As some of you may already be aware, the government has given the go ahead for badgers to be culled in England this autumn as part of measures to protect cattle from tuberculosis. I've long been a supporter of killing these disease ridden vermin and have longed for the day when I could go out with a baseball bat and club a few badgers to death. However despite this good news I am dismayed that the cull will be carried out by trained marksmen who will shoot the badgers at night after putting food outside their setts. Reading between the lines it would seem my preferred method of clubbing the ****s would be deemed illegal. Anyone know how I can go about joining this lucky group of marksman so I can enjoy shooting the ****ers and watching them die in agony?
It's easy. The club is open to men with small penises who need to shoot defenseless animals to make them feel more manly. You should have no problem getting accepted
Why doesn't anyone eat badgers? We eat rabbits but badgers look like there's more meat on them and they're no more or less diseased than rabbits. Anyone ever eaten one? If they occur naturally and we need to lower their numbers, why not eat them? "It's the ciiiiiiiii-rcle of liiiiiife"
After my small penis thread yesterday, I don't feel quite so inadequate anymore. Badgers are disgusting disease vermin and deserve to die.
You could apply the same criteria to Glaswegians but no one's suggesting eating them. Actually no, thinking about it, there's more meat on a badger than your average weegie.
No,you can't, that would be cannibalism which is pretty unhealthy before you even step into the ethical minefield of special cannibalism. Whether you like it or not, we're omnivores and top of the food chain. Seriously, they're naturally occuring mammals that pose a threat to livestock - it's our duty to either eat them or feed them to things that we will eat.
Being serious for a moment, the evidence for this is rather flimsy. A lot of research has found little or no evidence of TB transferring between badgers and cows. Most likely the biggest cause is locking cows up in sheds in close quarters for months on end.
Feeding them offal (cannibalism, basically) can give them Bovine TB as well as a host of other horrific diseases. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16700473 To be fair, our commercial farming practices have caused way more issues than any wee badgers could cause. It does seem a bit rich that the bodies calling for the cull have caused more dangerous stuff to be in our food chain through bad (sickening) practice. But, that kind of brings me back to my original thing - we eat other naturally occuring mammals in the UK (venison, rabbit etc) and our diet's meat content used to be mainly made up of things like this (along with fish and birds) so I reckon, at some point, people used to eat badgers and used to eat them heartily. Instead of throwing away carcasses we've killed, we could sell them to some **** like Blumenthal. I'd eat a badger If it was going to be killed anyway, wouldn't this be much more responsible than intensive livestock farming?
Here you go Bib: http://huntergathercook.typepad.com/huntergathering_wild_fres/2009/09/badger-roadkill-burgers.html By the way, I'm not against people eating meat. I just wish people were a bit more discerning. The likes of venison cooked rare on a bed of kale is lovely. A piece of tasteless, mass-produced chicken covered in breadcrumbs and deep fried to hell and back is an insult to both chickens and humans.
If your tried to kill a badger with a club it would either severley mame you or even kill you. They are crazy bastards
They look relatively easy to skin as well. I would've thought they'd be perfect in a slow-cooked kleftika-style stew. I'm trying to get my kids into this "If you're not willing to kill it, you shouldn't be able to eat it" mindset. What really gets on my chebs is this lassie I work with - won't eat vegetarian food but refuses to eat meat if there's bones in it or looks like an animal on the plate. When people have become so detached from the methods of killing the things they eat, they shouldn't be allowed to eat meat. Both my eldest lassies have killed fish that they've later eaten - it's good for you to know that, if you want to eat meat, there's a wee animal somewhere along the line getting malkied. If the experience of tickling a fish's gills makes a child vegetarian, then fair dues - I'm a voracious meat eater but I could go veggie no bother. Eating meat means killing things to get it. Too many kids eat breaded lumps of re-processed meat without even thinking about what they're eating. Seriously, we shouldn't throw all this badger meat away. If the cull goes ahead, give the carcasses to struggling families who can have a big pot of stew with it - if they're too stupid or reactionary to cook with a carcass then they should either be vegetarian or starve
If I had the wherewithal I'd fly in a gang of Honey Badgers from Africa and replace our UK Badgers with them. I would then retreat to a safe distance and watch the ensuing hilarity as some people attempt to club a Honey badger.
Eating Badger meat sounds fine, we could also use their pelts for clothing. Remember God put all wild beasts on earth for us to do with as we please
Indeed, I've been thinking of setting an Elishan type she-Bear on ER because he keeps calling me baldy.
Isn't the badger the largest wild carnivore in the British Isles? How rubbish is that? We need to ship some bears or wolves over, our climate would suit them (especially in northern Scotland). Frankly, I'm sick of us having the shittest animals in the world.
