Paul Dove

Big fan (still) of Enlightenment values. Basically Habermas + Peter Singer/Mary Midgley's respect for animals. Not keen on populist right or authoritarian left.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

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[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@talkingstocks81 @DamoLacramioara No, it's not commercially viable. There are cow-with-calf dairies where the calves get to stay with their mothers. But they're exceedingly rare - around 0.6% of dairies in the UK and USA - simply because it's 3-4 times the price of intensive dairy farm systems.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@GretaSc93741191 @ciwf @Tesco @asda @Morrisons @sainsburys So-called 'free range' is hardly any better unfortunately. 1000s of birds confined in grotesquely cramped sheds, unable to move freely or express their natural behaviour and never seeing the light of day. An utter disgrace. Only organic offers a modicum of basic welfare.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@ciwf @philip_ciwf Next challenge is that 'free range' conditions for hens is almost as bad as caged. Free range has to mean free range - not 1000s of birds crammed together in disgusting conditions in an outrageously cramped shed.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@ClarksonsFarm1 Is this still what happens to unwanted male dairy calves? There's no market for veal, so what happens?

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@EmmaforWycombe @DavidLammy Factory farming of animals is massively driving global warming and the climate emergency. A disaster for the animals and the planet. It needs to be phased out. Mandatory food labels will help achieve this as the Animal Sentience Committee recommended to Defra last July.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@ryanleeball @philip_ciwf @TheScotsman @ChrisGPackham Yes, it should be mandatory. But I think you also need graphic pictorial labels on the packaging as well. They were proven to be very effective on cigarette packets.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@philip_ciwf @TheScotsman @ChrisGPackham Exactly right. Two simple mandatory labels are all that's needed: 'Factory Farmed' with a picture of the indoor farming system or 'Free Range' again with a picture of the pasture-based farm.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@mikemasm Only 1% of the global population is vegan. So unfortunately it's 99% of people who fund the exploitation of animals every single day.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@MichaelEMann @Geetagurumurthy @BBCWorld You mention burning fossil fuels but not animal agriculture - the meat and dairy industries which account for 15-20% global greenhouse gas emissions. Kind of ironic considering all the people buying ice cream in the accompanying footage to your interview.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@ClarkeMicah Chilling to hear Sarah's account of the rapes in WW2 Italy by invading foreign troops while pointing out "obviously the Russians were famous for that too". And indeed, 80 years later, the behaviour of Russian troops towards Ukrainian women and girls shows little has changed.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@ClarkeMicah "This has been quite a week for warmongers".
Indeed, Peter, indeed.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@ClarkeMicah https://t.co/deA4cfEq0m

[Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev]

As Starmer resigns, his legacy will remain warmongering, energy blunders, open borders, grooming gangs, migrant crime, and failure to acknowledge any of these mistakes.

Patriots exposed Starmer's failures. Will the next globalist-groomed UK leader learn from them?

[The Animal Law Foundation @AnimallawFDN]

The Animal Law Foundation has issued a formal complaint to the BBC arguing misleading claims about pig sentience.

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[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

OTD in 2023 Prigozhin said we were lying about the reasons Russia invaded Ukraine.

In unrelated news, soon after this he died of altitude cancer.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@ClarkeMicah @MavkaSlavka So what word do we give to the presence of 10,000 Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine by the end of 2014 (according to RUSI) if not invasion? I'm not sure 'minor incursion' quite covers it.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@SamaHoole Deeply disingenuous. This isn't how commercial pigs are raised as you well know. 98% of pigs are confined in cramped sheds and never see pasture.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@DianaPauls33814 @NothingIsArt2 Out of interest, how many of your friends, colleagues and family have you converted to veganism. Or are they a lost cause?

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@SamaHoole No need for complacency: 97% of UK pigs are factory farmed confined indoors in grotesquely cramped, barren conditions. Farrowing crates are still legal, 85% of piglets are still tail docked/tooth clipped without anaesthetic and 90% cruelly gassed before having their throats slit.

[Paul Dove @pauldove247]

@EndTheEU @ClarkeMicah He hardly sat on his hands. An estimated 30k to 50k Russian military personnel fought in the Donbas between 2014 & 2022 - regular Russian troops ("vacationers" as Girkin called them) but also mercenaries like Wagner (as Prigozhin admitted) all directed & heavily armed by Moscow.