Well I have to admit it is on my RADAR, if only on the periphery. My focus is, atm, on what I consider to be more immediate problems, alas.
It is an important ethical issue; there is no doubt of that. Excepting one or two nations with barbarous traditions we no longer eat whale or dolphin. Just like we Brits have our own set of barbarous traditions in other areas which need addressing; though hunting is slowly being atrophied. Fowling for the pot is a bit like snaring rabbits; dashed hard to eradicate. The only way that will happen is with a different moral and ethical education for everyone from an early age; and that will destroy some continuity of countryside culture, which has already been dealing with the loss of fox hunting - though that ban is observed more in the breach than in compliance.
The loss of cattle, pig, and sheep farms will change us radically. No more bucolic shepherds washing socks by night, etc. Do we censor the literature that accompanied such barbarism?
This is one area where I think society has to evolve en masse. It can't be top-down, legislation-led. Public opinion and legislation must walk hand-in-hand here.
So we have to educate folk; and in order to do so I guess you have to keep the subject in the public debate.
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Date: 20/4/20 13:04 (UTC)It is an important ethical issue; there is no doubt of that. Excepting one or two nations with barbarous traditions we no longer eat whale or dolphin. Just like we Brits have our own set of barbarous traditions in other areas which need addressing; though hunting is slowly being atrophied. Fowling for the pot is a bit like snaring rabbits; dashed hard to eradicate. The only way that will happen is with a different moral and ethical education for everyone from an early age; and that will destroy some continuity of countryside culture, which has already been dealing with the loss of fox hunting - though that ban is observed more in the breach than in compliance.
The loss of cattle, pig, and sheep farms will change us radically. No more bucolic shepherds washing socks by night, etc. Do we censor the literature that accompanied such barbarism?
This is one area where I think society has to evolve en masse. It can't be top-down, legislation-led. Public opinion and legislation must walk hand-in-hand here.
So we have to educate folk; and in order to do so I guess you have to keep the subject in the public debate.