The horses’ reading ability is still proving a slight hitch. A biological equilibrium is aimed at with the selective introduction of wolves and bears, but if the sheep population or the Freiberger horses become too numerous there is a plan to release mountain lions. Any resultant problem with excessively bloodthirsty lions could be countered by a guard horse breeding programme: the Freiberger horse is already relatively aggressive anyway, and could possibly be crossed with the “Mujaheddin”, thus decisively increasing the horse’s protective reflex. The Avenches Training Centre would then have to be converted into a training camp.The shrewdness of this radical change in strategy is obvious for Swiss agriculture. It generates continuous pressure for innovation which must be met by research, producing great advances.Switzerland also wants to use this giant step to improve other sectors of the economy. Thus the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is developing a new car engine which can be powered by sheep dung. Switzerland could then finally develop its own car industry and also set an example to the rest of the world in the battle against global warming.The sheep’s wool will be used to knit forgery-proof banknotes. In the event of future inflation (and this will happen if you consider the huge amounts of money which have been pumped into the economy in recent months) the Swiss franc can then always be processed into woollen blankets, while other currencies will probably only be good for use as fuel. This way the Swiss banks could attract capital from abroad quite legally.
The lesson Switzerland has learned from the financial crisis is that large animals create a lot of dung. The future belongs to small, bonus-free sheep.
The cheese researchers are already experimenting with Emmentaler cheese made from sheep’s milk. The greatest challenge now is to rustle up enough sheep. The Vice Director of ALP will therefore fly to New Zealand for an extended period in order to buy up sheep on behalf of the Swiss government. Breeding trials with “Lovely look” sheep are already taking place at Agroscope in Posieux.