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The Countryside Alliance’s Stronger Stuff
The Countryside Alliance trills over the anniversary of their Liberty & Livelihood March.
It seems like only yesterday since the big day, which I spent frantically keeping the media up to speed from the back of a flatbed truck, looking down Whitehall as a sea of people walked towards us. In those seven years an incredible amount has happened. The Liberty & Livelihood March was not just about the symbolic issue of hunting, of course. It was also about respect and tolerance, and about giving a voice to a countryside in decline. The reasons we marched that day are just as relevant now, but it is for the issue of hunting that the march is best remembered.
The Hunting Act was, of course, nothing about cruelty to animals but
an illiberal and spiteful swipe at a section of society made of stronger stuff.
But not sufficiently “stronger stuff” to debate the International Fund for Animal Welfare. The Countryside Alliance declined IFAW’s invitation to debate the Hunting Act at the forthcoming Conservative Party Conference.
Sadly, we must decline. Our position on this subject and that of the Conservative Party is a matter of public record and is well known to MP’s and candidates alike.
Hastings Film Challenge–Anebriate
“Anebriate” is the name of the film a group of Hastings ne’er-do-wells, including the Grumpy Vegan, made and submitted as part of this year’s Hastings Film Challenge. The film is now available to watch at the Hastings Film Challenge; however, it’s a bit of a tortuous process to get to it:
1) Click on the above link
2) Click on the 2009 Winners Movies
3) Scroll down on the right-hand side bar to No. 11 Best Use of Prop and click on it.
4) Enjoy the film!
The Hastings Obscurer said we were “unlucky not to walk away with major awards.”
Our film had to be a romantic comedy, called “Anebriate” and feature a table.
Party political broadcast on behalf of the Countryside Alliance Party
The Danger of Livestock Waste–Excellent NYT Video Report
Animal Farming = Pollution and Human Disease
Agricultural runoff is the single largest source of water pollution in the nation’s rivers and streams, according to the E.P.A. An estimated 19.5 million Americans fall ill each year from waterborne parasites, viruses or bacteria, including those stemming from human and animal waste, according to a study published last year in the scientific journal Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. The problem is not limited to Wisconsin. In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies. Major waterways like the Chesapeake Bay have been seriously damaged by agricultural pollution, according to government reports. In Arkansas and Maryland, residents have accused chicken farm owners of polluting drinking water. In 2005, Oklahoma’s attorney general sued 13 poultry companies, claiming they had damaged one of the state’s most important watersheds.
