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"Cut Class, Not Frogs"
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| October 21, 2002
| Katharine Mieszkowski
Posted on 10/21/2002 5:23:22 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
He says that there is no good argument for eating meat, including "It's tasty," because "its only tasty once you garnish it and you put salt and pepper and you cook it and you have to do 300 things to it to disguise its true taste. If you put garnishes on a chair or fabric it would probably taste quite nice."Not true at all. We just roasted a turkey yesterday as is. Basted it in its own juices. I never use salt and pepper. Don't even have salt and pepper shakers in my house. These PETA folks can eat all the chairs they want. I'm sticking with meat.
And what's the deal with dissecting the frogs. Aren't they already dead by the time they get to the schools? How can a dead frog feel any pain?
To: Reaganwuzthebest
CUT CHEESE!-- PETM --
People for the Ethical Treatment of Moose
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posted on
10/21/2002 5:30:03 PM PDT
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uglybiker
To: Reaganwuzthebest
Hey! Salon is .04 cents per share. Better buy some before they go BK all the way!
BK?!?!? I want a burger!
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posted on
10/21/2002 5:33:36 PM PDT
by
steveo
To: SamAdams76
And what's the deal with dissecting the frogs. Aren't they already dead by the time they get to the schools? How can a dead frog feel any pain? Never heard of these people when I was in high school, back then it was frogs, cats, birds. They probably would have wanted to shut the school down.
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To: uglybiker
PETP
People for the Ethical Treatment of PETA Members
Anytime a PETA member needs surgery he needs to be given a piece of celery and told that he couldn't possibly be operated on because there is no one availible that understands anatomy, in biology class everyone skipped.
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10/21/2002 5:42:34 PM PDT
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TheHound
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To: Motherbear
Frogs should be eaten, not dissected! Don't know what they taste like, never had them. I've been told though it's sorta like chicken.
To: Reaganwuzthebest
we dissected baby pigs in my high school, my kids recently disected owl pellets, which is something owls puke up that contains the skeletons of small animals they've eaten.
How does PETA feel about animals eating one another? How will they get animals in the wild to treat each other ethically? Special training? A vegetarian diet for my dog?
To: mostlyundecided
A vegetarian diet for my dog?
I have heard them suggest that...
To: mostlyundecided
A vegetarian diet for my dog? Some of these groups are strange. I've actually heard of some who think vegetables feel pain when they're uprooted and eaten. If it were up to them, we'd be drinking water for our dinner. No wait, there's bacteria in it, we wouldn't want to hurt it.
To: Reaganwuzthebest
Never dissected a frog. However...
For decades in Junior High, every seventh-grade science-class (two teachers taught three class apiece each day) had one lab, where each class was split into two-student teams and dissected a mink. On "mink day", as it was referred to, about ninety minks were dissected.
Come to think of it, that's probably a lot of wasted meat. But at least the pelts were used for mink coats and mink stoles.
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10/21/2002 7:03:16 PM PDT
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Zon
To: Reaganwuzthebest
PETA. The other white meat.
To: Reaganwuzthebest
I didn't want to dissect a frog or a fetal pig, so I was given an alternate project. All one has to do is ask. How'd I do in the class? 4.0... :)
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10/21/2002 7:10:56 PM PDT
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rintense
To: rintense
Actually I took biology in college and anyone who didn't want to dissect a frog in lab was given the option not to. Nothing wrong with that if that's what someone prefers.
To: Reaganwuzthebest
I just couldn't do it. I grew up catching frogs and never harmed them. I was only 13 at the time and it completely made me sick to my stomach. Not to mention the fact that the science teacher put the bag of fetal pigs on my desk. Bastard.
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posted on
10/21/2002 7:22:01 PM PDT
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rintense
To: rintense
Not to mention the fact that the science teacher put the bag of fetal pigs on my desk. He sounds like a teacher I might have had once or twice.
To: Zon
On "mink day", as it was referred to, about ninety minks were dissected. Considering this group compares mink farmers to nazis, they would probably have a heart attack if they knew about this, that is if it's still going on.
To: rintense
Somehow I knew you were a good student! My kids have already told me they have no desire to dissect even a preserved animal because it would hurt their tender hearts to do it. This might be a problem because one of them says they want to be a vet and the other a marine biologist. LOL! Maybe they'll change their minds by the time that biology class rolls around. As a child, I wanted to be a vet, too, until I learned you sometimes had to put animals to sleep and operate on them after car accidents. That did it for me! :)
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10/21/2002 7:44:02 PM PDT
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lsee
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