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- From: bailebn@mail.auburn.edu (Bliss Bailey)
- Subject: Re: the threat from animal-rights and environme
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:32:27 GMT
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- In article mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM, mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) writes:
- >Perhaps the single greatest threat to the rural way of life is that posed by
- >the animal-rights and environmentalist movement. These people are evangelical
- >in their religion -- and it *is* a religion -- and are utterly intolerant of
- >any viewpoint which does not match their own.
-
- I'm so confused! I enjoy the "rural way of life", and yet I consider myself
- an environmentalist, and I believe in animal rights in so much as I deplore
- the conditions in which some domestic animals are kept. How can this be?
- Have I been wrong all these years? Is my life not rural?
-
- It feels rural. I have no garbage pick-up. I have no "city" water.
- Hell, I don't even have electricity. I do have old farm equipment in my yard.
- My neighbor harvests hundreds of tons of hay from our pasture every year. I can
- grow much more than I can eat. I drive down a dirt road to my property which I
- have to maintain. It feels rural. And I am certified by licensed medical
- and psychological experts not to be a threat to myself or my lifestyle. All of
- these contradictions will keep me up for hours....
-
- >Ironically, these people are often the same ones who gather in
- >``celebration of rural life'' and sing insipid songs in praise of farming.
-
- Hey, buddy. I'm only a novice on the harmonica, but don't call my
- songs "insipid".
-
- >We need to counter their propaganda and reclaim the scientific high ground in
- >the public's eye, or we'll become extinct.
-
- The solution is obvious. Have as many children as humanly possible and
- overwhelm the evil New-Agers with a flood from the loins of Right Thinkers
- everywhere.
-
- But seriously, don't sweat those evil New Age environmentalist animal rights
- activists. Everybody knows "consciousness is self-eliminating."
-
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