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Post by accipiter on Mar 18, 2017 11:47:57 GMT
One reads with a great deal of disgust that hunters in Cyprus are in the news again, this time for killing and eating songbirds which they kill by pushing a needle through their brains. I also expect some of them have been spoken to about this vile practise but I doubt it will affect these Neanderthals one little bit; you see for them it is part of their culture e.g. anything that moves kill it either for so called sport or financial gain, (apparently they are eaten in restaurants. And how am I so sure of this fact, well lets just say I am aware of a certain Cypriot who sees nothing wrong with this, in fact he wonders what all the fuss is about. Although he has lived in England all his adult life he still returns to Cyprus in order to hunt anything that moves.
It will also come as no surprise he is part of the hunting / shooting fraternity here too, (when in Rome) an analogy that seems to fit the bill very well indeed it would seem.
Alan
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Post by aeshna5 on Mar 18, 2017 15:17:13 GMT
Disgusting indeed Alan. Makes me sick to the core.
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Post by rowanberry on Mar 19, 2017 16:06:54 GMT
The problem seems to be on the increase, and it's not just Greece and Cyprus. This is from a very in-depth article on Nature.com www.nature.com/news/slaughter-of-the-song-birds-1.19222"Last year, researchers warned that a highly abundant Eurasian bird, the yellow-breasted bunting (Emberiza aureola), had lost as much as 95% of its population in the past three decades or so and was close to extinction in parts of its range. One major driver is thought to be the trapping of birds in China, where they are served as an expensive delicacy." Sadly, until the courts start handing out much harsher penalties it will difficult to change the situation.
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