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- From: lynns@informix.com (Lynn Schneider)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural,ba.general,talk.politics.animals,ba.mountain-folk
- Subject: Re: The Neglected Sheep in Marin
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.000320.3921@informix.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 00:03:20 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.065859.23884@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan19.163302.2127@island.COM>
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- In article <1993Jan19.163302.2127@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.065859.23884@leland.Stanford.EDU> shedevil@gw.home.vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell, J.D.) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>I just saw the piece on the news about the *300*+ sheep that were
- >>taken in by the Marin Humane Society. It was tragic, and disgusting.
- >> (stuff deleted)
-
- >>What do others think about this?
- >
- >What's the difference between neglecting sheep and torturing animals
- >in lab experiments or factory-farming, for that matter? It's just
- >as disgusting, but you won't find the D.A. pressing charges. I'm
- >not suggesting he shouldn't be prosecuted. It's just that there is
- >a lot of terrible animal abuse that goes on every day that people
- >just don't want to look at.
- >--
-
- True, Robert, but that doesn't make it any less horrible. Perhaps one
- day we humans will discover that torturing animals for ANY purposes,
- intentional or unintentional, must be stopped.
-
- And please, no long flaming threads about this subject. Those belong on
- other newsgroups, IMHO.
-