Pardon me. Should have been Packham.

The recognition of an animal as not just a thing to be disposed of, but as a conscious being capable of suffering; a being to which we have a deep genetic connection.

[Daphne – He wasn’t upset because it was an animal that suffered. He was upset because it was a rare thing of great beauty, prized in Britain and shot in Malta. You wouldn’t see Chris Packham crying over a chicken as he puts it into the oven. That is how I, too, see the situation. I am against bird-killing not for cruelty reasons but for environmental reasons and the destruction of grace and beauty. I don’t give a damn about chickens. I eat them.]

By remaining inured to the suffering of these distant cousins of ours we are in effect being lost along the wayside on the long march of humanity.

In a few decades the actions and attitudes of these hunters will seem every bit as appalling as medieval torture. What it means to be “human” changes and evolves very fast, and these people are becoming a little less human with every passing day.

Why is no proper enforcement happening? Why all this massacre?

Never been moved so much until I watched Episode 4. What an irresponsible bunch of hunters and an incompetent police force. What is happening as filmed by Chris Packham’s team show pure madness, violation of Laws, a land where hunters rule. Absolute madness.

Shame on the hunters who are irresponsible and on the authorities who may although are doning surveillance, are not doing enough to put an end of this massacre.

This is good:

“On Thursday, the hunters’ federation FKNK filed a judicial protest against the Police Commissioner and against the Data Protection Commissioner, insisting that the police had a duty to “prevent the crimes being contemplated by Mr Packham.” ”

It’s Minority Report all over again. The police in the film could at least see the crime being committed in the future, but in this case it’s still ‘contemplation’.

Do you know what? They should arrest all hunters to prevent the crimes being contemplated by them, that of shooting protected birds.

Just buy a black T-shirt with a picture of a bird on it, and go for a walk in the countryside. The hunters will take care of the rest.

I often see calls for a referendum as pathetic and childish, but I’m really looking forward to this referendum on spring hunting.

This madness should stop.

However, police who sympathize with hunters are definitely criminals and it’s a shame that we still have criminal policemen on our force.

Really, for shame.

http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/news/chris-packhams-t-shirt-design-2014

There you go.