They've certainly not been eating the Melancholy Thistle and might benefit from a few decoctions from the vet. They look thoroughly miserable. As one who's said "How now?" to many a brown cow I bear them no malice as individuals but there is no doubt they set a depressing blight upon any area of land they occupy. It hardly needs spelling out. Just look at any patch of ground where they've spent an hour or two, look at the barbed wire and badly maintained gates, the smell, the way they huddle together in collective despondency.
There's a near palpable sense of strain in the words of any apologists for the dreaded 'Conservation Grazing'. Yes it's still happening, impervious to being comprehensively discredited.
Heres a recent 'tweet' found on Natural England's site desperate as ever. The brainwashed out to trickle down the brainwashing.
All this nonsense is part of a coordinated effort on the part of those who have a vested interest in cows and conservation grazing to combat a growing scepticism. Just as the manufacturers of Coca Cola want every man, woman and child to be drinking their product throughout the day, the cow industry is not content with just providing us with milk and butter but must invade every corner of the nation. Thus we now have Cow Appreciation day for gods sake. That they can afford to promote this indicates they're already making lots of money out of their business.Saw benefits of cattle grazing to improve heathland in Ashdown forest with @NaturalEngland colleagues pic.twitter.com/6f2NfXJIDv— Nigel Gibbens CBE (@ChiefVetUK) July 6, 2016
While we're on the subject of nonsense what about the story of the escaped lynx from the zoo? Panic fomented yet lynx were once common here and are quite harmless, while the introduced and largely non-native cattle we see in farms are responsible for deaths and injuries each year.
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