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From: bcmbcm@wlcrjs.UUCP (Bruce Maynard)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Re: Save the Guars
Message-ID: <128@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 16:48:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 16:48:02 1985
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Reply-To: bcmbcm@wlcrjs.UUCP (Bruce Maynard)
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In article <703@umd5.UUCP> davida@umd5.UUCP writes:
>> > In the time it takes you to read this, 200-500 innocent guars will be brutally
>> > slaughtered by heartless guar hunters.  Their gums will be removed (in an
>> > unspeakably crude fashion, sometimes before the guar has even stopped moving)
>> > and sold to multinational food processing corporations so that Yuppie ice
>> > cream may have a smoother texture.
>> 
>> 	What is even worse than the senseless slaughter of guars, is the
>> continual killing of innocent people in the Middle East in order to make
>> GUM ARABIC.  No wonder there is anti-American feeling in the Middle East!
>> 
>
>    Almost as bad as that, is the raising of small defensless creatures
>merely for the use of their skins.  Yes, of course, I'm talking about those
>adorable little fellows, naugas.  Do YOU know how many naugas must be 
>slaughtered to make one sofa???  And while we're on the subject, what about
>polyesters?????  Are the tastless jackets really worth it????
>
>C'mon, let's wake up and face the music!  This is as sensless as killing
>whales for lamp oil !!!!
>
>-- 

This sort of thing really bothers me... and what's worse, there's even MORE!!
 
Tartaric acid (This people is almost extinct!)
Fehling's solution (a great man gave his LIFE to make this stuff... yet it's squandered daily.)
Tannic acid:  This one makes me SICK! Imagine, hundreds of Californians are POWDERED every day!
Antipersperant: I can't BELIEVE people actually POISON the poor li'l buggers, just 'cause they smell funny...