From: Michelle Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Mon Jul 27 1998 - 20:20:33 MDT
Michael Lorrey wrote:
> A more effective thing to do to reduce the 'uck' factor is to engineer the cow to
> be more ugly, thus reducing the 'cute' factor from which the 'yuck' factor is
> derived. Most animal rightists, even the most casual ones, are usually motivated
> to avoid eating animals because of what we hunters call the 'Bambi Syndrome'...
michael, this is one of the more insightful things i have seen in some time.as i
watched a program about kimodo dragons, another in the room
commented that if he had his way, every last one of those wretched
creatures would be hunted down and destroyed. when was the last time
you heard someone say that about deer?
too bad kimodo dragons are not edible. {8^D spike
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