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Chopping down 150 year old Holmes Oak trees in North Wales because they are not native (whatever that means) may seem the harmless actions of some purists of mind in Natural Resources Wales (the environmental \u201cregulator\u201d).<\/p>\n
But it is a step on a very dangerous road.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0It led, a few days ago, to the killing (in a cynical and theatrical way) of Marius the baby giraffe, because Copenhagen Zoo say the EU don\u2019t allow \u201cin breeding\u201d.<\/p>\n \u00a0And a decade ago it led to the slaughter of Ruddy Ducks being endorsed by \u2013 of all people \u2013 the RSPB, as they breed with White Headed Ducks and spoil their genetic purity.<\/p>\n \u00a0Sweden was caught having practiced eugenics on humans for decades – between 1935 and 1976 over 60,000 young Swedish women were forcibly sterilised, to improve the human gene pool.<\/p>\n We all know what happened in the 1930s, with the Nazis seeking to protect and improve the \u201cblood purity\u201d of the human species.<\/p>\n Weeding out some old trees may seem innocent enough, but who is to say who will end up being \u201cweeded out\u201d when this way of thinking is pursued to its logical end?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chopping down 150 year old Holmes Oak trees in North Wales because they are not native (whatever that means) may seem the harmless actions of some purists of mind in Natural Resources Wales (the environmental \u201cregulator\u201d). But it is a step on a very dangerous road. \u00a0It led, a few days ago, to the killing… Continue reading PROTECTING “BLOOD PURITY” LEADS TO DISASTER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mikes-comments","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}