Should domestic cats be eradicated?

more cargo cult science – this scapegoating of cats for human activities which are far more a threat to ‘wildlife’.

“The greatest pressure on many of these creatures are human activities. Changed agricultural methods have displaced the harvest mice from our crop fields. The removal of hedges to create large combine-harvester-friendly fields is a major habitat loss. The move towards monocultures on farmland have made these places into veritable deserts which do not support the food sources needed to sustain healthy populations of small mammals or of songbirds.

According to Felicity Lawrence’s work “Not on the Label”, since the 1950, Britain has lost around 60% of ancient woodland, 97% of meadow (habitats rich in flora and fauna), 200,000 miles of hedges and 50% of birds that depended on traditional (non-intensive) agricultural fields. Instead of a wide variety of fruit trees with different seasons (supporting insects) only a few varieties are grown in order to provide uniform produce for supermarkets. Modern crop fields are huge monocultures (often growing alien crops such as sunflowers and oil seed rape) treated with fungicides, insecticides and fertilizers. Small mixed farms have gone and vast tracts of land are, from a wildlife viewpoint, sterile deserts. Many orchards have been grubbed up because supermarkets have forced the prices down so far that fruit growing has become uneconomical. The now-vanished hedgerows and field margins of long grass once supported small mammals and great numbers of insects. The only verges and hedgerows left are those bordering roads where millions of creatures are killed each year by traffic. This is what is really killing Britain’s birds and small mammals. In trying to produce ever greater amounts of food ever more cheaply we have turned our once wildlife-rich country into habitat hostile to wildlife. However, since it is hard for wildlife lovers to change modern farming methods and markets or supermarkets demanding cheap, uniform produce, so they attack easier targets instead. Unless they are prepared to address the root causes of wildlife loss they cannot halt or reverse the loss.”

http://www.messybeast.com/cat-wildlife.htm

my indoor formerly feral cats are tops-everyone else in the building has had vermin problems except for me. and i have had pet birds all while owning cats- with no problems. keep your cats fed and cared for, trap-neuter-spay feral cat population and no feral cat problems. as for humans-well they’re not going to stop deflecting blame from themselves in trying to control the universe to their liking. cats and humans, dogs and humans- these are beneficial relationships developed over thousands of years. whereas what have liberals and niche cult scientists really done to improve life on earth for anyone- humans or animals?

mittens on February 2, 2013 at 10:01 PM