Turtle soup anyone?
Gordon Fitch
gcf at panix.com
Thu Feb 8 04:31:26 PST 2001
Peter Kosenko:
> ...
> Eating the turtle doesn't seem especially to have
> violated the spirit of the law (that endangered
> species should not be DELIBERATELY killed for
> use), since the animal died by accident. But it
> seems to have violated the "no use" letter of it.
> If I were a judge, I wouldn't toss them in jail
> for it.
> ...
It is probably considered bad form for the _homines_
_sapientes_ at a zoo or an aquarium to forget that
they're above it all to the extent of eating the other
inmates. Someone might think they were animals.
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