To a couple of college lecturers. This work explores various aspects of Fox hunting:
the number of Animals killed by Fox hunters; the variety of ways in which Fox
hunters kill Animals; the lies sustaining this activity; its class basis; and
its links to wider political and cultural issues. However, the primary concern
of this work is with the ideology of Fox hunting. Fox hunting is legitimized
by ideas that are specific to this particular example of Animal terrorism but
it also borrows ideas from ideologies that justify all forms of Animal exploitation
e.g. right wing, darwinian, naturalism. For many decades, the mundi club had
unsuspectingly taken it for granted that people were aware of the ideological
underpinnings of Fox hunting but we then came across two, seemingly liberal
minded, people who professed themselves hunt supporters - one of whom was a
feminist! Clearly this assumption needed re-examining. Fox hunting is vile enough
but the ideology which goes with it is in many ways even more revolting. It
was perplexing how liberals could live with such an illiberal component of their
political outlook. This work isn’t going to persuade people to give up Fox hunting
- although it would be nice to think it might. It seeks merely to outline the
lies, the ideology, and ideological implications, of Fox hunting, and thus make
it more difficult for liberals to tolerate such mental contamination. The first edition of this work was given a few complimentary
words so we were encouraged to produce a second edition. This edition has been
expanded, rewritten, and restructured. 1. Background.1.1: The Political Context of Fox Hunting.
1.1.1: The Shifting Sands of Politics.
In brutland,
the social and political context of hunting is changing. These changes are still
in flux so it isn’t possible to predict whether they are going to end up reinforcing,
or undermining, Fox hunting. This section highlights these changes and speculates
about their impact on the survival of the ‘unedifying in pursuit of the inedible’.
Firstly, the rise of the countryside alliance. Secondly, the increasingly political role of charles
windsor as the day of his ascension to the royal throne draws closer. Thirdly, the passing of the inter-war generation
and the end of its dominance of brutish politics. Fourthly, the rise of the third, post world war two
generation - the corporatized generation. Fifthly, mcblair’s sacrifice of the interests of
labour’s traditional supporters for the sake of labour’s traditional enemies. Sixthly, the decline, and possible disintegration,
of the tory party. And, Finally, the increasing number of so-called greens
expressing their support for Animal exploitation.[1]
The result of these social and political changes could be an
increasingly right wing labour government whose political constituency is rural
rather than urban; a greener, more environmentally friendly, tory party; or
an increasingly right wing green movement/party extolling the virtues of hunting
- as is being suggested by ‘the ecologist’ and a range of international Wildlife
organizations. 1.1.2: The Rise of the Countryside Alliance.
The mundi club has covered the formation and
rise of the countryside movement in earlier publications so only the main points
of that analysis will be highlighted here. This organization is politicizing
rural folk and one of its goals is encouraging wider support for Fox hunting.
In early 1995, george monbiot, simon fairlie, jules pretty,
and michael pimbert, wrote a series of articles in the guardian about the land
issue.[2] Monbiot’s article triggered off a large show
of support which resulted, in april 1995, in the formation of 'the land is ours'.
This group succeeded in generating a huge amount of publicity for its right
to roam campaign. In response to the widescale publicity given to ‘the land is
ours’ and the increasing prospects of a labour victory in the 1997 general election,
the landowning pharming elite and hunting brigades realized they needed to organize
a defence of their interests.[3]
In april 1997, they allowed their workers to do what they have never allowed
their workers to do before - to create a new trade union, “An unlikely new trade
union is being launched today. The union of country sports workers, comprising
an estimated 125,000 gamekeepers, ghillies, grooms, hunt employees, farriers,
beaters, stalkers and saddlers, are to .. campaign to save hunting in the event
of a labour government.”[4] This trade union wasn’t intended to defend workers’
interests but to defend the interests of their masters i.e. Fox hunting. This
must be a first in trade union history. The green welly brigade then created the countryside alliance
as an umbrella organization for the defence of rural interests. The countryside
alliance organized the countryside march into london in march 1998. This brought
about one of the most dramatic capitulations from a government in recent brutish
political history. Mcblair had appointed jack cunningham specifically to abolish
pharmers’ subsidies but after the countryside march he sacked cunningham and
thereafter pharmers were able to obtain subsidy after subsidy. In july 1999 the countryside alliance hired a team of propagandists
to start spreading the pro-hunting message, “The Countryside Alliance is "beefing
up" its ranks in its battle to prevent fox hunting being outlawed.”[5] It has been spreading the message through the
brutish establishment from the bbc to, in all likelihood, the ecologist magazine.[6] In october 1999 the rural rednecks finally decided to get political,
“The countryside alliance launched itself as a political movement yesterday,
saying that government plans to ban fox hunting had ‘lit the fuse’ and provoked
it into action.”[7] Whenever the landowning elite starts to mobilize, the first
thing it does is to marshal its support. In this case it tried to get as many
relevant organizations on its side as it could - whether by fair means or foul.
In august 2000, members of the rural alliance attempted to take over the national
trust in order to overthrow the trust’s ban on Deer hunting on its land, “Eight
qcs have combined to accuse the chairman of the national trust of using his
casting votes to prevent pro-hunt members securing seats on the trust’s ruling
council. One of the barristers, timothy cassel, claims that charles nunneley
was using proxy votes to influence the make-up of the 51 member body. The barristers,
backed by robin hanbury-tenison, former director of the countryside alliance,
and other leading hunt supporters, plan to make public their opposition at the
trust’s annual meeting in november.”[8]
This was followed by another attempted take over - this time the rspca, “The
rspca yesterday won a high court battle to stop pro-hunting members infiltrating
its ranks. Justice lightman gave the society the go ahead to bar people from
membership following “damaging” campaigns by pro-hunting groups. But the judge
said the society still had to consider each application on its merits, and not
just because the applicant supported hunting.”[9]
Clearly members of the rural alliance are busy exploiting all institutional
possibilities in the defence of their terrorist activities. The rural red-necks also made efforts to create a common platform
for Fox hunters, anglers, and shooters, in order to defend their mutual interests.
