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Drosera
at Sun Feb 6 01:20:46 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Drosera ]
>>so if i say kill than thats different.
>>I personally dont stun anything i either kill it or the snake does..and i'm not gonna call it dispatchhed or any other PC word you choose to use...i just cant believe that you guys think that because you get all PC or dont say stunned that the animal rights people are gonna be trying less to take your animals away.
>>There is no winning with those people...
I'm not saying we should reason with the animal rights people. Frankly I think they're psycho (I mean comparing killing chickens for food to the holocaust???) and no amount of PC wording will slow them down.
However, look at the average Joe (or Jill) with 2.5 kids, cat, dog and parakeet. The thought of a snake keeper severely injuring a furry mammal and tossing the dying animal to a snake is disturbing to them and for damn good reason.
But replace the scenario with a rat humanely euthanized via CO2 (euthanasia isn't a PC term but perfectly accurate so long as it refers to a painless and reliable way to kill an animal) and then fed to a snake. That would be far more acceptable to the average person.
The animal rightists aren't looking for things to piss themselves off with, (they're already plenty ticked off in general) they're looking for things they can use to shock and disturb the public with.
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0.2 chickens
0.2 dog mutts (half ownership, only mine when they misbehave)
0.1 Halflinger horse
0.0 Arizona Mountain Kingsnake (coming soon)
1.1 parents
Still searching for 1.0 WC human
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RE: Issue on speaking freely - Drosera, Sun Feb 6 01:20:46 2005