Deputy agriculture minister’s peculiar take on increasing overlap between humans and animals

Deputy Minister of Agriculture Namal Karanarathna states that animals have only three basic requirements: food, water and sexual needs.

He points out that squirrels do not have the freedom to make love in the village today.

Karunarathna says that if there was a way for wild animals to fulfill their food, water and sexual needs in the forests, they would not venture into houses.

He made these remarks while addressing a public meeting held in the Kurunegala area.

This comes in the backdrop of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake advising his MPs to ‘think before they speak’ at a recent meeting of the ruling faction’s parliamentary group.