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Crazy and odd pet laws
Sherry wrote: On Feb 22, 8:43 am, Sherry wrote: To backtrack: I don't think there's anything wrong with raising livestock for slaughter. It's probably the smart thing to do if you eat meat, and want to really control what's in the meat you consume. What I meant was, I'd get too attached. I'd probably even get emotionally attached to a chicken. Sherry I have a (vegetarian) friend who raises chickens. She has no problem with eating eggs (since they are infertile, lacking a rooster), but when a chicken dies, she holds a "funeral" for it, as she does for deceased cats. |
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Sensible pet laws (as: Crazy and odd pet laws)
Jack Campin wrote: Spotted this in another group (Nick Odell in uk.media.radio.archers): : On a previous trip to Canada I visited the Ottawa Parliament. The : architecture makes a nod in the direction of the Westminster Houses : of Parliament but that is where the resemblance ends. There's a : stray cats' shelter in the grounds, supported by the public through : voluntary donations. A childrens' playground. Anybody seems to be : able to wander anywhere and free conducted tours are encouraged. : I was about to write that Canadians seem to feel that it's their : building, the MPs are their elected representatives and it all belongs : to them but I don't think that quite gets to the heart of it: it's : almost as if the questions about access never even needed to be asked. : Contrast that with the mother of parliaments shrouded in steel and : surrounded by a no-demonstration zone. When did it all go wrong? When : did we start electing people who feel they need to be protected from : us? The world has changed (not for the better) in the last sixty-odd years, that's for sure! Someone sent me an E-mail pointing out that, when the Trumans left the White House, Harry and Bess drove back to Independence, MO in the family car (no Secret Service escort). They moved back into the home he inherited from his parents, and spent the rest of their lives there, no bodyguards present or required. |
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Crazy and odd pet laws
Sherry wrote:
I've heard pigs are pretty smart. I've never had one, and can't understand how people raise livestock for slaughter. Still, about twenty years ago it became trendy for people to have these crossbred, small pigs as housepets. I don't care *how* smart or cute they are. They grow up, and you have a *hog* in your house. But to give respect where respect is due, I have a real affinity for pigs as I wouldn't be alive without replacement parts which came from one. Sherry To paraphrase Churchill. Cats look down on us, dogs look up to us, pigs treat us as equals. -- Adrian |
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