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From: archiel@hercules.UUCP (Archie Lachner)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: MOLES!!!  YOU DON'T HAVE TO KILL THEM!!!
Message-ID: <158@hercules.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 14:38:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 10 14:38:10 1984
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Next someone will be telling me that I shouldn't kill slugs, snails, and
insects!  I'm not one to go around snuffing out the life of every animal
I encounter, but I have no qualms about killing off garden pests.  However,
I do advocate quick and humane methods of extermination.

Nature is full of killing; animals kill each other in order to eat and
survive.  This is what I am doing, albeit indirectly, by killing garden
pests that compete with me for a food supply.  Even if you eat only food
bought at a store, chances are that animals (in the broad sense, insects
included) were killed during its production.  I count the use of predatory
insects in organic gardening in this as well.

I don't agree that killing of animals is wrong.  Random and needless killing
or killing that is slow and/or painful is wrong.  I doubt that there is a
man or woman alive who has not benefited, directly or indirectly, from the
death of many of God's creatures.  I believe animals should be treated with
respect, but that this does not prohibit killing for survival.
-- 

				Archie Lachner
				Logic Design Systems Division
				Tektronix, Inc.

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