Butterfly regs

[Stan Gorodenski]

I just noticed that Patrick's anti-shipping reason 3 and reason 4 are
actually two reasons each.  

It is now 6-6.

Stan

Mark Walker wrote:
> 
> Patrick wrote a list of pros and cons concerning butterfly releases.  In all
> fairness to Judy, Patrick could have amended his list thus:
> 
> >
> Pro-shipping
>  1) A lot of people on the list have a financial interest in
>  interstate shipping
>  (good luck to them).
>  2) Why can't we just do what we feel like without government
>  regulation
>  (Everyone wishes for this).
>  3) There is no record of disaster caused by shipping.
>  4) "Butterfly breeding is less destructive and less
>  likely to produce they type of genetic alteration that causes animals to
>  require human assistance for their survival than most domestications"
>  5) "Butterfly farming for release (and, dare I say, collecting) are the
>  only commercial human uses of animals I can think of which result in a
>  benefit to the animal"
>  6) "many children have learned about the importance of conserving the
> habitat of all
>  creatures with their Monarch ambassador leading the way
> 
> The vote would thus have gone 6-4.
> 
> Just a thought };>)
> 
> Mark Walker.
> 
> >
> 
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