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Sources: A cowardly prick and a dead fox / Joules |
In the world of pest control, those responsible for killing rats and bugs don't don fancy attire before indulging in pomp, making a show of destroying their prey with machines or other beasts. It's a necessary evil and to take joy from such activities would transcend the bizarre; delight over the death of another living thing is venomous and unspeakably nasty.
Scientists, including Steven Harris and David MacDonald, have shown over and over that an absence of fox hunting has negligible impact on lamb mortality rates. If farmers make a decent effort to fence in their chickens then, excusing the possibility of foxes developing opposable thumbs and mastering tool use, their poultry can be protected with very little effort too. Without moral or scientific rationality on their side, what rights do people have to torture, maim, eviscerate and ultimately annihilate animals? It's also worth nothing that psychologists have often pointed out that those who are capable of torturing animals often progress onto delinquency, violence and inflicting misery onto humans too . Is this Joules target audience?
I am to assume that Joules, as a company, are pro fox hunting and this is their (misguided) right. But to stock these products? At the very least, Joules must have known the designs to be controversial and upsetting so to stock so many pro-hunt items is crass and insensitive. But I guess all tastes have to be catered for. If you'd like people to know you support the destruction of Britain's wildlife why not show it with a Kindle case or umbrella?
If you find nothing more stylish than the thought of a fox with it's entrails clawed out, why not suggest it with a delightful blouse?
Nice post
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