This is happening at the local level around the country. A Fox hunter wrote
a letter to a local newspaper trying to provoke people in these groups into
joining the Fox hunting cause by suggesting they would be next on the list if
Animal rightists managed to ban Fox hunting, “According to reports, saboteurs
director dawn preston, has confirmed fishing and shooting are next on their
list.”[10] It is likely
this local effort is being repeated across the country. The country’s landowning pharming elite have also been lobbying
the government, the media, the police, the secret services, and the judiciary,
etc to take a more aggressive stance towards the Animal rights movement. It
is as if the landowning elite had decided that the Animal rights movement is
too much of an irritant to their hegemony so they are using the old boys’ network
to contact their allies in the establishment to take whatever measures they
can to discredit Animal rights. As a result, the police/security services began
feeding black propaganda to the media about the (non-existent) threat posed
by Animal rightists in an attempt to undermine public support for Animals. This
culminated with a story in a number of national newspapers which blamed Animal
rightists for triggering off the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic (hereinafter the
f&m epidemic)! The consequence of this skulduggery was that in december
2000, when a young Animal welfarist protested about diseased, dying, and dead,
pharm Animals on a newcastle pharm, the maffia refused to take any notice of
him because they believed he must be one of those shit stirring, pot smoking,
Animal Liberation, terrorists trying to expose the cruel, and grossly unnatural,
scientific, practices carried out by the modern pharming industry. If they’d
listened to him they might have averted the f&m epidemic. The maffia rednecks
seem to have forgotten that when they start throwing shit around it’s best to
keep away from the fans. The mistake cost the government between £3 billion
to £6 billion in subsidies and economic damage to the countryside. The Animal
Liberation Front doesn’t have to do anything when the maffia and pharmers are
destroying themselves because of their own gross stupidity and bigotry. Militant, rent-a-mob, pharmers have been trying to generate
closer links with the countryside alliance, “Brian Haddock, the militant farmers'
leader, predicted Blair will face `a very very rough reception' if he goes to
the NFU without an aid package. He also said it would be disastrous news for
the `softly, softly' tactics of the current NFU leadership. Haddock said: `Blair
is willing to offer redundancy packages for mineworkers and steelworkers, but
nothing for farmers, yet we invest everything in feeding the British public.
We are burying farmers who have killed themselves every week.' Haddock, seen
as the rank- and-file champion, is expected to be elected vice-president of
the union later this week. He said yesterday: “I want the NFU to change and
link up the Countryside Alliance, the tenant farmers, the village post offices,
the local pubs, the parish councils. As farmers we are only 2 per cent of the
vote. If we form a wider alliance, we will be 25 per cent of the vote and a
voice that cannot be ignored.””[11] It was pointed out that as a result of the countryside march
into london in march 1998, the first mcblair administration capitulated to the
endless demands of the countryside alliance. From that point onwards the countryside
alliance has enjoyed huge political successes. The concessions they won from
mcblair, at the expense of the labour party’s natural supporters, have been
staggering. The countryside alliance has done far more for the interests of
tory voters than the tory party in opposition. It has done far more for the
interests of rural people than any other organization. One of the reasons for
its success is that there is no urban organization to outline and protect the
interests of urban people. The danger is that the countryside alliance will
become such a potent political force it could take over not only the labour
party but the conservative, and green, parties - perhaps not physically but
certainly ideologically. It might even replace thatcherism with a more traditional,
darwinian, ideology. Whereas thatcherism was embarrassed about handing over
lavish subsidies to pharmers, the monarchy, and rural areas, because it was
supposed to be promoting a free-market society, the darwinian ideology could
easily justify such subsidies as the spoils of war. 1.1.3: The Ascension of Charles Windsor.
Throughout his adult life, charles windsor has
always tried to stimulate public support for the royal family and pave the way
for his ascension to the brutish throne. It seems as if the closer his ascension
comes, the greater his political campaigning to build up public support for
his tenure as king of england. Windsor is not merely one of the country’s biggest
welfare benefit spongers, he’s also the country’s most prominent Fox hunters.
His ascension to power will give a boost to Fox hunting.[12]
In early july 2001 a documentary on brutish television revealed
that during the f&m epidemic, the maffia had kept windsor in touch with
developments (who says it never consulted the public?) and that at one point
he had contacted mcblair to demand an assessment of vaccination as an alternative
to the government’s, and national pharmers union’s, barbaric mass slaughter
policy. Mcblair held a meeting with senior maffia officials and decided to support
this policy which the government had ruled out since the start of the epidemic.
