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- From: viking@bnr.ca (Harold Henrikson)
- Subject: Re: Eating killed animals (was Re: Gun Control Petition)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.133552.3559@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 13:35:52 GMT
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- >Actually there are many people who are dying of starvaton. If we are going to
- >grow more grain than we need, it seems to me that it would be better used to
- >feed those who already exist rather than breeding animals to eat it.
-
- Of course the outcome of that particular flavour of brainless altruism never enters
- the mind of those who propose it.
-
- 1. If we are feeding them for free where is the incentive for them to feed themselves?
- Why would a local start raising food? Profit? Kind of hard to undercut the price
- of free.
- 2. If we are supporting them do we not have the right and indeed the responsibility of
- politically controlling them to ensure the aid is not wasted?
- 3. If we have a responsibility to feed the starving in the name of humanity do we not
- also have a responsibility to take care of them totally (free medical care, welfare
- money, job trainging, etc)?
- 4. If the starvation is a result of overpopulation and we really want to solve the
- problem do we not have a responsibility of sterilizing a good portion of the subject
- population to ensure a cure to the situation?
-
- Having said all that, I do support food aid for the poor and starving; here and overseas
- - BUT NOT AS A SOLUTION TO THE CAUSATIVE PROBLEM. By all means feed the Somalian people
- - BUT SHOOT THE BLOOD-THIRSTY BASTARDS THAT STARTED THE CIVIL WAR. Feed the Bosnians -
- BUT NUKE BELGRADE UNTIL IT GLOWS AND CALL IT A WORLD MONUMENT TO INSANITY!
-
- Let us either find solutions or leave things alone. That sounds cruel but consider what
- UN peace-keeping in Cyprus accomplished over the last 20-odd years - no settlement of the
- issue and no incentive to find one. Now that we're finally pulling out the Turks and
- Greeks can either settle things by themselves or go back to killing each other off.
- --
- Harold Henriksen Bell-Northern Research
- email: viking@bmerh694.bnr.ca Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
-
- Pillaging and plundering were more fun than programming!
- (Opinions are not my employer's and sometimes not mine)
-