I’m starting to hear a new term “deniers” – people who question global warming theory. That’s interesting. Sounds a little like “heretic” doesn’t it? Has a tinge of shrillness about it. People need something to cling to, something to defend, an excuse to burn people in the village square.
A few years ago, near Vancouver, some anti-fur activists broke into a mink farm and released all the minks. Yay for minks. They promptly ran amuck (amink?) and killed all the local birds and frogs and a few cats. Minks are vicious.
Another time some animal people notified a supermarket chain at Thanksgiving they had poisoned some of the turkeys in some of the stores, thereby forcing the chain to discard all their birds to be safe. The other chains did likewise and then 20,000 new turkeys were promptly slaughtered and shipped under security back to the stores in time. Yay for turkeys. Saved them from the minks.
A few years ago, near Vancouver, some anti-fur activists broke into a mink farm and released all the minks. Yay for minks. They promptly ran amuck (amink?) and killed all the local birds and frogs and a few cats. Minks are vicious.
Another time some animal people notified a supermarket chain at Thanksgiving they had poisoned some of the turkeys in some of the stores, thereby forcing the chain to discard all their birds to be safe. The other chains did likewise and then 20,000 new turkeys were promptly slaughtered and shipped under security back to the stores in time. Yay for turkeys. Saved them from the minks.
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Much like the local story (maybe apocrophal) about the crusteacean's friend, actor Sally Field. She apparently showed up at our annual lobster festival about 10 years back, insisting that boiling these sea cockroaches with the merest of rudimentary ganglions was wicked cruel. She purchased several dozen live lobsters and released them into the bay, saying something like "free! free! Swim you ugly buggers!" (or similar, I imagine). Alas, she had forgotten to take the bands off their claws, and they were most likely massacred and eaten by their cannibalistic bretheren.
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