Re: SOC/BIO: A Tidbit of Eco-Fundamentalist Rhetoric

From: Michael Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Mar 13 2001 - 06:14:01 MST


Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Neal Blaikie wrote:
>
> > It's like waking up and finding yourself inside a Phil Dick novel. Truly
> > strange. Kind of like serving steak dinners at a PETA fundraiser. (I could be
> > hallucinating, but I seem to recall reading something like that many years
> > ago, but maybe it was a Greenpeace fundraiser.)
>
> It makes more sense at a PETA fundraiser than a Greenpeace
> schmooze. By devouring farm animals we give them *some*
> life, which is kinder to animals than no life at all. But the
> Greenpeacers would have the range land lie fallow with no
> ruminants. spike

Not necessarily, they'd want it populated by buffalo, which I wouldn't
mind at all. Buffalo burgers are quite fine. Nice healthy high protein,
low fat/cholesterol meat.



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