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[The Unconventional Soldier Podcast @TheUCS473]

@robert_lyman Something that is too often forgotten. We also need to debunk the binary "hero" or "broken veteran" image of service men and women. Most people serve, learn new skills and return to civvi street perfectly able to function and add value to society.

[Frank Bruno MBE 🇬🇧 @frankbrunoboxer]

Evening sorry if this image upsets you. Last week we celebrated the amazing animals that David Attenborough has shown us through TV for many years. I am sure you will agree with me Trophy hunting must be banned. I have today written to Keir Starmer asking for the trophy hunting ban he promised in 2024 to be implemented without further delay. To join me in this request
Please sign & share the petition at https://t.co/tSIjwT94p0 to show your support.
Thank you
#BanTrophyHunting

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Fantastic news!

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Donkeys are the most beautiful, companionable and gentle souls on earth. But every year 6 million are stolen, slaughtered and skinned for fake Chinese medicine. Some people are stupid cunts.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Two females, no males. The last two Northern white rhinos left on Earth.

Najin and her daughter Fatu are the last two northern white rhinos remaining on Earth.

There were 500 in the 1970s. By the end of the 80s there were 15. All at the hands of poachers.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A donkey skin sells in Kenya for $130. Boiled into a Chinese beauty product called ejiao, it becomes part of an $8 billion industry. Almost 6 million donkeys are killed every year to feed it. The finished products are sold on Amazon.

Ejiao is a kind of gelatin made by simmering donkey skin for hours. It's mixed into face creams, anti-aging pills, candies, and tonics. Even China's own health regulator has admitted ejiao is just boiled donkey skin. No clinical trials show that it works. But a hit Chinese TV drama called Empress in the Palace put it back in fashion around 2012. The country's growing middle class started taking it for anemia, fatigue, miscarriage, even premature aging.

Donkeys can't reproduce that fast. A female donkey is pregnant for 12 full months and has just one foal at a time. She doesn't start breeding until age two or three. So when Chinese demand exploded, China's own donkey population collapsed from 11 million in 1992 to under 2 million by 2020.

The hunt then went global. Africa has roughly 33 million donkeys, two-thirds of the world's supply. Botswana's donkey population has halved since 2016. In Kenya, government-approved slaughterhouses killed about half the country's donkeys in three years. According to The Donkey Sanctuary, 41% of African donkey owners surveyed had at least one animal stolen.

Donkeys are walked for weeks across borders, denied food and water, until they collapse. They're hit on the head with sledgehammers. Their throats are slit. Some are still breathing when they're skinned. A 2017 PETA investigation in China found foals as young as 5 months old killed this way. Up to one in five donkeys dies before reaching the slaughterhouse.

In February 2024, all 55 African Union countries voted to ban the trade for 15 years across the continent. China is Africa's biggest trading partner. The continent banned this trade anyway. The Donkey Sanctuary still projects demand will hit 6.8 million skins a year by 2027. Within weeks of the ban, donkey theft spiked across Africa. The trade went underground. Chinese companies are now in talks to set up donkey farms in Pakistan instead.

A donkey in rural Africa is often a family's only way to fetch water, carry goods to market, and send kids to school. When it gets stolen overnight, the women and children become the donkey. They walk further with heavier loads. The girls drop out of school first.

The donkey in this photo is leaning against a wall because it's exhausted. The industry on its back is worth $8 billion.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

“Apparently there are still people who get a kick out of killing things and taking the lives of others, which is something I find incomprehensible” ~ Sir David Attenborough.

#DavidAttenborough 💯.

[LindaDT @ldthomson56]

@BasilTheGreat @johnsmith130824 Poor woman. Her life is destroyed. I despise what this government have done to our country.

[The Kilted Sailor @Kilted_Sailor]

@johnkroencke @PMarlowe1939 Scottish civil society has a deep and enduring conflict with personal success and wealth generation…it’s massive reason our politics is looks like the way it does.

Devolution has turbocharged a phenomenon that was already prevalent since postwar.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

.@RickyGervais gives his views on bullfighting.

"When a matador gets gored to death, the headline is always "tragedy at bullfight." EVERY bullfight is a ... tragedy. It's animal torture."

Absolutely true Ricky!

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

"Wriggle room if the killings did not in fact happen."

Those are the words of Keir Starmer's Attorney General, sent whilst dragging British troops through the courts.

The troops were innocent. Keir Starmer's judgement is not.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

Look at this horrific little illegal migrant scumbag laughing after being found guilty of repeatedly raping a drunk girl on a beach. This is what we’re importing. I don’t know how the ‘Refugees Welcome’ brigade sleep at night.

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

Today; three illegal not-so-small boat migrants were found GUILTY of the gang rape of an incapacitated woman.

They pinned the woman down, forced open her mouth & spat in it, whilst calling her a “dirty bitch”.

They filmed her ordeal, laughed about it & celebrated with a BBQ afterwards, in the hotel we taxpayers pay for.

One of the men said “rape is sex”.

The woman said the men have “ruined her whole life”.💔

Meanwhile, also today, the Green Party say they think it is “cruel” to basically try and stop men such as this from this entering our country & in fact, they want to make it easier for them to do so with new routes for them.

I mean, what does one even say to this?!🤯

Oh & BTW - these are not people fleeing “war & persecution” - they are economic migrants, fleeing France after specifically selecting U.K. as their destination.

What politicians and do-gooders have done & are doing to this country, is simply unforgivable.

[Si @Si_T436]

@stuart_loch Not far off a point a minute presently. Grim afternoon so far.

[Si @Si_T436]

@thepaulwilliams Incredible match wasn’t it. Both sides of the ball, and National divide.

[Si @Si_T436]

@thepaulwilliams Did a radio interview with BFBS earlier this week.

Predicted Ireland to W, but only just. Stand by it. Tough, test for them.

By way of completeness; also tipped England and France to W, respectively.

Who doesn’t love this time of year 💪.

[Dawn Neesom @DawnNeesom]

Wait till she hears about Rotherham, Rochdale & Telford 🙄#rapegangs #women

[Si @Si_T436]

@markymark_II Good decision that mate. Some days just aren’t your day.

It’ll be there next time.

[Si @Si_T436]

@BlancoGoGo Drives me insane stuff like that. Demonstrable lack of moral courage, by whoever it is/ was supposed to pull them up for it.

So few things have consequences any more.

[Si @Si_T436]

Quite the morning for it.