Comments on: Boycott Wine Until Vineyard No Longer Animal Deathtrap?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:45:42 +0000

I am not recommending buying Barkan wine, BUT…SPNI and Let Animals Live have reached a compromise with Barkan. They are taking down the fences that have been erected, but haven’t yet agreed not to erect fences in other places. Instead, they will cover the vines with plastic sheeting or some such. Wildlife biologists found dead and dying gazelles stuck in the wire fence again and again over the last few months and we even posted a video clip of this to SPNI’s youtube channel, but it’s pretty gory. Don’t look. And anyway, it’s going in a positive direction. Maybe if you write Barkan and tell them you want to buy their wines, but you want to know that they’ve agreed to no more fences. It’s public land, for the most part, and not private land, so they really should not be doing this.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:02:27 +0000

Hoofed mammals don’t see color. Maybe something flashy, but not actual color. Besides, as noted in the Haaretz article, what they do, i.e. run, they do by instinct.

Trying go over or through a fence is not something they can do by instinct in most cases. Getting through some barriers are eventually learned by animals, as in the case of Nubian Ibex at the Dead Sea, who have apparently learned how to crawl under road side railings.
Fences are another matter, however.

By: susan

susan — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:27:26 +0000

Paint the fence with a fluorescent color that can be seen by the wildlife.

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:34:52 +0000

I think companies that profit from nature and nature’s beauty, should be more moral and tread a little lighter on this planet.

Here is the drivel they post on their home page:

“A Vineyard was to Solomon the King, and as the love in the Song of Songs, our love started in a vineyard. Our love is a devotion to wine, to premium wines from the finest grapes we can grow, that our vineyard can give.”

The Song of Songs also mentions the gazelles…

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:06:48 +0000

Can’t Barkan sue SPNI now under the boycott law? That would be an interesting one…

By: Maurice

Maurice — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:05:23 +0000

This doesn’t mean to boycott all wines – only ones from Barkon, unless they agree to take down the all fences around the vineyards. Reminds me of the classic novel and movie: The Yearling. Look this story up if you are not familiar with it.