It would have been a dramatic change of policy. It was only when the government
failed to overcome the intense opposition of the red-necked, retarded, subsidy-loving,
thugs in the national pharmers union that mcblair was forced to abandon the
idea. The important point here is not that windsor has enough political clout
to get access to the prime minister and persuade him to adopt a particular policy
but that he is highly politically active - even though he is supposed to keep
aloof from brutish politics.[13] Windsor is also trying to stimulate public interest in green
issues and bring about mild green fairy political changes. He’s drawing together
supporters of organic pharming, alternative medicine, alternative energy, etc,
and trying to unite them under a pro-monarchist, pro-aristocratic, pro-conservative,
pro-hunting, and pro-Animal exploitation, banner. He’s continually cultivating
links with people in the media, the pop world, the acting world, the sports’
world, and the establishment. He’s using his contacts to help the organic pharming
brigade obtain more access to the media. The informal links he’s creating between
himself, his supporters, aristocratic greens, and the countryside alliance,
clearly poses a threat to the Animal rights movement.[14] The last thing that Animal rightists want is
for increasing numbers of people to align themselves under the banner of monarchism,
aristocracy, conservatism, hunting, and Animal exploitation. As the country’s biggest organic farmer he’s also been promoting
organic farming - although he’d never dream of mentioning the country’s gross
inequalities in land ownership nor the dominance of the landowning pharming
elite in parliament. He’s the most obvious example of the links between organic
pharming and Fox hunting. 1.1.4: The Passing of the Inter-War Generation.
The inter-war generation has dominated brutish
politics since the 1970s. This generation has propped up a range of institutions
such as the monarchy, the house of lords, the aristocracy, the church, the conventional
pharming industry, the tory party, the conventional family, etc as well as promoting
politically conventional values such as anthropocentrism, male chauvinism, homophobia,
patriotism, racism, the glories of the brutish empire, hunting/shooting/fishing,
and a range of legal, but highly addictive, drugs. This generation is now dying
out and its political power is fading.[15] The next generation, the first post-world war
two generation, are increasingly replacing them as the politically dominant
generation.[16] The
issues which are of interest to this latter generation, which include environmentalism
and Animal rights, are likely to receive far more prominence than they had when
the country’s political life was dominated by the semi-rustic, inter-war generation.
In america, the first political manifestation of this generational
change was the election of bill clinton - followed, in brutland, by the election
of mcblair. In the case of the royals this passing of the generations is happening
much more slowly than the rest of society - the so-called queen mother (sorry,
i don’t know her real name) belongs to the pre-first world war generation; liz
windsor belongs to the inter-war generation; whilst charles windsor is a member
of the first post-world war two generation. One of the oddities of mcblair’s administrations is his promotion
of policies which suit the interests not of his own generation but of the inter-war
generation such as those in the women’s institute - even though most of these
middle class, senile, bigots can’t stand him. Mcblair’s first administration
was the first to be composed mainly of members of the post-war generation (a
number of whom were communists as students) - it’s just unfortunate they’ve
been acting as if they were members of the previous generation (not surprising
for former commies). The mcblairites swept to power on a reformist ticket promising
to modernize the country and yet they have ended up lavishing the most enormous
subsidies on the country’s most antiquated and retarded industry; reinforcing
the legitimacy of the geriatric, reactionary, house of lords; evading all attempts
to ban Fox hunting; and acting as fully paid up members of political conventionality.
The chief features of what could be called mcblairism are becoming more and
more transparent - attacking friends and supporters who elected him into office
whilst fawning on his social superiors who despise him.[17] The passing of generations usually occurs quite seamlessly.
There are rarely cut and dried gaps in a country’s age structure - although
one emerged as a result of the carnage of the first world war. There may be
occasions when the shift from one generation to another is marked by a major
public event that makes the change transparent to all concerned but this has
not been the case in the current generational change. The passing of power from
the inter-war to the post-war generation has not, however, been progressing
smoothly. This is because the inter-war generation continues to hold on to power.
The longer the inter-war generation props up institutions which need to be reformed
or eased into the graveyard and the longer it promotes a range of politically
conventional values, the more it alienates the younger generations - not merely
the first, but the second, and third, post world war two generations. The inter-war
generation is having little success in fostering its values in these younger
generations.[18]
It has to be admitted, however, that the problems arising from
the current procession of the generations could be a two-way process. Firstly,
there is one serious exception to the proposition that the inter-war generation
is failing to foster its values in the younger generations - the mcblair administration
seems to have almost completely swallowed their values. Secondly, the first
post world war two generation doesn’t exactly seem to be pounding on the doors
of power demanding to take over the reigns of power in order to implement the
changes it wants to see. It could be that this generation is refusing to have
anything to do with their parents’ institutions because these institutions are
so entrenched as to seem unreformable - as seems to be the case with the house
of lords - but it could also be that this generation is simply ignoring their
political obligations - as will be argued, this feature seems to become more
pervasive in the succession of post world war two generations, reaching its
current zenith in what is called here the corporate generation. Alternatively,
perhaps the members of the first second world war generation believe that many
institutions will simply fade away if they don’t take any notice of them. The massive ideological
gap between the inter-war and the post world war two generations afflicts
the tory party. It has been reputed that the average age of the tory party’s
membership is about 65. The numbers of young people joining this geriatric
party, with their blatant senile dementia on europe, the malvinas, gibraltar,
northern ireland, nationalism, colonialism, pax americana, their devotion
to the countryside and pharmers, etc, are minuscule. The demise of the
inter-war generation means the tory party has to reform itself because,
if it doesn’t, more and more party meetings will be held in morgues. Most
tory politicians seem to display a morgue like sensitivity over a range
of issues which are supported by the inter-war generation but are not
supported by post world war two generations:
no such thing as cancer from cigarettes,
no such thing
as bse in Cattle,
no such thing
as bse in oomans,
no such thing
as bse in Sheep,
no such thing
as ecological damage,
no such thing
as stratospheric ozone depletion
no such
thing as global burning, etc. The only shame is that mcblair seems to believe that morgue
politics is the place to be.
