Consuming a few thousand frogs by local Goans is not going to throw the balance of frog population out of whack. As I have said before, millions more are born each season. Please understand this is a Goan tradition and nothing will change it. You need to provide alternatives and if no alternatives are given, people will continue to catch frogs, regardless of whether it is legal or not. I do not see catching frogs is abuse.
What would you refer to the millions of sardines and mackerels that are netted by mechanized fishing vessels? Would this be considered abuse? Isn't man supposed to go out there in the deep sea and bring in the fish? Why don't you tell local Goans that consuming fish on this scale is dangerous to the eco-system? Why don't you tell Goans to stop fishing on commercial scale? After all, the bigger fish in the sea that survived eating mackerels and sardines suddenly would find no food for themselves and they would all die. This would lead to the chain reaction and pretty much in time, the whole ocean would be empty, huh? Get real, my man ... In this example, we are dealing with wild life, with a capacity to re-populate in the millions. Eating fish is a Goan tradition. Even if you passed a law to stop fishing, nothing would stop Goans from doing so. For this reason, I see, eating frogs is no different .... Now please let me go find my beef - ouch ... that would mean one less cow. Jim F New York. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Blasio Fernandes" <blasio.fernan...@emirates.com> > > > Little knowledge is dangerous. > Amigo, in the earths past history when animals came and went extinct > (from the example you have provided), please be known that nature has / > had its own ways of setting a balance to nature. > Production / reproduction and destruction of lives is natures job and > has not been handed down to man at any given point in time. Man has been > given the wisdom to decide between necessity and abuse and when you > abuse a system, it is not very pleasant as we all with or without the > crappy mentality in the twenty-first century know and innumerable > examples can be provided to substantiate my statement. > Over and out ! > Blasio > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:16:54 +0000 > From: "Jim Fernandes" <amigo...@att.net> > Subject: [Goanet] Torches in the Fields at Night > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > Message-ID: > > <061420090416.21567.4A3479B6000A00E10000543F22230650029B0A02D29B9B0EBFC9 > cfcf0109070...@att.net> > > > Ignorance is bliss? What a crappy mentality in the twenty-first century > !!! > > I say, knowledge is power. > > Be happy in the knowledge that sometimes extinction of a species is good > (see my response in my previous email on this - which is reproduced > below). > > Are frogs really going to vanish, if a few thousand a year are consumed > by humans in Goa? > > Get real, millions are being born every new season. > > Jim F > New York. > > Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:42:44 +0000 > From: "Jim Fernandes" <amigo...@att.net> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Torches in the Fields at Night ... > ... > ... > > > In Earth's past history, millions of animals came and went extinct. > > But the animal world still survived even though it must have disrupted > > > their food chain. For example, the Dinosaurs came and went. That gave > > a perfect opportunity for mammals to take charge - and then to > > eventually give rise to mankind. If Dinoaaurs were to still survive, > > you and I wouldn't be here discussing about the frogs. > > > > Jim F. > > New York. > >
