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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.activism,misc.activism.progressive
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace KILLS baby seals
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:18:08 GMT
- Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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- Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Message-ID: <Jym.27Jan1993.0918@naughty-peahen>
- References: <1993Jan27.003643.9234@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Summary: Your finger is pointed at the wrong party.
- In-reply-to: bdellert@nic.gac.edu's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:36:43 GMT
-
- > In the past month, 3 people have told me that Greenpeace
- > sprayed baby seals with a dye, so trappers wouldn't kill
- > them (their fur became useless). But it turned out the
- > dye was toxic and killed the baby seals.
-
- =o= I believe the real problem was that the dye made the seals
- more visible to their predators. Amongst these predators were
- the baby seal hunters, who killed them out of spite.
-
- =o= Greenpeace discontinued the practice years ago.
- <_Jym_>
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