Just how

[brionon]

much do Farmers love their animals ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ir eland/7640667.stm

[Ethel]

Well that particular person - not a lot.

Most farmers need to look after their animals to get a good return -sick and diseased animals cost a farmer money.

[B00]

What kind of farm was it? Llamas? Guinea Pigs? Hardly typical farm animals are they?

As Ethel has already said, most farmers take good care of their animals, they have to- they are their livelihood afterall.

As for this particular "farmer"- words can't express how I feel about his dispicable behaviour.

[terambulan]

not a farmer nor a farm with a name like 'Littleacre'. Says it all......just a tinker!

[coco pops]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7637925.stm


Another bad farmer, but most farmers care for their animals.

[tigerlily11]

Llamas are becoming big buisness these days for farmers. Can't think what was going on in this ones head though.

[andy-hughes]

Farmers don't see animals in the same way as standard householders.

For a farmer, his animals are an investment, and a way to realise a profit, so his interest is concerned with keeping them healthy and raising them for which ever product her dervies from them. Sentimentality is never an issue.

Householoders on the other hand have pets. They develop a relationship with their pet, and invest time and emotion in that relationship.

This is the gulf between 'city' and 'country' people. City people find the notion of hunting animals barbaric, country people, with their emotionless interaction with animals around them have no problem in hunting them for sport.

So the short answer is - farmers do not 'love' their animals, but this is obviously not a commercial farming scenario, more lke a small-holding where leglect is endemic.

[LoftyLottie]

Andy, your views are very simplistic. Us country folk are just as divided in our views as those in towns. I can assure you that a great deal of us countryfolk (and I couldn't live more rurally and am surrounded by farmland) are violently opposed to hunting for sport. I can also assure you that a lot of farmers do 'love' their animals and can become sentimental, but have come to terms with the fact that they have to go to slaughter because that is the nature of their business.

[LoftyLottie]

Don't let the Countryside Alliance fool you Andy, they don't represent the majority! ;o)

[LoftyLottie]

Me again Andy,

You might be surprised to know that a great deal of the shoot participants on the estate we live on are actually the rich city dwelling friends and acquaintances of our local landowner who come up for fun weekends!!

[tigerlily11]

You go Lottie. It's nice to hear not every one has been sucked in by the countryside alliance.