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Article #149Re: Seal hunt begins; IFAW bears witness
From: pearl
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:23
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:23
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"Tim" <nocomment@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:dYzgc.869$Gp4.108741@news20.bellglobal.com... > So, would you be happy if they killed them the same way they kill cows? No, indeed not. Most 'livestock' suffers considerably up to, and also at slaughter. As you can see, this has been addressed elsewhere.. Comment From Jim Harrington 4-15-4 http://rense.com/general51/slscmm.htm To those who have had their eyes and hearts opened by the seal hunt, as a volunteer for my local Humane Society, I just want to assure them that many, many people have worked on this issue over many years. There is a growing push in the media towards fur fashion again, and an expert on the fur issue reassures me that it is the gasping of a dying industry. However, for those who are truly sickened by this treatment of animals, there are many, many unseen atrocities being committed that are blacked out by the media. Most notably in the meat industry. Factory farming is one of the most horrifying practices that humanity has come up with in recent decades. This last week we in British Columbia have witnessed the slaughter of 19 million farm birds because a few have exhibited signs of the flu. Several humans came down with sore eyes and runny noses, and so 19 million birds were slaughtered. The birds must be replaced quickly, to meet consumer needs. Big opposition is occuring as no one wants the corpses disposed in 'their back yard'. As with the heaping charred bodies of cattle in Britain during the mad cow crisis (brought on by feeding cattle parts to cattle) I wondered, WHERE IS THE OPPOSITION to the 'cull'. The careless mass 'disposal' of another species made sick by our own farming practices. In Asia recently, these ill and healthy birds alike were violently grabbed and crammed mercilessly into bags to be buried alive en masse. Shown repeatedly on mainstream news. There are many websites available to educate ourselves on the inhuman treatment of animals. Factory farming is no less horrible than the seal hunt. If we are truly affected by the mindset of a person clubbing a seal to death with a pick, let us make each other aware that this issue is but a speck on the radar. That our barbeques and frying pans contain the results of no less brutal acts. ..' http://rense.com/general51/slscmm.htm I'll be happy when animals aren't killed at all, at least not avoidably, without really very good reason,- i.e. survival. Native Wisdom; 'The Circle of Life includes all plants, animals, fish, birds, insects, humans. The only aspect of the circle that is not essential to life is the human aspect "I mentioned the sacred circle of life. If you can imagine a circle, in that circle are the people, plants, animals, birds, fish, and insects. The Native belief is that if you damage anything within that sacred circle of life, eventually you damage yourself. If you take any one of those items, animals, out of the sacred circle of life--everything would die. If you take out the insects, eventually everything will die. If you take out the plants, eventually everything will die. If you take out the fish, eventually everything will die. What would happen if you take the humans out of the sacred circle of life? What would happen then? Nothing. We are the least important in that sacred circle of life. The ancient beliefs are that we were the last to come along. The animals, plants, fish, birds and insects didn't depend on us. Our lives depend on a harmonious relationship with everything within the sacred circle of life. That's the basis of Native spirituality. It's not a worship of animals. It is a relationship, a strong feeling with the natural world." Butch Phillips, Penobscot Indian Nation.' http://www.nativescience.org/assets/Documents/PDF%20Documents/NatSubTechPlanWRKSHP.pdf
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