Bloomin Heartless French

lifes2short

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"Over the summer, owners discover that hotels charge extra for animals or even ban them altogether. This explains why you will often see frightened, lost, dogs wandering near motorway service stations or beach resorts."

that makes my blood boil, in fact my daughter is in Nice at the moment and saw some owners mistreating their dog which brought her to tears and no one stepped in to stop it, abandoning 100,000 to 200,000 a year is fecking outrageous
 

safrane

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Yet the RSPCA own website states over 40k.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/whatwedo/latest/facts

and thats just their charity.

Any animal treated in this way is appalling and it happens all over the world... mankind or mancruel. But just posting 'Heartless French' suggest the English are some kind of Saint, which is not really true.
 

rossyl

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Yet the RSPCA own website states over 40k.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/whatwedo/latest/facts

and thats just their charity.

Any animal treated in this way is appalling and it happens all over the world... mankind or mancruel. But just posting 'Heartless French' suggest the English are some kind of Saint, which is not really true.
The French are, at the very least, twice as bad as the figure you've found for the UK. So, focusing on them seems apt.

Also, if you look at this matter globally you would be comparing rich countries to poor countries, when it comes to animal welfare that is likely to lead to skewed results and I do not think a fair comparison ..which is why I didn't mention Spain. It is alsowhy the UK can be compared to a similarly wealthy France.

Lastly, I did some Daily Mail headline writing there, because I thought it might result in people reading the article (which was my ultimate aim), I thought it was funny, there was truth in jest given the subject matter and because of that truth within the jest on this topic, I don't think it offensive.
 

lifes2short

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it certainly sounds heartless to me reading that article, who the feck abandons a pet on the spot because hotels/resorts suddenly refuse to allow animals, that's just mind boggling
 
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Is this a by-product of the northern French, decamping to the south for all of August?

Any country that sells lamb/sheep brains as a matter of course, in their equivalent of Little Chef, cannot be judged
by the standards by which we might judge ourselves :as004:
 

nigw

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This chap in Italy takes some beating .......


Or Perhaps deserves a beating .......

How desperate and how hungry would you have to be to try to cook a cat to eat though? Easy to call it disgusting when you have a home to go to and food on the table.

Most of us enjoy meals on a daily basis that are possible because of an animal being killed, and with the exception of a minority paying a premium for quality animal husbandry, the public chooses to turn a blind eye to considering the quality of life or potential suffering of their meal.
 

GeoffCapes

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How desperate and how hungry would you have to be to try to cook a cat to eat though? Easy to call it disgusting when you have a home to go to and food on the table.

Most of us enjoy meals on a daily basis that are possible because of an animal being killed, and with the exception of a minority paying a premium for quality animal husbandry, the public chooses to turn a blind eye to considering the quality of life or potential suffering of their meal.

When I left school (before starting what I called proper work) I worked in a meat processing factory.
After telling my sister what went into sausages she hasn't eaten one since! :D

Loads of people like meat, but don't like how it gets to their plate.
I imagine most would struggle to kill an animal, but are quite happy for others to do it for them.

If we ever have a zombie apocalypse those how get squeamish about such things will be some of the first to go.
 

Wanderer

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You should see what went into Warbies bread vats on the night shift mainly manned by us then students.

At the time the local Bolton word was 'Grozz' and it was basically a mixture of phlegm, spit, bogies (or 'crows' as we called them then), aka 'Grolly' and they were adept at producing large amounts and propelling it huge distances. Those skills are all lost now.
 

2b1ask1

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As a regular producer of game pie and other meat products to the family table. I am far happier eating game be it pheasant, duck, venison, rabbit, goose, boar or anything else considered game, than I am some factory bread and force fed beast that never saw the light of day or felt the wind under its wings. The creatures I am happy to butcher were having a great life up until some bu99er shot them! All of my kids have warmed to this way of thinking and yet Jeanette feigns shock if she walks into the kitchen when I'm butchering. She on the other hand is happy to break open a cling-film wrapped lump of hormone enhanced, water plumped innocuous meat sat on a sanitary towel (in case anyone should see a speck of blood) that met the abattoir but never freedom!

Then there is the whole 'reformed' humans that have turned vegetablists or vegroans and feel it is necessary to inform you at EVERY meal of their now virtuousness ignoring the airmiles of their quinoa and avocado squash....
 

Andyk

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Where is Phil...Thought he may have joined in...Living there Phil would be able to comment first hand.