Things are getting even nuttier in the U.K. as the government plans to reduce their grey squirrel population by dispersing contraceptive pills that taste like hazelnuts into the wild.
The Daily Mail reports that there are roughly 3 million grey squirrels in the United Kingdom, and they are reportedly damaging young trees by stripping away its bark. They have also managed to severely reduce the red squirrel population pushing them on the verge of extinction in the U.K., due to the greys overpowering them and spreading disease that proves to be fatal amongst the reds.
Metro UK also notes that these squirrels ‘particularly pose a threat to government efforts to tackle climate change’ because they are stripping the trees of its bark, according to environment minister Lord Goldsmith.
The goal is to reduce the grey population by inhibiting their fertility with the contraceptives by not outright killing them.
Daily Mail added, ‘Lead scientist Dr. Giovanna Massei told the BBC that her team have developed a vaccine that temporarily restricts the production of sex hormones in squirrels. This renders both male and female greys infertile, and further tests are being carried out to increase its longevity and safety in the wild.’
Feeding/trapping boxes, designed to only be opened by greys and not others, will be dispersed in more densely populated areas where the greys reside.
Computing modeling demonstrated that if these contraceptives are administered amongst the grey population it could bring them to the brink of extinction in some places.
If proven successful, Massei explained that an identical scheme could also be employed to reduce the invasive rat, mice, deer, and wild boar populations.
This is a vital milestone on the road to enabling forestry to play fully its part in the climate battle, while preserving our native broadleaf trees and allowing our native red squirrels to return.
Lord Kinnoull, chairman of the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) and Red Squirrel Survival Trust
Environment minister Lord Benyon says the grey squirrels are “pests,” and “important research on oral contraception shows promising signs that could help to eradicate the grey squirrel in the UK in a non-lethal way, as well as helping to recover our beloved red squirrel.”
Fertility control can be an effective method complementing other approaches to wildlife management.
This U.K. Squirrel Accord & Defra funded study aims to produce an immuno-contraceptive that can be orally administered to grey squirrels through a species-specific delivery mechanism.
This innovative research has great potential to provide an effective, easily-applied and non-lethal method for managing grey squirrel populations.
It will help red squirrels – native to the UK – expand back into their natural habitats, as well as protecting UK woodland and increasing biodiversity.
Gideon Henderson, the chief scientific adviser at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said
Animal rights groups reportedly support the initiative:
We mustn’t forget that grey squirrels and other species deemed “invasive” are where they are through no fault of their own and entirely due to human carelessness, and they deserve to be left in peace.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said in a statement
The project is still being tested on a much smaller scale, and if proven efficient, it will launch two years from now.
Earlier this year The WinePress reported that GMO mosquitoes were released in California and Florida to reduce the population a certain kind of mosquito that could spread viruses.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Don’t you just love the hypocrisy? The eco-warriors see no issue in murdering babies, while elevating the life of a house cat to the status of a god, but when it suites their own needs they just cull off species they don’t want: all in the name of CLIMATE CHANGE, by culling the ecosystem. Brilliant.
But hey, are we really surprised by this, seeing how this is a population that lined up to get fertility destroying Covid death shots not long ago?
Of course, Brits are not allowed to hunt the squirrels for food and skins, and get paid for ever tail they collect, but rather have these conservationists wipeout an entire population with fertility blockers. What could go wrong?
And of course, even though this is still a ways off after the beta testing is over, this, in the age of shamdemics, is certainly a recipe for disaster really quickly. As I have warned many times over, mass cullings of livestock, wildlife, and pets are rapidly coming in the future, which I suspect will be under the underpinnings for the next plandemic to get the masses to not eat meats.
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.1 Timothy 4:1-3
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Squirrel in the picture’s like : “Whaat!”
This reminded me of your past articles:
https://winepressnews.com/2021/07/19/propaganda-study-says-wild-pigs-emit-more-carbon-than-one-million-cars-calls-for-their-control/
https://winepressnews.com/2021/11/03/media-says-covid-outbreak-among-iowa-deer-could-allow-for-the-virus-to-thrive-calls-for-their-vaccination/
It seems they are working toward eliminating and demonizing any optional and FREE food sources for people (meat sources) for when grocery store shelves go bare and famine hits. They could then peddle all their lab-grown, artificial, man-flesh-tainted abominations to the extremely starving, therefore willing masses, who would then readily accept these disgusting products just to ease the pangs. Just a theory though.
They’re destroying the earth and they’re gonna pay for it!
“They deserve to be left alone” except for us to mess with their procreation & genetics…. They DO deserve to be left alone, except for proper care & stewardship according to God’s order. Like leaving them there for soon starving people to naturally take the population down as has happened in other places of famine. Won’t be squirrels starving from lack of nuts then either, because people will be gathering & going to the work of shelling and cleaning them for their own consumption. Not much meat on a squirrel, & several at a time to make a meal or stew would take the population down in short order. The depression was why the deer & squirrel populations were so much lower in the ’50’s and building back from the Depression & war years. Now they’re ‘managed’ and everywhere, including places they shouldn’t be like doing lots of ag damage, & around peoples’ homes devastating gardens, shrubbery etc. Some families with farmer friends or with ag extension agents, educators & so forth feed their families on deer shot on farmers’ permits, and obtaining feeder pigs for peanuts that didn’t sell at auction and dressing them out.