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From: brahms@trwspp.UUCP
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Subject: Cruelty to worms?
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Date: Wed, 30-May-84 14:47:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 30 14:47:07 1984
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[I kid you not......]

Taken from L.A. Times, May 30, 1984

BRITISH ANIMAL LOVERS PROBE CRUELTY TO WORMS
(from Reuters)

	LISKEARD, England -- Britain's animal defenders have been asked
to look into complaints of cruelty to worms in a contest held in this
Cornwall village.

	The "worm coaxing," where people try by various means to lure
worms from the earth to be measured, was staged by a local pub to raise
money for medical research.  "It's just harmless fun," pub owner Ted
Ellway said.

	After receiving the complaint, a spokesman for the Royal Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said: "We would prefer it if
the worms were left alone. . . .  If they are disturbed like this, they
should be returned to the earth with a little suffering as possible."

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