Theos-Talk Archives (February 2008 Message tt00070)

How interesting Mother Nature rights the balance!  I am currently pestered by Possums who eat the new growth from the trees and can even kill them.  As Possums will eat anything, including my chillies, I have decided to throw out the scraps into the garden in the hope they will leave the trees alone.
   
  Cass

MKR <mkr777@gmail.com> wrote:
          This reminds me of the coyotes in our city. They normally attack small
animals such as cats, dogs, and other small wild animals. Recently, a
biologist told the local city officials not to try to exterminate them since
they seem to breed so the optimum population is reached. You kill them, they
breed faster. You learn to live with them, their breeding slows down. It is
quite possible that man's attempt to control population of animals
automatically get the situation out of balance. i also recall several years
ago, Chinese killed all snakes in the farms and the result was an explosion
of rat population which ate a substantial portion of food grains in the
farms. I do not know about kangaroos. i hope some one looks at the situation
from an overall point of view and there may not be need for mass killing.

mkr

On 2/9/08, Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Some people here eat the Kangaroos, I personally couldn't come at it.
> They are regarded as pests in the Bush as they eat all the grasslands etc.
> The aboriginal community survived off them for centuries.
>
> Cass
>
> Martin <Mvandertak@yahoo.com <Mvandertak%40yahoo.com>> wrote:
> Well, when you are at it, 50 million kangaroos...how's
> that for starters...kettle pot black
>
> --- MKR <mkr777@gmail.com <mkr777%40gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Your analogy of cow is a very appropriate one. How
> > about the analogy of
> > killing and eating Horses. They are a delicacy in
> > some parts of the world.
> >
> > mkr
> >
> >
> > On 2/8/08, Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com <silva_cass%40yahoo.com>>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > One thing the video shows is evidence that the
> > Japanese are lying about
> > > their reasons for whaling as being research based.
> > Someone should ask them
> > > what exactly they are researching. They will argue
> > that eating whale is no
> > > different from eating cow, and they have a valid
> > point. I guess the global
> > > community can now put pressure on them to limit
> > the kills by producing what
> > > results have come out of their research. The only
> > way to stop this action is
> > > to shame the Japanese by showing that this act is
> > as barbaric as a savage
> > > eating the heart of a lion to transfer its
> > strength to the eater.
> > >
> > > Cass
> > >
> > > Richard Semock <semockr@hotmail.com <semockr%40hotmail.com>
> > <semockr%40hotmail.com>> wrote:
> > > What if anything can be done? The US govt appealed
> > to the Jap govt
> > > thru diplomatic channels individually and in
> > concert with other
> > > govts. Obviously talking and imploring the Japs to
> > stop the killing
> > > has had little or no effect. What else is there to
> > be done then when
> > > preaching, imploring, and diplomacy doesnt work.
> > Let the whales be
> > > killed off because its their destiny, right?
> > WWHPBD (What Would HPB
> > > Do).
> > >
> > > --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>, MKR
> > > <mkr777@...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > BBC News today showed clips from the video made
> > by Aussie Govt ships
> > > > tracking the Japanese whaling ships hunting and
> > killing mother and
> > > baby
> > > > whales under the euphemism of research. In
> > today's world cruelty is
> > > hidden
> > > > under nice sounding words and those who can see
> > these pictures can
> > > judge for
> > > > themselves. Western world call themselves
> > civilized and when you
> > > see these
> > > > pictures one wonders if the aborigines living in
> > remote areas are
> > > more
> > > > civilized -- they do not resort to mass cruelty
> > and killing and
> > > destruction
> > > > (all one needs to see what is happening in Iraq
> > and Afghanistan)
> > > and self
> > > > inflicted wounds -- physical and mental -- the
> > maimed and killed
> > > young men
> > > > and women coming from war front.
> > > >
> > > > mkr
> > > >
> > > > On 2/7/08, nhcareyta <nhcareyta@...> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > A recent blog contribution to this issue from
> > one A. Viirlaid.
> > > > >
> > > > > "I think the whale hunt is cruel,
> > hypocritical, and not worthy of
> > > > > humans.
> > > > > We need to protect and serve life.
> > > > > Otherwise we lose our primary reason for
> > living.
> > > > > I wrote a poem about the whaling last year and
> > it has now
> > > happened.
> > > > > A mother whale and her calf are gone from our
> > midst.
> > > > > Please protect all of our friends in the
> > oceans.
> > > > >
> > > > > Lament of Mother Whale
> > > > >
> > > > > I cry for our shared grace
> > > > > I cry for your human family
> > > > > I cry for your whaler's family
> > > > > I cry for my family
> > > > > I cry for me
> > > > >
> > > > > With your warm hand you could stroke my skin
> > like so many of your
> > > > > family have chosen to do
> > > > > You would feel my warmth and gratitude
> > > > >
> > > > > Why do you touch me only with your cold
> > harpoon as you thrust it
> > > into
> > > > > my flesh?
> > > > > I thought after so much killing that we would
> > both crave harmony
> > > > >
> > > > > That we had learned that we both feel and love
> > > > > That we both treasure life
> > > > > That we revere our comrades
> > > > > That we embrace our children
> > > > >
> > > > > That we share the same blood of our ancestors
> > > > > That our hearts both beat the rhyme of life
> > > > >
> > > > > How my child will cling to me as you haul my
> > dying carcass out of
> > > the
> > > > > sea
> > > > > How she will cry
> > > > > Until you kill her too."
> > > > >
> > > > >
> >
> http://blogs.thewest.com.au/news/news-blog-should-we-intervene-to-
> > > > > stop-this-slaughter/
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>
> >
> <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com><theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > > > > "nhcareyta" <nhcareyta@> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> >
> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&ContentID=57621
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