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Mrs R



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 11 7:38 pm    Post subject: There's some real nutters out there.... Reply with quote
    

Like this crazy lady

Loads and loads of glaringly obvious tripe like a 6 year old cow having had 7 calves...really? She started giving birth before she was even born? legs being sawn off in abattoirs while they're still alive, male dairy calves rejected for being too fatty...yeah, dairy breeds being famous for being so lardy and all


if they would just calm down they could probably come to a workable compromise, rather than expensive gimmickery.

12Bore



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 11 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Please send donations to.......

chez



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 11 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It's Liz Jones. 'Nutter' sums her up completely.

And self-indulgent, self-obsessed b*tch, too, obviously.

Tavascarow



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 11 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Liz Jones is indeed a complete & total air head.
I remember the time her dogs where worrying the local livestock & her reaction.
But with regards to 7 calves in 6 years have you never heard of twins?
We had a guernsey fresian cross that regularly dropped twins, every second or third lactation. So possible but rare.

Rob R



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York
PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 11 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The 'five or six' and 'six or seven' suggests that she didn't even know how old it was, never mind it's calving history!

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 11 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

She's cleary an idiot.

Does she really expect us to belive that a slaughterman would cut an animal's legs off while it was still alive under the eyes of a journo?

oaklandspigs



Joined: 14 Jan 2009
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Location: East Sussex
PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 11 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Would love to see the business model for "with my business partner Isobel Davies, who has a 500-strong flock of rescued rare-breed sheep and produces non-slaughter wool, "

So 500 fleeces at lets say £2, less say 90p shearing costs, makes £550 a year gross income off of presumably around 100 acres, or an income of £5.50 an acre, before any bought in feed, worming, vacination, and capital costs.

Not so much of a business partner, more of a charity for someone with loads of money.

Incidentally Isobel Davies is the sort of back to nature, basic living who can say "A few years ago I bought an Alberta Ferretti jacket that I never even wore. I spent about £1,700. It didn't suit me. Every few months after work I used to drive up to Harvey Nichols and have a really expensive binge. I think with shopping you are either not in the mood and nothing suits you, or everything suits you and you want everything, so you have a feast."

So obviously counting the pennies there then !

Mrs R



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 11 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Tavascarow wrote:

But with regards to 7 calves in 6 years have you never heard of twins?
We had a guernsey fresian cross that regularly dropped twins, every second or third lactation. So possible but rare.


ye, but is an occurence as rare as that something to be so disgusted about? It's hardly the norm.

Bodger



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 11 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

What you've missed out on, is the fact that the vast majority of the public who read that crap, will believe it as gospel.

T.G



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 11 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sawing off legs whilst alive.... the writer is too fond of the movie kingpin

Mrs R



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 11 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bodger wrote:
What you've missed out on, is the fact that the vast majority of the public who read that crap, will believe it as gospel.


Not at all, I'm well aware of that. but when you're up against absolute nuttery, people who have a big audience and apparently absolutely no need to know anything about anything before they go off on one, what are you meant to do?

sean
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 11 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm not at all sure that anyone takes her seriously, even Daily Mail readers.

Paul Sill



Joined: 16 Jan 2009
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 11 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Did she take the twitching after death as the animal still being alive? If so any good reporter would be asking the person showing her round the questions.

Rob R



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Location: York
PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 11 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Paul Sill wrote:
Did she take the twitching after death as the animal still being alive? If so any good reporter would be asking the person showing her round the questions.


I suspect she did, but chose not to believe the answer.

BadgerFace



Joined: 25 Mar 2009
Posts: 915
Location: Sussex
PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 11 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I followed a link on the article page to another of her little gems ! "Hypnosis got me back in the saddle!" Where it appears the bonkers woman doesn't even know the sex of her own horse !

'Benji ' starts the article as a 'he' and later is referred to a a 'she' - I wonder if "Benji" is now receiving counselling ?

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