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Originally posted by Bordeaux Education View Post
The only “food traveller” I can think that is even in the same direction was Keith Floyd and Bourdain is so far removed from (not least as the latter rarely cooked in the series)
Bourdain took it to greater heights. Bourdain didn't need to cook. But he ate a lot -- and that shouikd saitsfy the bition of "food travelling" -- and placed what he ate or cooked in a cutural and social and even political context.
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Originally posted by EIM View Post
I've watched that before. It's brilliant. I strongly believe the best way to fight climate disaster is by rewilding. And by smashing capitalism, obv.
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Originally posted by EIM View Post
"An enormous threat to biodiversity"? Try again lads. They do quite the opposite, turning up soil which gives less aggressive plants a chance to grow. Create boggy land which is a haven for insects, which in turn attracts birds and other insectivores. Which in turn attracts predators.
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Originally posted by G-Man View PostOh, Bourdain absolutely is the greatest food traveller of all time. There is no contender in sight.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post
They are doing some deep fake voice narration or something? Seems ghoulish.
https://twitter.com/tamigraph/status/1415746389703729153?s=20
Last edited by DCI Harry Batt; 17-07-2021, 11:23.
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Originally posted by EIM View PostOn topic, I love Bourdain but don't think I can watch this film.
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Boars are great. And bears. Let's have boars and bears. And wolves.
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Yeah, we have a lot of boar here too, and while I don't see them that often the evidence of their digging is everywhere. And the biodiversity here is among the best in Europe
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Posthttps://invasivespeciesireland.com/s...rial/wild-boar
heavy anti wild boar pish from the Irish Culchie Coddling authorities North and South, let the swine loose upon the land I say.
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https://invasivespeciesireland.com/s...rial/wild-boar
heavy anti wild boar pish from the Irish Culchie Coddling authorities North and South, let the swine loose upon the land I say.
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Yeah, will be something else having a tree corridor of Scots pine birch and oak from say Glen Affric to the west coast. Not that I'll dirty my hands either.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostYep get tae fuck with the sheep, agreed, would love to see boar back too.* Had a much higher population density, more arable land and more tree cover in now denuded parts of the Highlands before sheep replaced the pre-Clearances cattle economy. A lot of the north western Highlands will have lost the forest no matter what though, it's been retreating since at least the 1200s** from what was already very boggy and sparse as more and more and more rain fell there.
Still plenty of the Grampians that should have way more tree cover though, once the colonelocracy and forelock tugging fermers are dealt with.
*though boar, or at least feral escaped boar/pig cross-breeds, are back. And in England as well as Scotland.
**talk of the "Caledonian pine forest" covering half the Highlands into recorded history is romantic unmitigated bollocks. Even by the Roman era blanket bog, shite weather and fermers were all eating away at the tree cover. Prob have to go back to the Mesolithic/Neolithic to find anything like a massive forest blanketing the Highlands.
https://treesforlife.org.uk/
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Yep get tae fuck with the sheep, agreed, would love to see boar back too.* Had a much higher population density, more arable land and more tree cover in now denuded parts of the Highlands before sheep replaced the pre-Clearances cattle economy. A lot of the north western Highlands will have lost the forest no matter what though, it's been retreating since at least the 1200s** from what was already very boggy and sparse as more and more and more rain fell there.
Still plenty of the Grampians that should have way more tree cover though, once the colonelocracy and forelock tugging fermers are dealt with.
*though boar, or at least feral escaped boar/pig cross-breeds, are back. And in England as well as Scotland.
**talk of the "Caledonian pine forest" covering half the Highlands into recorded history is romantic unmitigated bollocks. Even by the Roman era blanket bog, shite weather and fermers were all eating away at the tree cover. Prob have to go back to the Mesolithic/Neolithic to find anything like a massive forest blanketing the Highlands.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 16-07-2021, 23:10.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostI'd like wolves back in Scotland too, but looking at how fucking gamekeepers and fermers have poisoned and shot sea eagles and beavers, I'd say aim lower at first and start with lynxes. Would be a good idea to get tree cover closer to 25 than 19% as well.
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So the problem is gamekeepers? Sounds like you do need to reintroduce bears. Big, angry grizzlies. And lions. And hippos.
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I'd like wolves back in Scotland too, but looking at how fucking gamekeepers and fermers have poisoned and shot sea eagles and beavers, I'd say aim lower at first and start with lynxes. Would be a good idea to get tree cover closer to 25 than 19% as well.
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The amount of money claimed as compo for wolves killing sheep in Italy far exceeds the possible given the number of wolves there actually are. Wolves aren't arsed and farmers are greedy and fat on handouts. Get the wolves back out there.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostThere have been cases of wolves attacking people in Europe though, done nothing to help their reintroduction in Norway. And Norway has a fuck load more empty space, forest and less basterd fermers than Scotland.
Lynx at least are proper wallflower shy, just compensate the fermers when their bloody flocks get thinned out.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostI agree they need to be managed but deer stalking doesn't kill the right animals, chinless bastards and rich tourists want to kill magnificent stags, not the surplus females, young, sick or old animals. We artificially maintain way too many deer cos of the money deer stalking brings in. Deer shot for venison rather than sport does a bit better at keeping numbers down, but these estates primarily exist for "sport".
Basically deer sheep and grouse moors are The Enemy.
Deer hunting is a big deal in Pennsylvania that the government is fully invested in. They have everyone brainwashed into believing its necessary for conservation. I accept that, given all the other terrible things we've done to the forests and the wildlife, that there are going to be more deer than the habitat can support, so if we don't shoot some of them, then many more will starve.
But I have no faith whatsoever that the game commission is remotely interested in the welfare of the deer. They just want to sell hunting licenses and bring in out-of-state hunters.
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