> Chris Doss wrote:
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> >C. Therefore, killing of animals should be minimized.
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> No, the killing of animals is an absolutely necessary element of any
> functioning ecosystem.
Normally I avoid using any profanity but here I have to quote one of my favorite bloggers, Dave Fiore*:
"Muthafuck that food-chain!"
http://ynot.motime.com/post/409316
<cite> Ah well...it's just a fact of life--the more people (and animals) you care about, the more likely you are to develop an ulcer! Take last night, f'rinstance--I was strolling across the campus, on my way to meet up with some new friends at The Beggar's Banquet (which is an awesome place, incidentally), and I found myself face to face (or, rather, beak-to-knee) with one of these:
(That's a juvenile bald eagle my friends...)
I walked right up to him/her and we stared at each other for at least five minutes... Sure, we've all had encounters like this with pigeons and gulls, and (for me, lately) ducks... but this is a fuckin' bird of prey man! How could this happen? Well, I'll tell ya--this flying shark was perched on a gushing pile of rabbit entrails, and wasn't about to leave them without a fight, that's why. That's what drew me to the spot, initially--the blood... thinking maybe I could play superhero to a creature in need. But since the creature in question no longer had a head, I switched into awe-mode pretty quickly... Muthafuck that food-chain! </cite>
Best regards Franz Fuchs
* I like his historiographic papers, for example:
A Horse is a Horse--Of Course: Sympathy and the Subaltern in Postbellum America http://ynot.motime.com/post/450678
A (Very) Short Historiography of the New Right in America http://ynot.motime.com/post/445059
Enlightened Romantics--The Origins of Liberal-Democratic Faith in America http://pleasemo.motime.com/1068646073#171545
Sectionalism and Synecdochic Strife in America http://pleasemo.motime.com/1103247246#390482
Frederick Douglass and the Complexion of Liberalism http://pleasemo.motime.com/post/202799
On historiography and the Consensus History http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/17/024143.php
and as a lighthearted conclusion to this list
Clobberin' Time: Escapism, Engagement, and the Dialectic of Excitement in Marvel Comics, 1961-1966 http://ynot.motime.com/post/565088