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Date: | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 07:28:56 -0500 |
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At 07:06 PM 6/17/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Brian Chenensky wrote:
>> Ray Audette (I'm so disappointed, I expected more from you),
>> didn't you ever learn that that if you don't have anything nice to say,
>> don't open your ________mouth? It's hard enought sticking to this diet
>> without reading how wolves kill by biting necks, etc. How is that supposed
>> to help?
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>Again I apologise. I am, by my very nature, an un-civilized man. I hunt
every day for most of the year (if
>falconry is considered hunting and not merely a specialized form of bird
watching). During my sojorne at the
>animal shelters, I also saw man's cruelity to animals at its' very worst.
Given a choice of a future life, I
>would still choose to be a domestic animal over a wild one (even a falcon).
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There is a very good book on animal domestication by Stephen Budiansky
called _The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication_
Probably Ray is familiar with it. For everyone else, I highly recommend
it. It effectively refutes the animal rightist fantasy that animals became
domesticated by being enslaved by humans.
The book is available through amazon.com or other on-line booksellers (It's
probably hard to find in a real bookstore).
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