"Animal Justice MP Mark Pearson says phasing out livestock is more important than stopping feral cats"

From 'The Land', 21st Feb. 2017.

http://www.theland.com.au/story/4482175/mp-defends-feral-cats-again-says-phasing-out-livestock-is-more-important/?cs=4941

Is Mise, as no one else probably gives a rats about this, I will bite, just like a feral cat. Mark Pearson represents a certain constituency within society, attempting to balance the lunatic fringe led by The Shooters and Hooters, who favor their feral constituency doing the work of the cat feral's, but with guns.

I personally have little sympathy for feral's in general, including all those mentioned above. I hope we are not going to have another discussion about guns. With you favoring guns for all, including five year olds, and I invoking memories of the crazed gunnie Turnbull and NSW's number one hunter Tony 'Wombat' Azzi. I hope not.

The most likely outcome is cane toads and cats are permanent. Cat pets will always provide new breeders. Zoos will hold increasing types of disappeared wild life and so the Oz small animals may end up there. Foxes , wild dogs and black panthers will find a balance with chooks , livestock and edible cats.

Apparently he's also a big fan of phasing out native Australian wildlife. He'd have to be, if he's such a big fan of cats. They should rename themselves the 'Protection for Cute Little Kitty-Cats but Bugger all the Other Animals Party'.

Why can't we just use biological warfare on the bastards (the cats, not the weird sick ailurophilics - although....)? It's not a perfect solution, I know, because they'll eventually become resistant to whatever horrible cat plague the genetic engineers cook up - but then we could employ a different horrible cat plague. It's 2017, and we are quite good at genetic engineering these days. Surely we could win at biological warfare against some dumb animals?

After years on fish and chips a spear fisherman in Qld had his leg taken by a shark. Like bulls in Spain the fish are slowly learning. We may see schools of mackerel and bream moving in on surfers like piranha in Brazil. When humpback whales get a taste for shredded human the game's over.

Animal Justice MP Mark Pearson and any like him splits some of the lunar vote from the Greens.

The Greens also hold that introduced feral animals are now an indispensable(!) part of Australian wildlife and must be preserved. Examples of that could be brumbies and camels.

However there are many other ways Green left in particular roll logs in the way of preserving Australia fauna and flora and the successful and economic management of those. Greens for instance, are in denial of their own claimed sustainability policy, by also having an open door for boat people and immigration, demanding that Australia take the millions of overpopulation from countries where religious fundamentalism prevents the education and emancipation of women and the availability of birth control and abortion.

Neither 'Animal Justice' nor Greens take any responsibility for long term policy or even ensuring that policy is comprehensive, coordinated and can be paid for. They take the easy road of headlines and stirring, to gather votes from the young, uninformed and emotional.

I see gun denialist Paul1405 is back with attitude of no guns for anybody, army and police included. LOL

Grass fed livestock sure causes damage to the environment but that damage is not permanent and is getting less and less because the impact can be properly and successfully managed.

If no livestock, how else could essential protein food supply be sustained to nourish the world human population of over 7 billion, daily?

paul,

What have you or any of the Greens done towards eradication of feral cats?

Any Green sponsored and monetarily supported sanctuaries for native animals?

Any Greens actively getting rid of feral cats?

Nothing else could be expected of this person whose sole reason for being in parliament is 'animal justice'. There are laws to deal with cruelty and mistreatment of animals, but since when did animals have the right to justice!

This is real lunatic fringe stuff, to be expected only from freaks and pagans. It again shows the studity of having a senate, when nut jobs can gain a position with very few votes. This bloke should be banished to an island where he could grow lettuce to eat.

The clown actually gets to have a say in legislation vital to our future!

JF Aus, "If no livestock, how else could essential protein food supply be sustained to nourish the world human population of over 7 billion, daily?"

In Cambodia, green celebrity Angelina Jolie is showing the way by cooking tarantulas and scorpions for HER family (NOT Brad's).

There just happened to be photographers there at the time, but not in the First Class of the jet.

Could there be a verging export market here?

"One evening several friends went out to a local Chinese restaurant for a celebratory meal. Half way through the meal one of the party suddenly started to cough and choke. Thoroughly alarmed they rushed her to hospital and she had to undergo minor surgery to remove a small bone stuck in her throat.

The surgeon who removed the bone was somewhat perplexed as he did not recognise the type of bone found. He therefore sent it off for analysis and the report came back saying that it was a cat bone.

The public health department immediately visited the restaurant to inspect the kitchens and in the fridge they found numerous frozen cats, half an Alsatian dog and several rats all waiting to be served up."

Remember our motto here at 'Paulie's Prepared Foods'..."WHEN COOKED IT ALL TASTES LIKE CHICKEN!"

Paul1405,

Your Greens hypocrisy regularly cooks your goose. Looks like you've done it again.

The Egyptians embalmed cats as mummies and tom-cats also. The holy cows of India get hand-outs and feral cats have earned their keep.
"Grass fed livestock sure causes damage to the environment but that damage is not permanent ". Clean coal organic cow-food is Green vegetable environment grass-roots consumer rights.

biological warfare - I agree

I heard somewhere that there are an estimated 1.5 million feral cats here and they eat 3 small animals (birds, lizards, marcupials) each per night. Thats staggering.

"Fortunately, a tiger turning to human prey is rare.
A tiger usually makes one large kill every week. For India's 1,700-odd tigers, that adds up to more than 85,000 kills in a year.
If humans were part of a tiger's natural diet, and since there are people everywhere in India, a good number of these 85,000 kills would be humans.
The truth is, less than 85 people are killed or injured in a year by tigers here.The most comprehensive study of deaths due to tiger attacks estimates that at least 373,000 people died due to tiger attacks between 1800 and 2009, the majority of these attacks occurring in South and Southeast Asia."
Feral cats are breeding larger size beasts and may be forming into packs.