The same generation gap also afflicts the pharming industry.
The average age of those in the pharming industry is similar to that of the
conservative party - which is not surprising because many tory party members/supporters
are pharmers or their fetlock-tugging, rural pharm hands.[19]
This is as true in america as it is in brutland.[20] The pharming
industry, like the tory party, is literally dying of old age. Young people don’t
want to join the morgue conservatives and they don’t want to be morgue pharmers.
They don’t see pharming as a glamorous, exciting, or rewarding, form of employment.
It requires seasonal commitment rather than the daily ‘work hard, play hard’
mentality of younger, urbanized, people. And young people don’t want to leave
their natural urban habitat where life is at its fastest and brightest.[21] The churches in brutland are also suffering from the passing
of the generations. However, surprisingly, it seems to be more successful than
either the tory party or the pharming industry at bringing younger people into
its fold. Many churches are changing their services to suit the younger generations.
Churches used to be full of solemnity, reverence, stilted quietness, penitence,
and morbid mustiness. However, some churches are being transformed into something
like mother and toddler clubs where children run wildly through the isles screeching
away as if they were in a kindergarten. There is chaos and noise where there
use to be order and peacefulness. This enables children to feel at home in a
church long before they realize they’re playing in god’s house. This behaviour
alienates many of the older members of the congregation who are accustomed to
the old ways of doing things but, as far as some younger vicars are concerned,
the alienation of the old is unavoidable for the sake of ensuring the church’s
long term survival. These generational changes in the church could have political
implications. Whilst the inter-war generation was in the ascendancy, the church
of england was not merely the tory party at prayer, it was utterly monarchist,
and a great supporter of Fox hunting, "The Church of England's General
Synod has rejected a call to ban hunting and intensive farming on Church lands."[22] If trendy vicars want to hold onto their younger
congregation they are also going to have to shift the church’s opinions away
from its politically conventional, traditional values. The demise of the inter-war
generation is causing the subsidence of the institutions and values this generation
once sustained. For many decades, the inter-war generation has blithely ignored
the interests of upcoming generations. According to the country’s inter-war
generation, it is perfectly acceptable:
* for pharmers
to commit criminal acts such as selling bse-infected bseef or defraud the european
community of funds and trigger off the foot and mouth epidemic; * for the
bbc to continue pumping out cookery programmes which completely neglect the
interests of vegetarians and vegans; and to continue producing war films/documentaries
in order to appease not only the war generation but the zionists working for
the corporation; and, * for
the government to promote tobacco, alcohol, tranquillizers, and gambling. As far as the inter-war generation is concerned, the only real
crimes being committed these days are by Animal liberationists’ rescuing Hamsters
or people smoking a harmless weed. No wonder the country’s politicians, pharmers,
and religious leaders are finding it so difficult recruiting young people when
they’d be expected to lie about such an extensive array of issues and on such
a grand scale. This generation is now at a political crossroads - members of
this generation either have to make greater attempts to foster their values
in younger people or watch their institutions slip into the ground. The tory
party is on the look out for new activists; the pharming industry wants new
recruits; and the churches are seeking a younger congregation. Whether they
succeed or not depends on how much they are willing to change to meet the different
values and beliefs of the various post world war two generations. 1.1.5: The Rise of the Corporatized Generation - the Domestication
Process.
Roughly speaking, if the first post world war
two generation was born between 1945 and 1960 and the second post world war
two generation was born between 1960 and 1975, then the third post world war
two generation consists of those born between 1975 and 1990.[23]
If the first of the post war generations is called the vietnam war generation
the third generation could be called the corporatized generation - it being
the first to have been brought up in a predominantly corporatized world. It
is the first to have been raised from birth in the company of television.[24]
Virtually all members of this generation have had television as their constant
companions throughout their lives. They watched television even before they
could walk or talk, “The typical american child now spends about twenty one
hours a week watching television - roughly one and a half months of tv every
year.”[25]
They continue to watch television as they grow older.
It was in the mid 1970s that multi-national corporations first
started targeting toddlers in commercials, encouraging these unthinking creatures
to pester their parents into buying a companies’ products, “Twenty five years
ago, only a handful of american companies directed their marketing at children
- disney, mcdonald’s, candy makers, toy makers, manufacturers of breakfast cereal.
Today children are being targeted by phone companies, oil companies, and automobile
companies, as well as clothing and restaurant chains. The explosion in children’s
advertising occurred during the 1980s.”[26]
The corporate generation have consumed corporate, mass manufactured,
food from birth. They continue to eat corporate food throughout their adult
lives. They not merely eat corporate food, they prefer it. Corporate food has
become the standard by which to judge how food should look, smell, and taste.
To corporate livestock, organic food looks imperfect, dirty, and second rate.
The corporate generation desires corporate entertainment whether
cartoons, theme parks, or amusement games (formerly in amusement arcades but
overwhelmingly on domestic games consoles), “Although the fast food chains annually
spend about $3billion on television advertising, their marketing efforts directed
at children extend far beyond such conventional ads. The mcdonald’s corporation
now operates more than eight thousand playgrounds at its restaurants in the
united states. As american cities and towns spend less money on children’s recreation,
fast food restaurants have become gathering spaces for families with young children.”[27]
This generation is so corporate-directed they even participate in corporate
public relations gimmicks, “The major toy crazes of recent years - including
pokemon cards, cabbage patch kids and tamogotchis - have been abetted by fast
food promotions.”[28] Virtually all the comics which this generation loves do lucrative
voice-overs for commercials advertising multi-national corporations’ products.
The prospects of these corporate comics saying anything of substance are negligible.
