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- From: acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih)
- Newsgroups: can.general,talk.politics.animals
- Subject: Re: Killing animals (was Re: hunting dog wanted)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.002915.9926@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:29:15 GMT
- References: <C1F7Kq.Lxr@math.uwaterloo.ca> <1993Jan26.014334.6490@cdf.toronto.edu> <C1H6Jq.13M@ecf.toronto.edu> <1993Jan26.193225.4634@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- In <1993Jan26.193225.4634@cdf.toronto.edu> g0ack@cdf.toronto.edu (Andy Brownbill) writes:
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- >In article <C1H6Jq.13M@ecf.toronto.edu> pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
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- >> First worms aren't animals, and then they live after you cut them in half.
- >>Where do you people get your information? Worms -- at least earthworms, which
- >>is what we're talking about -- sure are classified as animals. And the
- >>two halfs might crawl away after you cut the thing in half, but they die soon
- >>afterwards. A chicken runs around after you cut its head off, but it's dead
- >>soon...
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- >I remember being told this way back in grade school. Unfortunately, the
- >ground here is frozen, and I can not get any worms to try this out. When
- >the ground thaws, though, I'll take knife to worm and let you know what
- >happens.
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- Just look in someone's composter. These things function through the
- winter and there's a very good chance that there are some active worms
- that will writhe in agony for you as you conduct your experiments.
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- And now for our next controversial topic: Animal Research.
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- ACS
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