When the bag doesn’t matter
Jeremy Clarkson is launching a new show in which viewers will see the challenges he faces while running his own farm. It promises eight episodes which, according to an interview with the BBC, will show that farming is ‘extraordinarily hard work’. In the interview, Mr Clarkson talks frankly about his uneasy relationship with slaughtering livestock. “You can’t say, ‘I enjoy killing animals’ — you’d have to be deranged or a sociopath — so you don’t enjoy it. But it is the business.”
That phrase, “you can’t say, ‘I enjoy killing animals’ but it is the business” gave me pause for thought.
“The rabbit was able to generate remarkable speed”
It’s the sort of sentiment used by television presenters being paid seven-figure salaries. It’s also the sort of sentiment used by organisations opposed to both the general licences and shooting in general. I would
