In article , martin
writes
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:19:47 +0100, Kay Easton
wrote:

In article ,
writes
Surely it is time that the number of horses in this country was
limited - before this island sinks under the weight of this unwanted
horseshit.

Perhaps the consumption of horse meat should be encouraged.

I hope you weren't serious. We have much bigger waste problems than
that. At least horse shit is biodegradable.
Start by cutting down on unnecessary packaging, and by getting away from
the idea that things should be replaced because they are no longer
fashionable, rather than no longer serviceable.

He doesn't say he has a problem himself.

No, he doesn't. He suggests that as a society we should cut down on
horses to limit the amount of manure. I'm suggesting that if as a
country we want to decrease our waste problem, other things contribute
far more.

It's hard to cut down on
unnecessary packaging, unless you package things yourself.

But you can buy loose veg not packaged ones, refuse the offered plastic
carrier bags, lobby your MP. If enough people did, things might change.
Pretty unlikely. But if anyone is interested in a lost cause, that's a
more useful one than trying to restrict the number of horses in the
country.

I read in today's web IoS
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/thi...p?story=438742
that Scouts have abolished camp fires and cooking on wood fuelled
fires in favour of cooking using butane for environmental reasons.
Fuzzy thinking or what? Wood is a renewable energy resource.
Like many others, I only belonged to the Scouts for the pleasures of
camping and legalised pyromania. Singing Ging Gang Gooley around a
Camping Gaz burner isn't going to do much for Scouting.

I find it hard to believe sing ging gang gooley around *anything* dose
much for scouting amongst today's kids ;-)
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm