I didnt want to derail Treebees thread so.........

In general a cull is carried out to control population. If one species is gaining the upper hand over another then humans decide to cull the stronger one.
I think this is wrong, not because all the fluffy animals that die, but because it is interfering with natural selection.
You could claim that in doing the cull and with our ever expanding knowledge of everything that culling is our way of keeping balance and therefore part of evolution, what do you think?

I think nature has its own balance and if we didnt f*** with it so much in the first place, it wouldnt be needed, if you know what i mean.

Some people say War is a way of culling the human race - HORSEs*** we have plenty of other ways of wiping ourselves out.

But as far as animals go, if we didnt tinker with them so much in the first place then they wouldnt get out of control or nature would find its own way of killing them off.

Mind you we have made enough species extinct now to ruin natures great plan.

With you all the way there Treebee !

Almost every time we are forced to cull animals it is either because we have introduced these animals into places that have no natural predators or we kill off the predators and that upsets the balance of nature too.

It has happened with rabbits in Australia and red deer in the highlands of Scotland and now it is happening with seals - as only a few examples.

Humans are a blight on the ecosystem of the earth and in fact I sometimes think that we are simply a virus that is here to make the earth sick.

Maybe this is a little bit off the point of what you guys are talking about but when there was the foot and mouth out break in the UK there was a lot of culling of animals to stop them getting the disease. But what I never got is why they didn't just keep the animals indoors nice and warm?

Hi Heltha...

As there is no actual cures for F & M or BSE the only thing they could do was quarantine and cull. Even what is called "contigious" culls were allowed if the infected animals were in a nearby farm and if they had shown no signs of the disease.

Foot and Mouth was made worse by farmers illegally moving infected animals around when they shouldn't have and BSE was caused by farmers feeding their cattle on the rendered carcases of other animals. Cattle are vegetarians but they made them into carnivores by feeding them with this muck. This practice is now banned of course.

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If I start to rabbit too much you have the control of the mouse !