B Z Bee wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:40:28 +0200, "Philip Hart"

wrote:


Nick Maclaren wrote in message
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Follow our top 10 tips for a Cruelty-Free Summer!

various snips follow

Unwanted visitors to your garden can be humanely
deterred. There's no need to kill slugs, bugs and
creepie crawlies!

Save the humble worm! Earth worms are a vital part of
keeping our environment and food chain healthy. So
don't squash them


I was told that they not only failed to use worm-friendly
ploughing but actually admitted to killing thousands of
these lovable and harmless creatures annually as they
tilled the soil. How barbaric!

Really saunby! no doubt you have peer reviewed references
for that statement?

See the paper Humpalot I. and P. Parsnip (2001) "Lumbricus
terrestris mortality by ploughing and its effect on survival
rates" in Bisslinger P. (ed.) Proc. Congr. Org. Prot. Worm
2000
pp. 3.(incl. bibliograpy).

Next stop the organic salad, only to be told that the
lettuces were protected by placing lethal beer traps for
beautiful and friendly slugs and snails that were, after
all, only doing what comes naturally.

My organic salad is shared with slugs happily, or the
sacrificial side of my garden is.

What a brilliant idea. Surely a Nobel prize on the way. I
rushed back to the nurseryman growing organic lettuce to
tell him. We talked agitatedly for some minutes about which
languages should be used on notices directing the
creatures to the sacrificial sector - Molluscan for one,
obviously, but also Caterpillarish and Aphinch. Then we both
fell to the ground shrieking "Bwahahahahahaha"

made with not an ounce of flesh, just pure Brazilian
Soya. Questioning the manager revealed that the soy
plants came straight from the Matto Grosso and only a
few sorry forest Indians and their families had to die in
order to produce it.

Peer reviewed, scientific references would be handy once
again,

Too many to list, Ms. Bee. You should try contacting
Greenpeace or WWF if you actually want to know about this
human tragedy. But you don't want to know, do you? Forest
Indians eat birds and monkeys, so it has to be good news if
we replace them with Soya "factories", right?

PH