Many also engage in charity work to combat global poverty - often created by
the multi-national corporations they work for. But multi-national corporations
are not embarrassed by efforts to combat the poverty they have created. On the
contrary they love it. This is because the media never reveals they are responsible
for creating such poverty so multi-national corporations are able to look-good
sponsoring charity events to combat the poverty they have created. And the participants
who take part in charity events to combat global poverty don’t appreciate that
they too have helped to create such poverty by buying the products produced
by the multi-national corporations causing the poverty. Multi-national corporations
love comics who get involved in charity work because this significantly increases
the public’s affection for the comics which gives them a much greater public
approval rating which means they boost sales considerably. Multi national corporations
love to use comics associated with charity work because they hope to obtain
a share of the good willing and approval that the public bestows on these comics
for their charity work - which of course helps multi-national corporations to
further cover up their responsibility for poverty. The public would never dream
of a multi-national corporation causing poverty when it appears to be such a
friendly company that even comics dedicated to charity work for such a company.
Corporate comics play their part in this political charade because they know
that by doing charity work they will increase their public approval which will
enable them to increase the price they charge multinational corporations for
doing voice-overs in their commercials. This circle of mutually beneficial,
corporate comics, corporate consumers, and corporate companies, is however a
part of a spiral creating global poverty and global ecological meltdown. The corporate generation also desires corporate clothes. Corporate
logos on clothing are one of the prime ways by which the members of the corporate
generation like to express their status in society. It was noted above that
this generation prefers to eat corporate food - one of the reasons for this
being the status of eating corporate food. It is not only necessary to be seen
wearing corporate logos, it is necessary eat them as well. Today, the biggest
difference between quadruped livestock and biped livestock is that the latter
brand themselves. They have become as domesticated as livestock. Adding fundamentally to this domestication process is that
the schools attended by this generation are beginning to be funded by corporations,
“In 1993 district 11 in colorado springs started a nationwide trend, becoming
the first public school district in the united states to place ads for burger
king in its hallways and on the sides of its school buses.”[29] The same is also happening in brutland, “The general privatization
of schooling in britain has begun.”[30] During the thatcher years, brutish universities changed dramatically
as an increasing proportion of their revenue came from industry rather than
the state. The change in their financing has led to profound changes in universities’
purposes and objectives. Universities changed from being places in which students
and teachers sought the truth to being places in which students and teachers
sought to provide scientific rationales for the multi-national corporations’
financing the university. Whereas corporate comics bestow public approval ratings
and ‘feel good’ factors on multi-national corporations; students and teachers
provide multi-national corporations with the veneer of scientific truth. These
days whenever a multi-national corporation launches a new product, whether this
might be a new drug or a new commodity, they know have the backing of universities’
scientific expertise should anything go wrong. Multinational corporations need
science not merely to help them create new products but to defend such products
if they go wrong. In education, then, mcblair is following in thatcher’s footsteps.
What she has done for universities, he will do for schools. His vision of brutland
is a country which is a haven for global corporations where people receive their
education from corporate sponsored schools and universities, work for global
corporations, buy multi-national corporations’ products, and spend their leisure
time laughing at jokes written by corporate sponsored comics or participating
in charity events sponsored by multi-national corporations. The third post world war two generation has been raised in
a corporate culture; it eats corporate food; expresses its pride wearing corporate
clothing; seeks out jobs in the corporate world; and is entertained by corporately
sponsored culture. One of the paradoxes of this generation is that most of its
members are great supporters of individualism. This is because corporate propaganda
has sought to promote corporate individualism. Corporations have managed to
persuade members of this generation to express their individuality through possessing
multi-national corporations’ products and that, somehow or other, multi-national
corporations mass produce products which are specifically made for people who
use the corporate definition of themselves as individuals. As a consequence
of these developments, this rather gullible generation is almost completely
a-political and virtually every institution is suffering because of this generation’s
disinterest in anything beyond corporate induced happiness and corporate sponsored
reality. This generation is showing little interest in Animal rights and although
it might support a ban on Fox hunting it doesn’t care about the topic with much
passion.[31]They are by far the most domesticated livestock
produced to date. 1.1.6: Mcblair’s Right wing Drift.
Protection of Corporate Interests.
Mcblair’s administrations have been increasingly
sacrificing the interests of labour’s traditional supporters for the sake of
promoting the interests of labour’s traditional enemies. Mcblair’s dramatic
rightward shift can be seen in his preoccupation with the pharming industry
and the massive subsidies given to pharmers and his devotion to corporations
- dropping the proposed ban on tobacco advertising; increasing drinking hours
and freeing up the gambling world; support for gm crops; support for a massive
increase in the road building programme; the promotion of the mmr vaccine; support
for nuclear power; and the privatizing of london underground, and the health,
and education, services.
The Dominance of Rural Issues During the Blair Administration.
Mcblair’s right wing drift can be seen at its
most spectacularly in his capitulation to the pharming industry; his protection
of the ministry for agriculture, fisheries, and food;[32]
his belief that pharmers, after triggering off the salmonella in eggs epidemic,
the bse epidemic, the autumn 2000 floods, and the foot and mouth epidemic, are
"custodians of the countryside"[33]; his protection
of the house of lords; and his preoccupation with rural areas e.g. rural transport,
rural post offices, rural banks, rural housing, the effects of fuel increases
on rural people, etc.
