A flurry of stories appeared last week about a North Welsh council, Conwy, supposedly shelving plans to fine people who feed seagulls in Llandudno because religious groups might be upset.
One newspaper even referred to a Jewish custom of feeding birds on Shabbat Shirah.
There's a tiny Jewish population still left in Llandudno and it does attract holidaying Chasidim from Manchester.
But any idea that Jews may object to action against the winged pests is positively "silly", Manchester- based Charedi commentator Yaakov Wise told me.
"While observant Jews are prohibited from acts of cruelty to animals, such as fox-hunting, there is no obligation to feed any wild animal or bird," he said. "On the contrary, the protection of humans and their health always takes precedence."
The story was sparked by a tweet from the council's tourism head, Jim Jones, who said that the council had been told it was a "right" in some religions to feed birds.
But Conwy's chief executive Iwan Davies made clear that the council is currently drafting a byelaw to prohibit gull-feeding and it has received no formal religious protests.
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