Australian farmers have recently run into a big problem, and the protagonist of the trouble is actually a rat.
According to media reports, a vice president of the Farmers' Association of New South Wales in Australia named Xavier Martin recently recounted an incident that made people feel chills in their backs. According to his description, there have been scenes of rats cannibalizing on his farm, and the scene is very frightening.
And this happens because Australia has had a severe drought this year, followed by a rat plague, which has caused so much damage to farms due to the proliferation of rats, and now they are also beginning to have food shortages and have to cannibalize in order to survive.
This was a rather serious issue that needed to be taken seriously by all parties, but an animal rights protection group jumped out and made a rather absurd statement, saying that rats were very sad to eat each other, and hoped that humans would not kill these rats for their right to live.
They stressed that it was their duty not to let the animals die painfully, both by the peasants and by cannibalism. In other words, they not only want these rat-infested farmers not to poison them, but they even want to provide them with enough food to solve the problem of them nibbling on each other.
Obviously, this is the idea of extreme animal protection. When the rat infestation has become so severe, it is absurd to stress that these rats should be given the right to live.
Even Australian Deputy Prime Minister McCormack couldn't look away and directly said that "the best rats are dead rats", which is equivalent to directly punching these extreme animal protectionists in the face.
Although the government also supports Australian farmers to deal with these rats, when farmers proposed that the government provide financial support to help everyone fight rat infestation, the Australian government is a two-handed stall, saying "no money", love can not help, the reason they gave is that in order to fight the drought has spent more than $4 billion in huge money, and now to take out another $600 million, 700 million U.S. dollars to treat rat infestation, the government is really no money.
If the Australian government doesn't have the money to support it, and wants to rely solely on the spontaneous action of farmers to fight the rapid growth of rats, it is difficult to say that it will succeed in a short period of time.