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- From: g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh)
- Subject: Re: Beluga Funnies in Manitoba (was something else)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.145737.8644@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility
- References: <1993Jan21.044959.23730@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:57:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.044959.23730@julian.uwo.ca> larocqu@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (JOHN LAROCQUE) writes:
- >In article <jester-200193112720@cc-k-box3.cc.umanitoba.ca> jester@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jonathan Esterhazy) writes:
- >>The Canadian government (Department of Fisheries and Oceans) announced at
- >>the
- >>end of December that it would no longer permit the live capture of beluga
- >>whales for export. This is an important step forward for the anti-captivity
- >>and conservation movements in Canada (and internationally, as Canada is a
- >>chief supplier of beluga whales for aquariums around the world).
- >
- >Like all of those evil animal rights people who let monkeys
- >free in the fields of Alberta. Real smart guys.
-
- Could you give a reference for your claim that monkeys were let free in
- the fields of Alberta?
- >
- >>2. The transfer of jurisdiction over this population to a Natural Resources
- >>portfolio.
- >
- >How about ministry of animal rights....
- >
- That would be more appropriate but right now there isn't such a ministry.
-
- >>Canadian aquariums be used as short term rehabilitation units for ailing
- >>Beluga populations, such as those in the St. Lawrence River, and that the
- >
- >Maybe THIS is why we are running out of Health Care money for humans. Oh.
- >I forgot - humans = animals.
- >
- Where did all this humans = animals stuff come from? The proposal is to
- use *existing* facilities, not to spend a lot of money building new ones.
-
- (Interested parties should note that followups are directed to talk.politics.
- animals).
- --
- Rosemary Waigh Undergraduate, Computer Science / Linguistics
- g9rwaigh@cdf.utoronto.ca University of Toronto
- "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
- concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." - Emerson
-