Ruralites have
virtually set the agenda for mcblair’s administrations:-
the bse crisis. the reform of the house of lords; the countryside demonstration in hyde park and the
countryside march in 1998; opposition to a ban on fox hunting; the three month-long bseef war with france in the
autumn 1999; the promotion of genetic engineering; the refusal to take action over a range of bse policies; the tony martin case where ruralites demand the right
to blast people in the back with illegal, unlicensed, pump action, sawn-off,
shotguns; the fuel tax insurrection; the foot and mouth epidemic. This devotion to rural issues only came to an end in september
2001 after the suicide attacks in america. Is it any wonder, after four years
of this preoccupation with rural issues, that urbanites were getting sick and
tired of putting up with the yapping, whinging, scroungers in the pharming industry
and in rural communities? The government has stated that it wants to encourage
more organic pharmers. Most conventional pharmers may not want to change but
many may be left with no other alternative. If new people are brought into the
industry to become organic pharmers this may further boost support for Fox hunting.
Mcblair’s right wing drift has meant that he has no interest in banning Fox
hunting. 1.1.7: A Greener Tory Party?
Throughout the 1990s the tory party pursued
an increasingly hysterical, anti-european, campaign which led, in 1997, to a
landslide general election defeat by the labour party. This was followed, as
if the tories hadn’t learn any lessons of this defeat, by a second landslide
defeat in the 2001 general election. They managed to lose 6 million voters between
the 1992 and 2001 general elections. The days when the media spent a huge proportion
of its time outlining the tory party’s bseef-infected views on europe may be
coming to an end.
The disintegration of the tory party is leading some tories
to search for a new populist ideology to allow it to reconnect to the electorate
which has deserted it in droves over the last two general elections. They want
to appeal to the younger generations in society. Michael portillo, appearing
on a ‘Question Time’ special with all the candidates in the 2001 election for
the leadership of the tory party, mentioned a more inclusive party which would
consider the drugs issue and would look after the environment.[34] What is interesting here is that whilst portillo
is moving towards a greener, more libertarian, social agenda, other political
changes are heading in the opposite direction i.e. a more right wing labour
party and, as will be seen, a more right wing green movement - both of which
prop up the Animal exploitation industry. Portillo’s defeat in the conservative
party’s leadership election in 2001 showed that the inter-war generation was
still not prepared to give up power despite pushing the party into two general
election calamities.[35]
The decline of the traditional tory party and the rise of a more libertarian
tory party might make it easier to introduce a ban on Fox hunting. At the very
least the disintegration of the tory party would diminish parliamentary opposition
to a ban on Fox hunting. 1.1.8: A More Tory Green Party?
Over the last few years there has been evidence
of a right-wing shift in the green movement. There are an increasing number
of so-called greens expressing their support for the exploitation and slaughter
of Animals.[36] There has
always been a gulf in the green movement between those who align themselves
with the Animal rights movement and those who align themselves with the organic
pharming brigade and Animal exploitation. But this gulf is not merely growing
it is reaching a critical juncture. Thus, given that most organic pharmers support
hunting, the greater the green party’s support for organic pharming, the weaker
its support for a ban on Fox hunting. More and more greens have started condoning
Animal exploitation which means there is less pressure from greens for a ban
on hunting.
The inaugural meeting of the countryside alliance was mentioned
earlier. What was interesting about it was that it brought into the open one
of the country’s pharmer-loving green bigots. Charles secrett, director of friends
of the Earth, told the assembled Earth rapist pharmers that the problems of
the pharming industry and rural areas did not lay not with pharmers’ dirty,
and appallingly unnatural, pharming practices which have given rise to salmonella
in eggs, bse, the autumn 2000 floods, and the f&m epidemics, but with city
people, “Charles secrett, director of friends of the Earth, told the meeting
that a change in attitude was essential to help failing villages. “City people
must understand that the whole country needs a prosperous rural economy and
a robust farm sector, if they are going to get the type of countryside they
want and expect.””[37] And what
exactly was this countryside which he thought they wanted? In june 2001, secrett
was interviewed on channel four news and dismissed the idea of allowing pharms
bankrupted by the f&m epidemic to revert to Wilderness areas in order to
combat global burning. Here was the leader of one of the country’s major green
organizations who was more concerned with ensuring that pharmers continued receiving
billions of pounds in lavish subsidies rather than in protecting the country’s
life support system which the livestock pharming industry has ruthlessly suppressed
for the last half century thereby making a substantial contribution to the destabilization
of the climate. In the run up to the second fuel tax insurrection, planned
for november 2000, lord melchett resigned as head of greenpeace so that he could
go back to his pharm - whether he supported pharmers’ demands for the abolition
of the fuel tax escalator is not known but his resignation at this particular
time seemed highly mysterious. In january 2002 he announced he was acting as
an advisor to a major multi-national corporation. The mundi club has stated repeatedly that the so-called green
movement in brutland is run by pharmers for the benefit of pharmers whether
this is charles windsor or lord melchett. Not surprisingly, the head of brutland’s
environmental protection agency is also a bloody pharmer. There has always been a heavy contingent of organic pharmers
in the green movement. If the government brings about changes in the country’s
pharming industry this could lead to an increase in the numbers of organic pharmers.
