1 person say within the next 24 hours.
Animal rights campaigners annoy me as well. I remember Gandhi saying something like "You can judge the morals of a society by how well they treat their animals." But I think there are far more important things these people could be doing than trying to stop a company carrying out cruel experiments on animals.
The laws governing animal welfare in this country are fairly strict. There are plenty of other countries where our animals are looked after better than the people in those countries. I can sympathise with these people but I think trying to close down animal research in this country will force it other countries where they wouldn't enjoy the same freedom of protest and the animals will be looked after far less humanely. It is a business after all and if the costs of running it in this country are too high, then awy it goes.
Then I also read somewhere today that a farmer somewhere in the UK who makes gallows for export is being targeted by human rights groups because the gallows are being sold to countries with bad human rights records. It just seems a pointless thing to protest at. It's not like they can torture someone with gallows. It's a pretty much one way street where gallows are concerned. Why aren't they protesting to the UK companies who are actually doing business with these countries. The companies that are supplying them with the means of abusing human rights. The banks and financial institutions that are making money from peoples suffering in these countries.