i hate meeces to peeces.!

[Guest guest]

>Whether it's okay for a vegan institution to employ a cat as a mouser

>is left as an excercise to the reader

 

 

Ian,

 

you obviously missed the furor when it was discovered that Plamil killed

come mice at their factory. cant remember whether it was by a trap or by

a cat but " the angry brigade " ran with it for ages. real shame as

Plamil had been *the* only vegan company for years and years and done

more than any to support and promote veganism. unfortunately, the

proportion of angry brigade within the vegan community is high. vegan

status and complaining like hell seem to go hand in hand.

 

as someone that has run a wholefod shop in a city centre my sympathies

were with Plamil. partly because " the angry brigade " do little positive

or ocnstructive and partly because city mice are filthy. the whole issue

of vermin being vermin because they pee and poop where ever they go makes

it close to war. in fact, anyone that peed and pooped on my food would be

treated with a similarly ruthless zeal. bare handedly. there place is

outside where there is plenty of food fullstop. if they cross the line

and come insde, they are giving up their lives.

 

i know at the time folks wittled on about ethical mouse traps but when

you are in the food industry, either in a city or the countryside, it is

a task worthy of King Canute to try and stop the little bleeders. and i

have noticed a double standards as i have never heard of vegan boycotting

cornflakes and wheat because field mice die as it is harvested ...

 

as consumers we all would want clean food. in my case, it took me months

to work out where the stink was coming from until i left some brown paper

bags out of a worksurface and came back the next day to find the trail

marks of dried pee and poops.

 

sometimes you have to think of beasties as little people and ask

yourself, " what kind of little people are these? " . vermin would be

pretty nasty, drunken thuggish and self-serving yobs if they were. not

the sort of folks you would have partying round you home, throwing up in

your pantry, stealing your breakfast in their doc martens.

 

john

[Guest guest]

> as consumers we all would want clean food.

 

Idealsitic and ethical as they are, I would also imagine that Plamil

are bound by the same health & safety & food hygene standards as any

other company in the food business, so probably are legally bound to

take prescribed remedial action.

 

Much as I like sonia's story, somehow I can't imagine yer average H & S

inspector wearing Arthur Ling pleading " well we've got gerbils under

the floorboards and they are sorting it out, honest! "

 

Cheers Graham

 

 

PS. Good point about the cornflakes and colateral deaths in fields.