The headline is, “Wolf cull lacks teeth, say shepherds.” But animal advocates argue that there should be no cull at all. The wolf’s presence divides Europe. Wolves were hunted to extinction in France in the 20th century. There were given protected status in Italy and …
A research project, conducted in France, has concluded that kids who live close to dense vineyards have a higher risk of contracting leukaemia because of the chemicals in the agricultural herbicides sprayed onto the vines. French campaigners who want a 150 metre no-spray buffer zone …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Did you realise that the well-known dish that the French love, frogs’ legs in garlic, are the product of mass animal cruelty? That’s what animal activists have said at the world’s biggest celebration of frogs legs in Vittel, eastern France. It is …
The Times reports of angry protests at the barbarity of bullfighting which still takes place in towns across south-western France because it is legal to do so on the basis that it is a local tradition despite the fact that a court ruling stated that …
NEWS AND COMMENT-FRANCE: In the Sologne area of central France, wealthy French landowners are being criticised for canned hunts. That is the only way you can describe them. They are fencing in their forests. There are an estimated 2,500 miles of fences around privately owned …
The Times reports on another hunting accident in France in which a person has been shot dead. A motorist was critically injured when a large calibre rifle bullet passed through his neck as he was driving on the dual carriageway road from Rennes to Nantes. …
FRANCE-NEWS AND COMMENT: In a bid to attract the countryside vote for his forthcoming presidential election campaign, President Macron has overturned a ban on the hunting of songbirds such as thrushes, blackbirds and lapwings using traditional methods such as nets, cages and nooses. President Macron …
There is cut-throat competition among beekeepers in France because France’s 60,000 professional and amateur beekeepers are unable to keep up with demand for their product as there is a 35% annual death rate of bees due to pesticides, global warming and Asian hornets. The cut-throat …
NEWS AND COMMENT: I don’t think anybody has said it but when I read the story about a French hunter who shot a British guy living in France because the hunter thought that he was shooting a boar, I wonder whether he did it deliberately …
