OT: Loving an image you really hate
I was just wandering around the net and chanced upon this, which I'm sure at least some of you have seen before. I am NEVER tossing a seagull scraps again. http://forums.naturephotographers.net/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=8306088241&f=7086090941&m=7221014 Sigh. Ryan
RE: Loving an image you really hate
That'll just make them hunt baby ducks more. More scraps will make them dependent on you and they won't need to hunt baby ducks. Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 > -Original Message- > From: Ryan Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:19 AM > To: PDML > Subject: OT: Loving an image you really hate > > > I was just wandering around the net and chanced upon this, > which I'm sure at > least some of you have seen before. I am NEVER tossing a > seagull scraps > again. > http://forums.naturephotographers.net/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=83060882 41&f=7086090941&m=7221014 Sigh. Ryan
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I once heard someone say in a radio interview "oh yeah, I love animals.. they taste good.." But yes seriously I suppose the gull's doing what it's got to do. I'd imagine it'd be just heartwrenching for the mother duck though. Call me a pansy, but if I was the one taking the shot, I don't know how long I could stick around before starting to feel some kind of guilty. To put some stuff on the other dish of the scales, I once caught a doco on birds (it wasn't "Travelling Birds" I don't think, but that was excellent) and it showed two parent waterfowl (might have been ducks) picking on, or pecking on if you want to say, the weakest looking chick while it was on the water, til it was too worn from the abuse and too tired to even try to float. The parents left the other 4 or 5 chicks alone. The commentary went on to reason that the parents just couldn't cope with so many chicks, so they had to get rid of the one that looked as if it had the least chance to survive. I thought it was terribly depressing, and I suppose in a sense it's just more proof that nature's much more than "oh that's so pretty".. Regards, Ryan - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:07 AM Subject: Re: Loving an image you really hate > Bumper sticker: "If we're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made of > meat?" > > Seriously, though, the gulls are just doing what it takes to survive. People do > much more cruel things on a daily basis, some of it to "lower" animals, some of > it to other people. There was a dog at a local shelter recently who had been > tied to a tree in the woods and left to starve after her puppies had been taken > from her. Fortunately, she has now been fostered and adopted out to a proper > family.
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- Original Message - From: "Ryan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I was just wandering around the net and chanced upon this, which I'm sure at > least some of you have seen before. I am NEVER tossing a seagull scraps > again. > http://forums.naturephotographers.net/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=8306088241&f=7086090941&m=7221014 > > Sigh. > Ryan Sad for the duck. You have to admire the gull's ability to exploit a variety of food sources, though. The ducks' lack of response to a new threat isn't exactly a favourable trait. Oh, well. Evolution at work, I suppose. Jostein
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You are assuming a lot more mental power in ducks than they really have. Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 > But yes seriously I suppose the gull's doing what it's got to do. I'd > imagine it'd be just heartwrenching for the mother duck > though.
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> > Bumper sticker: "If we're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made of > meat?" Yet another good bumper-sticker slogan butchered (sic) by the sub-editor. The right slogan: If we're not supposed to eat *people*, why are they made of meat? Or, in the Flanders & Swann version (which predates any bumper-sticker): If the Juju had meant us not to eat people, He wouldn't have made us of meat! As far as I can tell this is the original, from their 1956 review.
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On 5/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >I once heard someone say in a radio interview "oh yeah, I love animals.. >they taste good.." There's a bumper sticker on a guy's car locally that reads: 'I like cats - they taste like chicken' Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
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> > Bumper sticker: "If we're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made of > > meat?" > > Yet another good bumper-sticker slogan butchered (sic) by the sub-editor. > > The right slogan: > > If we're not supposed to eat *people*, why are they made of meat? > > Or, in the Flanders & Swann version (which predates any bumper-sticker): > > If the Juju had meant us not to eat people, > He wouldn't have made us of meat! > > As far as I can tell this is the original, from their 1956 review. I am so offended by this post, I am a vegetarian you know... ;-) j/k, - my family tend to only eat small amounts of red meat, but we LIVE on chicken - eat it probably 5 times a week. This is because of two reason really - taste - no-one in our house likes Pork, (w!), only likes Lamb a little bit, and although we all like a good steak, we can't afford to eat it very often. This, despite the fact that we live, smack bang in the middle of the "Beef Capital of Australia" - yes, they take a beast from paddock 1km from here, they slaughter him, cut it up, send it to Brisbane for distribution and then send it back to us with a 500% mark-up! Ironic, isn't it? Anyways, I have discovered that chicken mince makes THE yummiest lasagne... tan.
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Hi, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: > > Anyways, I have discovered that chicken mince makes THE yummiest lasagne... Try turkey. 8-) mike
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A whole lotta chickens gotta die to equal one steer! Regards, Bob... "There are rotten people in the world that cannot be cured by magical hippy love." -- Lynda Barry > From: Tanya Mayer Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > j/k, - my family tend to only eat small amounts of red meat, but we LIVE > on chicken - eat it probably 5 times a week.
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:18:12 -0600, Len Paris wrote: > There's room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the > mashed potatoes. An oldie but a goodie ... PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Animals TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
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On 5/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >A whole lotta chickens gotta die to equal one steer! When I get to GFM, somebody ask me about my 'pig with the wooden leg' joke. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
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Hmmm... Reminds me of a pro-whaling T-shirt: "Intelligent food for intelligent people" :-) Jostein Quoting Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > An oldie but a goodie ... > > PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Animals > > > TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ > > > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.