D.E.F.R.A have been selling T.B.-infected beef for human
consumption because a. it’s almost-completely-safe and b. it’s profitable. At
the same time, it has been using the argument that T.B.-infected cattle are a
health risk to humans as a reason for badger culling. And they don’t seem to
think this is problematic. That was the news item that kicked off this week.
It’s a wonder I make it to my Tuesday blog without going up in a puff of smoke.
Surely this comes in the same category as – ‘We must do
something about the welfare budget’ – hence cuts to the incomes of the most
vulnerable in our society, put next to the other new news that M.P.s (who’ve
done so much for us of late – pointless, illegal wars, global financial
meltdown, Michael Gove) must have a 10% pay increase. There is ‘nothing’ David
Cameron can do about it apparently. Pay increases for M.Ps must be like the
weather. His hands are tied. He is powerless against this juggernaut of
pigswill. There is no way out of this
unfortunate impasse. OMG.
What else could we throw together like nuclear particles of
fatuousness that would explode in a Hiroshima of utter shite?
The Olympics v poor
quality sports provision in state schools and stolen playing fields.
Posturing about human rights abuses in other countries v colluding with America to abuse the
human rights of our private citizens – Prism.
Posturing about human rights abuses in other countries v secret police squads set up to spy on
lefty organisations and the victims of crime.
Public spending on palaces v spare room tax for the poor.
Maybe as a poet it is my artistic duty to welcome the opportunity
to contract T.B. Perhaps I should live in an attic in the nineteenth century
also and write with a quill pen. But then I think I also need to be a white
bloke called Keats.
But let’s get back to badgers. If it’s all fine and dandy
and ok to feed to the peasants (oh yes – did I forget to mention – beef from
the infected carcases is not being sold to Claridges) why are we culling
badgers? The meat from infected carcases is apparently OK for school and
hospital canteens so what’s with the whole badger thing???
Oh my head!