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Insects have rights too - insect Rights Activists (IRA)
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Posted By:
LaMa
in Europe
Jul 05, 2005
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Insect Rights Activists (IRA)
"Join us in our fight to stamp out the senseless slaughter of billions of helpless insects across the world. Our grassroots campaign is rapidly growing but we still need your help to spread the word that bugs are living, feeling creatures too. Imagine the horror of these small beings as they are choking their last breath, clutching their young to their breasts as uncaring humans thoughtlessly spray toxic chemicals."
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Guess Who
in Fort Knox
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 08:50 PM
I knew a ardent animal rights campaigner who regular picketed the animal house at my University. Inside the animal house an eminent professor was vivisecting hamsters, carefully operating on their skulls to reveal their cochlear, working out how to tap penetrate the inner ear without damaging its ability to perceive sound, wiring up the animals' auditory nerves. Gruesome stuff.
The work had pioneered the introduction of cochlear implants for the deaf.
Like the one in my campaigning friend.
Hmmm. |
DFStuckey
in Auckland New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 | 12:19 AM
reti, I will go you one better than that; During my mispent youth earning a bachelors degree in biology and attempting a masterate in same, I settled upon an experiment in size dominance among certain animals using a simple humane design involving caged populations, observations and weighings of the test specimens. I was chosen at random by the Univeristy Ethics committee, which by law was and still is made up of people with NO science background whatsoever ( Basically, Literature, humanities, and economics faculty members earning a quick buck, er, monthly stipend ) who gave me a three-quarter hour rundown on the ethics guidelines of the treatment of animals - Including the law based on British precedent, that all experimental animals MUST be euthanised after any experiment even if not physically changed to "prevent long-term psychological suffering from being involved in the procedure".
Then at the endm, they asked what animals I would be studying.
Cockroaches, I replied.
Next came a half-hour lecture about how scientists always waste the time of decent people like themselves with our pointless experiments, and that the Ethics Committee wouldn't have cared if I pounded the damn bugs with hammers. |
DFStuckey
in Auckland New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 | 12:22 AM
Guess Who, many of the aurally unovercompensated ( Newspaek for deaf) consider cochlear implants to be identical with the proceedings at Auschwitz: The destruction of a rich culture by technological means. So maybe there was some point to your acquaintance's protest; Though I admit it looks very hypocritical. |
Snowy
in aeternum
Member
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 | 12:05 PM
Oh, Dear.
It seems that I have begun an epidemic of off-topicness. If we're not more careful, Maegan will be down on our heads like the proverbial ton of rectangular building things. |
reti
in Virginia
Member
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 | 02:24 PM
DFS -- very believable, while being hard to believe. I especially like that they would spend a goodly amount of time telling you that you were taking up too much of their time.
I fall into the same sort of trap. For the last several years I've usually had a roach colony or two, currently I have Blaptica dubia. I recently found some german roaches (Blattella germanica) in the colony. I was, and am still, horrified! How could these nasty roaches have gotten in with my, uhm, nice roaches? |
DFStuckey
in Auckland New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 | 11:06 PM
reti, the truth is often the hardest thing to believe; As someone once said "Fiction is under the constraint of having to be credible, while life is not."
And what is wrong with Blattela germanica? I found them charming creatures and perfectly fine test subjects, with a fresh woody scent to their body wax. Mind you, you needed two signatures and a guard to get some from the breeding cages at my alma mater, compared to only verbal permission for cyanide at the biochem labs, so some people share your view. |
DFStuckey
in Auckland New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 | 11:10 PM
A Synchronicity here: I just bought a collectors edition of ANALOG magazine from the 1970s during the arguments in both fact and fiction articles about the morality of killing disease organisms, and whether advanced alien cultures might avoid us until we are 'enlightened' enough to grant germs civil rights.
And here we are today, joking about insect rights while protests go on against rendering Smallpox extinct. |
French Canadian
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 02:09 AM
If you want to know my precious opinion, i say smash thoses insects with tha boot and exterminate them like in starship troopers. 14/88. |
French Canadian
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 02:12 AM
Heil Insecticide ! |
Winona
in USA
Member
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 10:56 AM
re: French Canadians 14/88...
4/30/45, 9mm. The better final solution.  |
Winona
in USA
Member
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 10:59 AM
oops, 9mm, should have been 7.65mm. Much better. |
Snowy
in aeternum
Member
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 12:05 PM
Oh, Lard
Well, our friend FC has shown up, and life will shortly be heading down the drain.
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Rita
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 12:21 PM
Hm, well I don't know about taking it that far, but I try not to kill bugs. For instance, if there's a bug in my house, I'll take it out in a cup instead of squishing it, even if it's creepy looking.
If it's on me, that's a different story, though. I reflexively swat. I'm so ashamed! *Hangs head* :( |
Rochelle
Member
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 01:56 PM
Snowy--Was that supposed to be an insect pun? Like flushing a spider down the drain? Probably not, but I took it that way. lol |
Abashed
Member
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 11:08 PM
I never post, but I felt that I needed to post this:
A bug just landed on my monitor ONTOP of the topic link and I smacked him down with a righteous palm. Then... I read the link. My immediate thought was "He was trying to tell me something and now I'm never going to know what it was"
Damn him!
-Abashed |
Citizen Premier
in spite of public outcry
Member
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 | 05:06 PM
The only real threat to insect populations is the introduction of foreign species, and possibly genetically engineered crops. It's sad to see a species of insect disappear, but I don't think humans can do more than dent their biodiversity.
And as I remember, scientists have recently discovered the evolution of a new mosquito species that lives in underground railways and feeds on rat blood; and it only took it about 100 years to evolve. Somehow I think that even if we destroy thousands of species, the same diversity will reappear a few millenia after we cease our damage (or our existence). |
sanjay
in la
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 | 10:32 AM
There are quite a number of mosquito control systems, all of them effective; with so many types at your disposal; it is often confusing, to say the least, in finding the right one,specific to your needs. Find out more about mosquito control at goodbye mosquitoes. |
sanjay
in la
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 | 10:44 AM
mosquito control |
oyunlar
in york
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 | 01:46 PM
I once knew a woman who'd done her masters work on some variety of fruit fly behaviour. She told me that when she went to the school's lab building there were often animal right's protestors. As she approached the building, they would approach her. When she told them she worked with fruit flies they would let her pass without harassing her. |
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