The green party might try to reposition itself in order to persuade these people,
most of whom are likely to support hunting, to join the green crusade. The most blatant evidence of the green movement’s support for
Animal exploitation, and thus its shift to the right, is the increasing number
of conservationists in international Wildlife conservation agencies who have
been calling for national conservation/Wilderness areas to be turned into game
reserves so that hunting can used to provide ‘bush meat’ or a source of income
for people who live in or around these areas. The conservation movement’s views
about the conservation of the world’s rarest and most endangered species has
changed dramatically from protectionism towards a thatcherite ‘pay your way
to survive’ free market ethic. Just as in brutland, in the 1980s, when thatcher
turfed tens of thousands of miners out of their jobs and then let them get on
with the job of finding alternative employment, so the new green thatcherites
are telling the world’s most endangered species that their only chance of survival
is turning themselves into game Animals to provide a bit of sport for the world’s
richest and sickest thugs. The green movement’s terrorists now expect all Animals,
like all oomans, to find a job to pay their way ... or else they’re not going
to survive. The fact that Animals created the Earth’s habitability and are now
being expected to die for the financial benefit of oomans who are trying to
wreck the Earth, shows oomans’ power to sustain their oomano-imperialist delusions
i.e. that they can do whatever they want on the planet and that from now on
the Earth, and its Wildlife, are going to have to adapt to ooman interests.
The fact that some of these oomano-imperialists proclaim they are greens shows
what an appalling mess the so-called green movement is in. One of the main reasons for the colossal explosion in the consumption
of ‘bush meat’ is because greens and conservationists, who once protected Animals,
are now encouraging local people to hunt Wildlife whether for food or as commercial
trophies, “The wwf and the world conservation union, an alliance of ngos and
government agencies, both agreed new policies on indigenous people last year.
For the first time, the two organizations explicitly recognize the rights of
indigenous people to control their land.”[38]; “The largest environmental group in the continent (africa),
the world wide fund for nature, is pulling out of the region’s game reserves
and national parks. Senior wwf officials have admitted the organization’s traditional
role in wildlife preservation is no longer tenable. The wwf’s idea, shared by
many other conservation groups, is to integrate wildlife management back into
the community and stop it being seen as the sole preserve of white men. The
new york based conservation society now lists its prime activity as supporting
african-based field scientists and works to tear down the fences between people
and animals. In zambia, for instance, it aims to “help communities make informed
decisions about the sustainable use of wildlife.” It is a strategy that claude
martin has pursued since taking over in 1994 as director general from the more
traditionally minded south african charles de haes.”[39] The epitome of this rightward shift in the green movement is
the ecologist magazine which extols the virtues of hunting and, as a consequence,
seems to be adopting a right wing “survival of the fittest” ideology. One of
its editors also supported the fuel tax insurrection which was initiated by
right wing, anti-environmentalist, pharmers. The magazine increasingly sounds
like ‘Pharmers’ Monthly’. The green party and the green movement are not as affected
by generational stresses as the tory party, the pharming industry, or the churches,
for the simple reason that most greens belong to the first post world war two
generation.[40] The green
movement’s drift to the right may be the result of the ageing process afflicting
this generation, i.e. the older that people get, the more conservative they
become. Unfortunately, the corporate generation shows much less interest in
green issues than previous post world war two generations. The failure of the
corporate generation to take an interest in green politics means that the first
two post world war two generations are not being radicalized by newcomers as
the first post world war two generation was radicalized by the second post world
war two generation e.g. the dongas at twyford down and swampy. Many of the social
and political changes highlighted above could push the green movement in a more
right wing, anti-Animal rights direction. 1.2.1: The Brutish Killing Fields.
The slaughter of brutland’s indigenous Wildlife
was carried out primarily by aristocratic hunters and by what are now called
organic farmers. Throughout the medieval period, the aristocracy expropriated
large parts of the countryside some of which it designated as royal hunting
areas. Commoners trying to poach Animals from these areas were dealt with severely
- either imprisonment or hanging. During the colonial period many were transported
to the colonies. Besides the aristocracy, the only other people allowed to kill
wild Animals were pharmers in order to protect their slave Animals. Residual
elements of these royal hunting areas still exist today - especially in scotland.
During the two millenia prior to the modern period, pharmers
and the aristocracy felt no need to disguise their barbarism or blood lust.
They regarded hunting as a sport and just got on with slaughtering as many Animals
as they could. The consequence was the extermination of all the country’s charismatic
Biodiversity, “In Britain the elk and wild oxen were hunted into extinction
before the arrival of the Romans; the brown bears were killed off in the 10thC;
beavers were gone by the 13thC; the last English wolf was murdered in the 15thC;
wild boars by the 17thC.”[41]
"The European beaver and wild boar, both native to Britain until exterminated
in the 12thC and 17thC respectively."[42] After
wiping out so many indigenous species, hunters were forced to import a range
of Wildlife species to be used as game Animals. As a consequence, much of the
country’s current Biodiversity is exotic in origin, “The house mice arrived
before the Romans; the Normans brought fallow dear and rabbits; pheasants arrived
after the Normans.”[43] The importance that the aristocracy attached to hunting is
apparent from the following quote, “In England, dogs have been bred primarily
for hunting, and there are 26 recognized breeds of hunting dogs."[44] In the 20thc Deer stalking, Deer hunting, Fox hunting, and
Badger baiting, became the four major blood sports - solely because these Animals
were the largest left in the country after hunters had slaughtered all of their
predators. To argue as philip schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-glucksburg has done
that, “There is therefore no conflict of interest between shooting and conservation.””[45] is
to ignore history. Phil windsor criticises the ‘ignorance’ of townspeople about
how shooting and other country pursuits benefit Wildlife and the environment
but, in reality, it is his bloodlust which has perverted his mind and turned
him into an historical ignoramus. In the modern world, Fox hunters rationalize their activity
as a sport or the control of a pest/vermin. Increasingly they suggest that Fox
hunting is imperative for the conservation of the countryside. The conservation
ethic broke out like a rash amongst hunters only after the second world war
when they suddenly found themselves confronted with virtually nothing left to
slaughter. Given that pharmers had as much responsibility for decimating the
country’s Wildlife as the aristocracy, it is possible that it was pharmers who
made the connection between hunting and conservation and who proposed the historically
reality-defying nonsense that hunting was good for conservation. This is one
of the first examples of political denialism - not merely denying the truth
but asserting its opposite as the truth. Hunting was responsible for exterminating
brutland’s Wildlife (as well as much of that around the world) but hunters refused
to accept their guilt for what they had done and simply claimed that hunting
helps to preserve Wildlife. 1.2.2: The Brutish Spreading their Killing Fields.
