Charlotte: *THIS* is what I agreed with! Sorry - I'm getting
way behind in my email reading/responses......!
Jackie
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 18:08:55 -0400
> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Charlotte Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: just a little comment
> Candi --
>
> People speak about hunting so blatantly because they are "allowed" to...
> there is nothing illegal about it. However, many people fail to realize
> the moral stand others take regarding such an activity. If you have
> a problem with what "preacher" said, then you need to speak out, for
> several reasons:
>
> 1. The only valid reason (I see) for hunting is survival...
> "preacher" was obviously not hunting for this reason;
>
> 2. Given reason #1 above, killing more than you can eat is
> a terrible waste of animal life (even for a carnivore/omnivore);
>
> 4. Listening to a preacher spread the word about killing, as
> opposed to many other characteristics about the birds, is
> hardly Christian;
>
> 3. Knowing that a preacher would enjoy talking about killing
> is actually rather scary!!
>
> Just my opinion.
>
>
> --
> - Charlotte Sullivan
> Executive Director
> Protect Animal Life
> "PEACE AND FREEDOM FOR ALL WHO LIVE"
>
>
> candi churchill wrote:
> >
> > a couple weeks ago i had to endure a rather unpleasant weekned with my
> > boyfriends southern babtist inlaws. i do not at all mean to generalize
> > southerns or babtists, but i think it helps to set up the scene.
> >
> > my friend and i, to say the least had to bite our tongues on several
> > occasions, but this comments in particular could not be ignored.
> > on eof the men in the family is a preacher, so we'll call him preacher.
> > anyway preacher was saying how amazing and respectable an event it is when
> > birds migrate all the way from canada to right over him in northern
> > georgia. he even said, "if we could only be so strong." then, in the
> > very next sentence said how much more amazing the feeling is of when he
> > shots 'em down. sometimes killing so many he couldn't even find their
> > little bodies.
> >
> > ironic? hypocritical? i still cannot describe what i think of this knid
> > of attitude about nature. is the "respect" justifiably displayed when he
> > shoots them. or is it when he tells the story about shooting them at
> > dinner? there i was at the table passing up the chicken and the green
> > beans with bits of pork lard listening to this. any comments on how
> > others deal in these types of situations? getting into a discussion would
> > be far from successfully, but i am tired of the "they'll never change"
> > attitude.
> >
> > i appreciate any thoughts on the matter.
> >
> > candi
>
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