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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Flame Broiled Veal
Message-ID: <140@talcott.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 13:22:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 13:22:25 1984
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> Last Sunday I was driving back to Boston, and coming up the Garden State
> Parkway through New Jersey and New York, I saw a group of 3 cars coming
> back from a hunting trip.  Now I eat meat, and it doesn't offend me to
> think of people hunting for food, but these men were obviously not
> starving to death, so I assume they were hunting for sport.  Between
> them they had a total of 6 bucks and 2 bears tied onto their cars.  With
> dead, open eyes staring at me.  I have not been as offended as I was
> then in a long time.  First of all, I was disgusted with these men,
> looking so smug and proud of themselves for killing eight wild animals.
> Very macho.  I was not impressed.  Second of all, why should I have to
> look at these dead animals, tied onto the trunk of someone's car?  At
> the very least they could have covered them.  But WHY DID THEY KILL THEM
> IN THE FIRST PLACE?
...
> 	Marie desJardins
> 	marie@harvard

The way I see it, since deer are overpopulated, it doesn't hurt me or you
if the hunters take out a few.  I mean, it might not be a nice thing to do,
but it's *their* business, not mine.  Just because I wouldn't do such a
thing myself, it doesn't mean that they shouldn't be allowed to.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

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