Butterfly regs

[Stan Gorodenski]

Addendum:
I just noticed that reasons 4 and 5 under 'Pro-shipping' are actually
only different ways of saying the same thing.

It is now 6-5 in favor of anti-shipping.

Stan

Stan Gorodenski wrote:
> 
> 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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