Hunters Want to Kill Cats

The Herald Sun in Australia reports Victorian gun group pushing for the right to shoot stray cats.

Hunters would be allowed to shoot cats that stray from houses on to public land under a controversial plan being pushed by a Victorian gun group. The Sporting Shooters Association of Victoria wants the State Government to change the law to allow hunters to kill any cat it considers a risk to native fauna. The push to legally destroy family pets and feral cats is among a range of changes the group is seeking. They include new hunting seasons for cockatoos and galahs, the vulnerable crested pigeon and new regulations for slaying of eastern grey kangaroos. In a report requesting amendments to wildlife regulations, the association says destruction of native wildlife in Victorian forests could be “partly mitigated if there was a provision to destroy cats within specified distances of dwellings.

Suggestions please for Problem? Answer: Animal. Solution: Kill Them.

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Hunting, Politics, Royalty and Animal Rights

What to make of the political autobiographies and what they say about the Hunting Act 2004 which banned fox hunting and other bloodsports?

Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote in A Journey that he didn’t ‘feel’ the issue. (305) May be that was why the Labour government had to be dragged kicking and screaming to ban bloodsports. Continue reading

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Vegan Baking

The Everything-Less Fruit Cake from the 1066 Cake Stand's Compendium of Cakes

Christmas and the New Year are the perfect time to bake vegan goodies. Actually, any time of the year is the best time of the year to bake vegan goodies but sometimes we need an excuse.

So, what better thing to do during is there other than to bake vegan goodies? Which isn’t mean to say that the Grumpy Vegan didn’t work during over Christmas and the New Year. Because he did. That damn book isn’t going to write itself, is it?

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Veil Between

The Grumpy Vegan recommends the Christian Vegetarianism blog as an invaluable resource on things to do with, er, Christian Vegetarianism. It’s a treasure trove of historic goodies. An excellent example is ’The Veil Between’ by Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957) which appeared in The Vegetarian dated December 7, 1895. It is, apparently, a lower-third portion of a montage composition. I like the contrast between the two children peering through the curtain shocked at the bull’s slaughter with the delight of the delight of the two Christian men tucking into their charred animal corpse.

'The Veil Between; or, Poetry and Tragedy' by Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957)

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