This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Saturday 19 February 2022
Quick to Pledge and Quicker to Drop?
The UK government pledged to become a paragon of animal welfare, by banning the import of furs and pate de foie gras (a fatty liver concoction made by force-fed geese). It seems likely, now, that both pledges will be dropped after objections from several cabinet ministers (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/19/pledge-to-ban-fur-and-foie-gras-imports-could-be-dropped-after-cabinet-opposition). It seems, at the moment, that 'pledges' are simply devices (worrying for net zero cabon emissions?). The UK 'government' apparently can't afford to annoy anyone in its own party?
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