Feral Indian Parakeets in UK

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posted:

>If anyone suggested shooting all human immigrants, there would be an

>outcry, so why is it acceptable to kill feral animals?

 

 

Killing & sometimes eating human immigrants is actually among

the oldest of organized human activities.

 

This distinguishes us from some " lesser " primates, who

restrict their organized exterminations to killing & eating lice.

 

Of historical & anthropological note is that purges of feral

species were introduced as an " ecological " practice by one Jorian

Jenks, who rose to prominence as agricultural expert for the British

Union of Fascists.

 

Jenks wrote circa 1935 that the hypothetical fascist

government he advocated would take " Effective steps...to cope with

the host of rabbits, pigeons, rooks and other vermin who now levy a

heavy toll on our fields. A corps of expert vermin-destroyers

equipped with up-to-date apparatus will clear each district

systematically. "

 

Later, as editor of the journals Rural Economy and Mother

Earth, and as secretary to the Soil Association in the 1940s and

1950s, Jenks helped to shape the views of nature now predominating

among environmental policy makers worldwide.

 

Of further note is that in Australia the much older crusades

against rabbits and dingoes as supposed threats to sheep began

expanding into general pogroms against other introduced species with

particular vigor in the late 1960s--just as Australia moved to

dismantle the " White Australia " policy which had barred Asian

immigration since 1901.

 

Since the " White Australia " policy formally ended, in the

early 1970s, roughly half of all immigrants have come from Asia,

raising the Asian share of the population from near invisibility to

almost 5%.

 

Efforts to purge non-native animals have proportionally

intensified, representing a transference of hostility toward human

immigrants toward " aliens " who can be despised, persecuted, and

killed with impunity.

 

The same transference became evident in the U.S. as Mexican

immigration accelerated during the past two decades, and in Europe

as Islamic immigration increased.

 

 

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