Re: Be a bit realistic

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Posted by Coralee on May 24, 2000 at 17:17:39:

In Reply to: Re: Be a bit realistic posted by Logic in Action on May 24, 2000 at 15:37:16:

Logic in Action wrote:

>They infest farmers crops and eat their weight >in food per day

Hi Logic:

Somehow I'm having difficulty working up much sympathy for these farmers, in part because the tortoises no doubt were there first.

Do these marauding tortoises swoop in like locusts and leave decimated croplands in their wake? Do the farmers have to beat them back with sticks? Has this been videotaped?

I don't mean to be rude here, but I'm of the strong opinion that wildlife has value in its native land (even "marauding" wildlife) and needs protection as much as farmers do.

I'm thinking specifically of sharks, which as "undesirable" specieshave been decimated world-wide. Sharks don't have enough of a "cute" image to help them out. ALL wild animals deserve our consideration, even the ones that raid farmer's fields. NO species deserves to be ground up into mink food (or shipped to pet stores) simply because there are "inconvenient" millions of them in the wild.

Don't mean to be rude.. JMHO.

Coralee

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: Logic in Action wrote: : : >They infest farmers crops and eat their weight >in food per day : Hi Logic: : Somehow I'm having difficulty working up much sympathy for these farmers, in part because the tortoises no doubt were there first. : Do these marauding tortoises swoop in like locusts and leave decimated croplands in their wake? Do the farmers have to beat them back with sticks? Has this been videotaped? : I don't mean to be rude here, but I'm of the strong opinion that wildlife has value in its native land (even "marauding" wildlife) and needs protection as much as farmers do. : I'm thinking specifically of sharks, which as "undesirable" specieshave been decimated world-wide. Sharks don't have enough of a "cute" image to help them out. ALL wild animals deserve our consideration, even the ones that raid farmer's fields. NO species deserves to be ground up into mink food (or shipped to pet stores) simply because there are "inconvenient" millions of them in the wild. : : Don't mean to be rude.. JMHO. : Coralee

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