Beautiful Beasts?

What should be said about Sheffield Wildlife Trust? At times I lead towards feeling a touch sorry for them before remembering so much they've done that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Perhaps simply laughing is the best approach.

Not long ago they put a piece in the local paper with the headline "Beautiful Beasts of Blacka Moor". Now looking back over recent postings here what animals would anyone think were being referred to?

But you would be wrong. Not red deer but farmed cattle!! Think about it. The deer are wild, our largest wild mammal, are majestic in appearance and independent in habit, come and go at their own will, avoid people and cause no difficulties for anyone; they are here all the year and raise young in Blacka's characteristic wild woods. Cattle were brought here for the first time less than a year ago, are not wanted by the local people and users of the moor, and have brought with them the enclosure of the site with barbed wire and the erosion of Blacka's special soft footpaths.

Wildlife Trusts claim to be scientific and rational organisations, but what is this one up to? Let's be honest, it's pure shameless propaganda that treats people like children and insults our intelligence. They want to take on the role of mummy, who knows we don't like the evil tasting medicine so she pretends to taste it herself, while all the time talking about how yummy it is.

Good Lord protect us.