@davidc4430 wrote:
your confusing nature with mans intervention.
yes nature can and is cruel, no doubt about it.
no one is arguing that.
the argument here if it is an argument is that we are now in the 21st century and the best cure we have for a problem is to inflict a disease that takes weeks to kill and causes terrible suffering onto a species of animal because its become a problem.
if its ok to use such a thing on rabbits why not feral cats. imagine if the govt released a desease into the feral cat population that caused cats to die in a similar manner to the rabbits requiring every pet cat to be vaccinated? i would think the govt that did that would be booted out of govt. and yet the problems are very similar. then there is wild dogs, wild goats ect ect.
the govt only got away with it as it was rabbits, only a small number of people own pet rabbits.
i dont own a rabbit. but i would be horrified if the govt anounced they were going to release cat version of the calici virus to cull feral cats.
the calici virus is not part of the real world, it is just an easy solution to a problem
if i was to infect my dog with a disease on purpose that took several weeks to kill him in much pain and suffering and i was put in court i'd be fined, stopped from owning pets and possibly jailed.
Sorry david, but I think you are the one who is confusing nature with mans intervention. You are confusing the cruel things that happen in nature with the sanitised, artificial " nice " world that we create for our pets and farmed animals.
The rabbits are not native to Australia. They are only here due to mans stupid intervention. In the countries where rabbits are native, the Calici virus is part of the natural ecosystem that prevents the rabbits from becoming a plague. All humans are doing is re-introducing a naturally occurring disease into a population that has been artificially kept from it.
I have lived through several plagues in my time on the farm including two mice plagues and several locust plagues. The plague strips every sceric of food from the enviroment until it either starves to death or is killed by disease.
One plague the mice where so bad they stripped all of the fabric door and roof linings from the cab of my truck. All that was left was the metal frame with its punched hole skeleton. It was seeding time and I had a seed cartage unit on the back of the truck. Every morning I would have to start the motor of the unit and auger out 150 litres of mice into a 200 litre drum from the shoots before I could access the seed. As I drove to the paddock, the mice would stare at me from the holes in the pressed metal cab and occasionally run up my trouser leg as I drove along.
The biggest plague species on the planet today is humans. Our breeding is totally and utterly out of control. We have reached such plague proportions that we have stripped the whole planet bare and affected the climate itself. The only hope mother earth has of stopping this current plague is to find a new disease that wipes us out, or that we stuff things up so much that we starve to death. Either of these is inevitable as this is the way all plagues end and balance is restored to the environment.
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