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By John Nash On 8 July 2022 The DFFE published its “Consultation on the Draft White Paper on Conservation and Sustainable use”. It makes an interesting read, especially if you have difficulty sleeping at night and has a number of stated goals, including: On page 5, Goal 2 is “effective...
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On 8 July 2022, The DFFE published its “Consultation on the Draft White Paper on Conservation and Sustainable use”. It makes an interesting read, especially if you have difficulty sleeping at night, and has a number of stated goals, including:
On page 5, Goal 2 is “effective biodiversity conservation and sustainable use”. On page 6, Goal 3 is: “biodiversity conservation promotion”, and Goal 4 is “responsible sustainable use”. So, it aims for the promotion of responsible and sustainable use of SA’s biodiversity.
But… Page 12, it defines sustainable use: “ In the case of animals, (sustainable use) is humane and does not compromise their well-being”. It goes on to define well-being as …”the holistic circumstances and conditions of an animal which are conducive of its physical, physiological and mental health and quality of life, including its ability to cope with its environment”.
Now call me old-fashioned, but I thought sustainable use meant “using something at a certain rate so that availability continues and it is not depleted or destroyed” – it has nothing to do with fluffy “humaneness” or “holistic circumstances”. Suddenly, there is a smell of rat pee on this white paper – the rodents of animal rights (AR) have been scurrying around on it, nibbling away at the need for scientific fact.
You see, when AR souls say “sustainable”, they don’t mean “at a continuing level” in the real, physical world. AR souls use sustainable in the argumentative, philosophical sense, as in “killing granny with a chainsaw is not morally sustainable”. To AR souls, it doesn’t matter if all the wild animals are wiped out, providing you do not transgress their fundamentalist theoretical Disney-ethics that have absolutely no connection whatsoever with reality of the needs of animals or environmental management. If it all goes pear-shaped, they will blame global warming/capitalism/trophy hunters/apartheid anyway. AR souls live in la-la land, a fictional land inside their heads – they are all legends in their own minds, a mental condition that makes them impervious to sense or reason, let alone reality. It is a condition they share with psychopaths, and, like psychopaths, they will eventually wipe out South Africa’s wildlife, blissfully unaware of their illness.
