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4. Farmers are already facing great difficulties from economic shocks like Brexit, Covid, Ukraine and Hormuz in a short span of time, and further strain is unwe
by mopsi 6mo ago
4. Farmers are already facing great difficulties from economic shocks like Brexit, Covid, Ukraine and Hormuz in a short span of time, and further strain is unwelcome.
- Planktonne 6mo agoEagles are also dealing with other stuff (arguably more significant-- e.g. habitat loss), but that's an irrelevance to this issue. The potential predations of a small number of eagles nationally will make very little difference to the enormous number of sheep kept by a large number of farmers. They can handle the strain, and if it's really somehow too much, there are mitigations short of extinction available to them.
- 9dev 6mo agoThere will always be some reason against a measure that doesn’t immediately benefit humans in the short term but yields benefits in the long term.
- techterrier 6mo agoIm not sure how much sympathy they get about brexit!