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Old 15-07-2004, 01:09 PM
 
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Default Gardeners critical over slug protection laws HOORAH

On 14 Jul 2004 10:17:33 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:


In article ,
writes:
| On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:23:54 +0100, martin sage
| wrote:
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|
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...11/nslug11.xml
| A new animal welfare law that will offer slugs and snails the same
| protection as cats and dogs was condemned by gardeners yesterday.
|
| This is only the start. It will also be illegal to pull up weeds that
| are food plants for caterpillars or greenfly. The only solution for
| councils who run municipal gardens will be to concrete them over.
|
| This rubbish has made the Dutch national press, oh how they larfed.

Quite.

Once upon a time, the Daily Torygraph was the mouthpiece of the
establishment Right, but was at least a vaguely respectable
newspaper. It seems to have been renamed the Daily Trollograph
and become the mouthpiece of the less intelligent wing of the
Little Englanders.

I am not at all surprised that Pete the Troll reads it


I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he edits it, now that he has
been sacked by the Sun. :-)

- as all
you humans will know, that crude forgery didn't emanate from me.


and the not one about infrared too? :-)
and was that the real Franz, who tried to put you right or another
forger?
ducks and runs
--
Martin