Brush prices to plummet?

[Mark1966]

I noticed this story in the press today.

With around 5,000 badgers are expected to be killed across the two areas in Britain over a four-year period as part of the cull we should expect a huge decline in brush prices should we not?

I can see Simpson introducing a new line of Limited Edition Gloucestershire Super Badger brushes.

With Somerset being the other county involved perhaps they can offer to re-knot Somerset era brushes in Somerset badger - wouldn't that be cool!

In reality though I presume that the carcasses and fur will just go to waste

 

[Mick]

Yes they will all just be destroyed. Real shame

 

[EscapeVelocity]

Yes they will all just be destroyed. Real shame

They do the same thing with Elephants in Southern Africa. It's stupid, just plain dumb.

Elephant are destroying Kruger Park, after the internationalist Left got their way and banned yearly culling. Now at crisis point, they are just going to mass slaughter them, with no use of the meat, ivory, or hair. When I was there in 2008, I got to tour the now all but abandoned Elephant processing plant, where they used to butcher them every year. This provided jobs and income to fund the preserve, whilst managing the well being of the preserve.

Stop the insanity!

 

[mblakele]

Probably no good for brushes, sorry.

Back in the 80s we had a guy turn up at the mill in his car and asked if we would buy a badger off him that he had just run over in his car and killed - he had loaded it into the boot(trunk) of his car and headed down to see us. We had to explain to him that we didn't use british badger hair as 1. it was protected and 2. it was too coarse to use for brushes.
We gave him a guided tour of the mill and then headed for the main door to walk him back to his car. As we all approached his car you could see the whole chassis rocking from side to side and coming from the boot was the sound of a pretty pi**ed off badger which had obviously come round from being knocked out from being hit by a car! Not much advice we could give the guy apart from trying to devise some method fo opening the boot from the safety of the roof of his car! To this day we still don't know what the outcome was...!

For those interested in the economics of conservation, I found http://www.economist.com/node/10807694 illuminating.

 

[Mark1966]

Probably no good for brushes, sorry.

That is a classic!