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- From: heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM )
- Subject: Re: Christmas tree alternative?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.212327.12356@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
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- Date: 17 NOV 92 15:17:55
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- In article <1992Nov17.161528.28937@cbnewse.cb.att.com>, pwyc@cbnewse.cb.att.com (peter.w.chen) writes...
-
- >I don't understand the argument that "it'll be cut down anyway". It was cut
- >down because the X tree speculators anticipated demand for it. If there was
- >no demand, it would not have been cut down.
-
- Actually, it wouldn't have been grown in the first place. By not
- buying a Xmas tree you are denying the tree of the few happy years it
- would have had - growing gleefully on a tree farm. Except, of course,
- when the tree farmer had to shape it. Poor little tree, unable to
- scream as it's branches were clipped so it would be the perfect shape
- for stings of popcorn.
-
- Personally, I buy only "free range" Xmas trees.
-
- JGH
-