Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site proper.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!proper!carl From: carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Save the Guars Message-ID: <205@proper.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 02:00:00 EDT Article-I.D.: proper.205 Posted: Tue Aug 13 02:00:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:23:43 EDT References: <533@grkermi.UUCP> <232@kitty.UUCP> <703@umd5.UUCP> <> Reply-To: carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg) Distribution: net Organization: Lunatic Laboratories Unltd. Lines: 36 In article <> bcmbcm@wlcrjs.UUCP (Bruce Maynard) writes: >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... Yah! Anyone ever wonder where VELCRO comes from??? Out in the deserts, these little creatures called velcros (I think they're distant relatives of the coyote) are slaughtered every day. Male and female velcros are slaughtered while stuck together (one has hook-like fur, the other loops) and trying to perpetuate the species. Doesn't anyone know where we get all this stuff that is attributed to modern technology? Carl Greenberg