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F R E N D Z of martian
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Save the Whales! Money!
On Mon, 08 Nov 1999, Doug Lee wrote:
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> F R E N D Z of martian
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> > From: hondinia
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> > Next time you think you're having a bad day..............
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> > 1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil
> > spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most
> > expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and
> > applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both
> > eaten by a killer whale.
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> Where's the bad thing here? We have a a couple of seals who presumably had
> several months of steady supply of fish in a nicely coddled environment away
> from the stress of big black and white orcas trying to make a meal out of
> them. We have a large number of people who obviously got a great deal of
> satisfaction out of repairing some of the damange done by an environmental
> disaster. Not least we have a slightly fatter killer whale that presumably
> has been having a bad time recently on account of it's main source of food
> being dead or otherwise covered in an unpalatable goo.
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> I suppose there might have been a cheaper way of feeding the whale, but on
> the whole I can't see the problem.
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> Doug
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