Hmmm
This turning into a food fight???
Chuck
If we weren't meant to eat animals why are they made of meat?
On 7/1/2008 1:46:10 PM, M. G. Devour ([email protected]) wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I do hope nobody will be too shocked to discover that some of our
> members participate in and/or approve of hunting.
>
> Natural populations experience cycles of growth, saturation, starvation
> and die-off. Managed hunting is one way to siphon off some of that
> surplus energy and can spare the (rest of the) herd from the cruel
> effects of gross overpopulation.
>
> Of course, the whole concept depends on the assumption that we have
> some inherent right to kill and eat some of the other creatures that
> share the planet with us, and/or the obligation to somehow protect them
> from the consequences of their own natural behaviors.
>
> It has the potential to be an interesting debate, but it is *certainly*
> beyond the scope of our charter! Instead, we'll let other members make
> those choices for themselves and leave them be, okay?
>
> Thank you.
>
> The Off Topic list is also available if anyone would care to continue
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>
> Be well!
>
> Mike D.
>
> [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian]
> [[email protected]
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