Every news bulletin I hear seems to have an item on either that Wall \u2013 the one between the USA and Mexico, or the one that no one wants to see built across Ireland. None have so far mentioned the one bring built on the Danish German border to keep feral African immigrants out of Denmark.<\/p>\n
That might be because it\u2019s there to prevent African swine fever (in the wild boar population) getting to all those intensively reared pigs the Danish economy relies so heavily on.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear whether the boar are causing similarly expensive problems in Germany. But Stone Martens are. These cute weasel-like critters caused some \u20ac70m of damage to cars in 2017 by chewing electrical insulation. The clever money says that it\u2019s the fish oil in the cabling that they like.<\/p>\n
What a world when not even rubber is reliably vegan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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