my boyfriend brought up an interesting point on this last night, one that I don't believe any of us have thought about (i know i didn't). It is this:
We are quick to point fingers and degrade what other countries do to animals, yet within our own countries we are doing things to animals just as bad if not worse to animals(ie slaughter houses, research labs).
Now here's an example:
He told me that in Europe (I dont remember what country it was), there is a dish called 'Pati'(i dont believe I have spelled it right, but it is made out of goose liver). What they do is take a goose, put a funnel in is mouth, and shove food down its throat until it is stuffed. They wait awhile, then they shove more food down its throat.(the goose is alive during all this) They keep doing this until the goose's liver swells, then they kill the goose and take out the liver and make it into the 'Pati'.
Now that example is somewhat 'tamer' then what happened to the sea turtle, but it proves the point. We do just as bad things to animals within our own countries.
[ May 13, 2001: Message edited by: Dragadon ]
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