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Old 03-12-2007, 05:05 PM
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Glad you liked them Nicole---I didn't know many of the facts about Slaughter---nasty business but like anything else, the key to me is how humane it is. I'd like it gone entirely but is that realistic? No.
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Old 03-12-2007, 05:09 PM
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Glad you liked them Nicole---I didn't know many of the facts about Slaughter---nasty business but like anything else, the key to me is how humane it is. I'd like it gone entirely but is that realistic? No.
I agree that the best path towards improving things is looking at what is realistic. Animal-rights groups will not likely ever persuade most of America to turn vegetarian, for example, but I bet if they really pushed for more humane conditions for food animals, they could get most people behind them on that. Many European nations have laws in place securing the humane treatment of food animals; I imagine we could follow suit if we really wanted to.
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Old 03-12-2007, 05:11 PM
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If I ever got money--I'd donate to animal cruelty causes before anything else. Kills me....Except Canadian Geese--my weakness, they should be done away with, but not cruelly.
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Old 03-12-2007, 06:16 PM
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If I ever got money--I'd donate to animal cruelty causes before anything else. Kills me....Except Canadian Geese--my weakness, they should be done away with, but not cruelly.
Yeah, I'm not such a fan of Canada geese, either (Canadian geese would have to be citizens of Canada. I'm sure my 10th grade biology teacher would be so proud of me right now- he was a bit of a birding nut). There are an awful lot of them by the Harlem Meer, and they're messy and nasty. And proliferate very easily. Darn generalists.
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Old 03-12-2007, 06:20 PM
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Yeah, I'm not such a fan of Canada geese, either (Canadian geese would have to be citizens of Canada. I'm sure my 10th grade biology teacher would be so proud of me right now- he was a bit of a birding nut). There are an awful lot of them by the Harlem Meer, and they're messy and nasty. And proliferate very easily. Darn generalists.
I am a huge fan of them...but they don't winter up here so we never have the huge groups that are gross and dirty...
Last year my dog chased a pair that had a little gosling...mom and dad jumped in the pond...baby went the other way...after I called off Mrs. P, I caught the little bugger and brought him back to the pond...cutest fuzziest thing
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Old 03-12-2007, 07:19 PM
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I am a huge fan of them...but they don't winter up here so we never have the huge groups that are gross and dirty...
Last year my dog chased a pair that had a little gosling...mom and dad jumped in the pond...baby went the other way...after I called off Mrs. P, I caught the little bugger and brought him back to the pond...cutest fuzziest thing
Yeah-- for Canada geese, they sure seem to not be a fan of cold weather!

You're lucky the parents didn't go after you- when I played an Australian character at the Prospect Park Zoo I had to keep a Cape Barron Goose company and people would ask me the difference between a duck and a goose. I told them if they chased it it was probably a duck. If it chased them it was probably a goose.

I did love that goose, Lucy. She was a character. She preferred my bottle of chilled water to her own dish of water so she would sit next to me and cough cough cough as though she were just DYING of thirst, until I'd fill my bottle cap with water and give it to her.
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Old 03-16-2007, 01:20 PM
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There are limits on shooting the Canadians here in Texas. They come in massive numbers to the area where a lot of rice is grown (East Texas). They are good to eat. I very much enjoyed my goose hunting experience with them. I did not hunt but identified the birds by binocular so that my partner could shoot the correct type of goose and kill the proper number.

If horses can be killed humanely I see nothing wrong with eating them. Better than letting them starve in some field like is reported time after time all over the country.

I personally could not eat a horse unless I was starving. Same with cats and dogs, but thats my little problem.
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