Another Voice
Kill a goat if you want to save the planet
Not every problem the world faces is intractable. Big questions may suggest simple answers. Here is one. It is time to exterminate the common goat. It is time to wipe Capra aegagrus from the face of the Earth. It is time to make goats extinct.
The common goat is more destructive of the ecological balance of our planet than any other single cause — and I do include global warming. I write this in an aeroplane high above Sudan on a flight returning from a fortnight in Ethiopia. My journeys this January in the Horn of Africa have reminded me of the incalculable damage the free-range goat is doing to natural environments right across the Third World, where Capra aegagrus, the domestic goat, has been appointed hunter-gatherer to the human race: mindless, ubiquitous and pitiless in its voracity.
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