Originally from: brentns
                        

Subject: Re: [farmtalking] Italy out to end the corgi menace
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:41:42 +0100

So that does that mean all of those breeds will have to be destroyed then?

Coleen

Hi Coleen,

Well it doesn't quite say that yet.. but it's another step in a direction .. with which i think all of us are probably quite familiar by now..

All the Best
brent

CAPS Grieves Deaths of Ecologist and Author Garrett Hardin and
His Wife, Population Activist Jane Hardin http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=138–09192003

Wayne Pacelle, Senior Vice-President, formerly of Friends for Animals “We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding. ... One generation and out. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.” (Quoted in Animal People, May, 1993) http://www.furcommission.com/debate/words2.htm

Believers in animal rights want domestic breeds of animal, including livestock and pets, to be eliminated, while those animals already "enslaved" should be "liberated" from human domination. Wildlife, meanwhile, should not be managed by humans, even if this means overpopulation, habitat damage, and massive die-offs from starvation and disease. http://www.furcommission.com/debate/ownwords.htm

"I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's specieist language. I prefer 'companion animal.' For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding ... as the surplus of cats and dogs declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship – enjoyment at a distance."
(In "Just Like Us? Toward a Notion of Animal Rights", Harper's Magazine, August 1988)
"In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether."
(Newsday, Feb. 21, 1988)
http://www.furcommission.com/debate/words1.htm