From: lessgovt@gmail.com   
      
   [The Great Goat War of Southern France, April 14, 2023, NY Times]   
   comment by Edith Crowther, April 25, 2023:    
   60% of all mammals on Earth are livestock, mostly cattle and pigs, 36% are   
   human and just 4% are wild animals. Needless to say, this is a new phenomenon,   
   or relatively new. It is not only mammals that are suffering of course – all   
   animal and plant    
   species are also being decimated as a result, The power of parables goes back   
   to the dawn of humanity as a species – and this goat parable has as much   
   power as stats, perhaps more.   
   Humans love stories – but we like them to reflect a realistic truth. We can   
   be fooled by lying tales for a while, but not for long. The current tissue of   
   lies in the mass media about the need for Growth is impressing less and less   
   people the longer it    
   goes on – though the mass media will not report this development, and in any   
   case it is difficult to establish factually, it is just an impression I get   
   from non-mainstream publications and even – with increasing frequency –   
   from the great    
   powerhouses of the MSM like the New York Times, the Daily Mail, the Guardian,   
   and probably many European ones which I do have access to without a   
   subscription.   
   Certainly the German TV channel Deutsche Welle (DW), which broadcasts a lot of   
   its material in English for the Anglosphere, is at the forefront of ecological   
   damage reporting on a continuous basis – and so is the mass TV channel Al   
   Jazeera, for some    
   reason, probably because it is watched a lot in the Developing World and this   
   is where the greatest concentration of environmental activists are to be found   
   at the moment, since the destruction is happening NOW there, whereas in the   
   Developed World most    
   of the damage (and the protests) is now in the past and most of us are   
   cocooned in cities and barely know where our food and water come from, or how   
   fragile our access to it really is.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)