When the brutish embarked on their period of colonial
acquisition, they took with them their ‘slaughter everything in sight’ outlook.
They decimated indigenous peoples and Wildlife in many countries around the
world. Just as was the case in brutland, colonial hunters exterminated the native
Wildlife and often ended up having to import ‘game’ Animals in order to continue
their killing spree. Some prospective brutish colonists displayed considerable
farsightedness. Realizing that colonists would decimate indigenous species,
they took with them game Animals from brutland to avoid the situation of looking
down a gunbarrel with nothing in their sight. If there was any Wildlife left
after brutish colonists had slaughtered the biggest and most defenceless Animals,
most of the remainder were exterminated by the colonists’ exotic imports. Between
them, brutish colonists and their domesticated/game Animals were a formidable
force which overwhelmed the unique ecological habitats of many colonies. Needless
to say, most brutish colonists were organic pharmers. East Africa.
“The fish that have vanished from lake victoria are
victims of the nile perch, a fierce predator that was introduced into the lake
by british settlers who wanted to fish it for sport.”[46] Australia.
"Until very recently in Australia there
was a marsupial wolf, the thylacine. This creature was a very efficient hunter.
It took to feeding on the newly introduced sheep and so was itself hunted and
eventually exterminated by farmers. The last identified one died in London zoo
in 1933."[47]
1.3. The Current Scale of Animal Slaughter in Brutland.
The brutish currently run one of the most intensive,
Animal exploitation systems in the world, “Animals slaughtered for meat in the
uk in 1996: 2,315,000 cattle, 18,040,00 Sheep, 14,221,000 Pigs, 711,980,000
spent laying or breeding hens and 35,840,000 turkeys.”[48]
The scale of the slaughter may not match that in america or china but the concentration
of the slaughter is far greater, "Annual death toll in the UK is 776,363,750
plus 669,000 tonnes of fish."[49] The
Animal slavery industry in brutland is so intense that despite the fact that
it is one of the smaller countries in the world it has one of the world’s biggest
Sheep industries and a major Cattle industry. In the uk in the 1990s there were
around 11 million Cattle and around 20 million Sheep,[50]
- and this is with a ooman population of 55 million!
In order to rear such a vast number of slave Animals, over
50% of brutland’s land area is used for pastureland. Of the 23% of the land
used for growing crops, a major part is used to grow food for slave Animals
rather than oomans. In other words, the vast proportion of land in this country
is used by the Animal slavery industry. In order to make this possible, the
Animal slavery industry deforested the bulk of the country. No wonder then that
barely 7% of the english countryside is covered in Forests. As a consequence,
after heavy and prolonged rainfall, the land is in the best possible condition
for the creation of widescale flooding.[51] But
this is far from being the only land required to sustain the brutish Animal
terrorism industry. The country imports vast quantities of feedstuff for its
slave Animals - mostly from third world countries - which often deprives third
world people of the land which they need to feed themselves or to protect their
country’s environment. The brutish Animal slavery industry promotes an ideology which
tries to cover up the existence of the country’s vast network of concentration
and extermination camps and encourages people to believe that Animal slaughter
is a normal part of civilized life - just as was done during the slaughter of
minority groups in europe during the second world war. In other words, the brutish
are eco-nazis in the same way that the germans became nazis during the second
world war.
In brutland, as in many other countries around
the world, the Animal slavery industry is: • the main cause
of deforestation i.e. Photosynthetic devastation; • the main cause of the suppression of Photosynthesis
(grazing Animals prevent the growth of new Trees); • the main cause of geophysiological devastation
(not merely deforestation but the devastation of swamps, wetlands etc); • the biggest contributor to flooding; • the main cause of the mass extermination of Biodiversity;
• one of the major causes of immizerization in third
world countries; (it will never be possible to eradicate global poverty when
huge areas of land are being used to grow meat for rich consumers living in
the over-industrialized world leaving the poor virtually landless) and, • by far and away the biggest contributor
to global burning, There has never been a time throughout this country’s existence
when a species has murdered such a wide range of species and such vast numbers
of Animals. The scale of this slaughter is unprecedented. The situation is similar
in other countries around the world. As a consequence, oomans’ slaughter of
Wildlife is now so massive they are causing the world’s sixth greatest mass
extinction of Wildlife in the planet’s four billion year long history. “Mankind
is causing the biggest wave of extinction since the dinosaurs were wiped out,
a scientist has warned. Former government scientist lord may said animal and
plant species are vanishing 1,000 times faster than normal. “There is little
doubt we are standing on the breaking tip of the sixth great wave of extinction
in the history of life on Earth. We have more land under intensive cultivation
which gets us closer to realizing the dream of agriculture since its dawn. That
is to grow crops no-one eats but us, not shared with weeds or insect pests.”[52] The pharming
industry is the biggest contributor to this mass extinction. Although in this
country many Wildlife species were pushed into extinction a long time before
the modern era, around the world the Animal slavery industry is the main cause
of the mass extermination of Biodiversity. |
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