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for all of you in vancouver, considering that you still read these posts or even care to be involved now that the protest energy has diffused, there is once again a meet at the parks board in support of no whales in captivity...this has very much to do with the dolphins too...unfortunately falls on ol hallow's eve...
here's a letter from erica, also check out the rather nasty, sarcastically strained and rather stupid province article below it...
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Hope to see you all there!
Erika
WANT A SCARY HALLOWEEN?
Come to a Halloween Park Board meeting
and show your support for a
WHALE REFERENDUM IN 2005
- it's too late in 2008!
WHEN: Monday, October 31, 2005 at 7:00 pm
WHERE: Park Board Offices on 2099 Beach Ave.
DIRECTIONS: Drive into Stanley Park by English Bay
and you will see the brown building (Park Board) on your right.
Turn right and park on the other side of the building.
Pay parking continues down the road across from the tennis courts.
SPEAKERS NEEDED!!!
PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME TO THIS PARK BOARD MEETING
TO TELL THE ELECTED PARK COMMISSIONERS IN PERSON THAT YOU EXPECT THEM
TO APPROVE HOLDING A WHALE REFERENDUM DURING THE UPCOMING NOV.19
VANCOUVER CIVIC ELECTIONS, NOT IN THE ELECTIONS OF 2008! IT'S TOO LATE IN 2008!
HALLOWEEN SPOOKIEST QUESTION: HOW MANY MORE WHALES AND DOLPHINS
WILL THE AQUARIUM BRING INTO STANLEY PARK IN THE NEXT 3 YEARS???
IF YOU CAN'T COME TO THE HALLOWEEN MEETING,
PLEASE WRITE A LETTER !!!
PARK BOARD COMMISSIONERS
Alan DeGenova adegenova@sutton.com
Anita Romaniuk aromaniuk@ca.inter.net
Eva Riccius riccius@sfu.ca
Heather Deal heather_deal@telus.net
Lyndsay Poaps lyndsayp@telus.net
Suzanne Anton suzanne@suzanneanton.ca
Loretta Woodcock lorettaisalways@shaw.ca
PROPOSED REFERENDUM QUESTION:
"Are you in favour of phasing out whale and dolphin exhibits in Stanley Park?"
FOR MORE INFORMATION
or if you want to speak at the Park Board meeting:
COALITION FOR NO WHALES IN CAPTIVITY
(604) 736-9514 cfnwic@whaleprotection.org
----- check out this letter
Please send a letter to the editor!!!!
provletters@png.canwest.com
Thanks!
Annelise Sorg
COALITION FOR NO WHALES IN CAPTIVITY
cfnwic@whaleprotection.org
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Activist ire over aquarium animals is extremely difficult to fathom
Alan Ferguson
The Province
Friday, October 21, 2005
Except that it would be unfair to the humbler creatures, I have often wondered whether the best thing to do with animal-rights "activists" would be to lock them in the pound along with other strays.
An obvious drawback lies in their sheer numbers -- there would be so many volunteers lining up to liberate them that they'd be free again long before the time limit expired for putting them out of their final misery.
It ought to be hard not to admire the devotion to their cause that motivates the earnest efforts of the activists.
Clearly, they are not all nutbars, although their ranks include such people as Rocco DiSpirito, the stupendously boring New York "celebrity" chef who is part of a campaign to end the East Coast seal hunt.
This is the same giggling fool who condones the cruel and unusual torture of geese to produce the inedible foie gras that tickles the palates of the rich and stupid.
One wonders in passing just how many of these avid advocates of live animals sit down at suppertime to fill their faces with dead ones.
Not that being a vegetarian should be a mandatory qualification for defending the beasts of the field, but it might help to give a proper sense of direction to the movement.
Everyone knows that horrible things go on in the production of our food, even though by the time it gets to our plates the blood and gore has been cleaned up.
I once toured a slaughterhouse where semi-stunned pigs squealed in terror as they were hauled on a hook to where a blood-soaked butcher waited to slash their throats. I've not eaten bacon since.
So, I am not saying there isn't fertile ground for animal- lovers to till. All I ask is that they keep things in a proper perspective.
A case in point is the current controversy brewing over the keeping of whales and dolphins at the splendid Vancouver Aquarium.
Loretta Woodcock, a Vancouver parks board commissioner, is agitating for a plebiscite in 2008 to decide whether the aquarium should cease to display these animals.
Other "activists" are more impatient, demanding that the question should be tacked on to the municipal vote this November. Their ire is fuelled by the recent addition of two rescued dolphins to the aquarium's stable.
The activists claim (though by what rare power of divination I am at a loss to comprehend) that the animals are unhappy.
The pair of sea otters I saw recently, lying hand-in-hand on their backs, basking in the sunshine, were a picture of contentment. Would they thank me for returning them to the wild to face a certain, nasty death?
With more than 19,000 members, the popularity of the aquarium is at a peak. Almost eight out of 10 Vancouverites want the whales to stay.
The thousands of children who go there to wonder at these marvels of nature will learn more from them than they ever will from the prattling of preachy busybodies.
aferguson@png.canwest.com
© The Vancouver Province 2005
here's a letter from erica, also check out the rather nasty, sarcastically strained and rather stupid province article below it...
--------------
Hope to see you all there!
Erika
WANT A SCARY HALLOWEEN?
Come to a Halloween Park Board meeting
and show your support for a
WHALE REFERENDUM IN 2005
- it's too late in 2008!
WHEN: Monday, October 31, 2005 at 7:00 pm
WHERE: Park Board Offices on 2099 Beach Ave.
DIRECTIONS: Drive into Stanley Park by English Bay
and you will see the brown building (Park Board) on your right.
Turn right and park on the other side of the building.
Pay parking continues down the road across from the tennis courts.
SPEAKERS NEEDED!!!
PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME TO THIS PARK BOARD MEETING
TO TELL THE ELECTED PARK COMMISSIONERS IN PERSON THAT YOU EXPECT THEM
TO APPROVE HOLDING A WHALE REFERENDUM DURING THE UPCOMING NOV.19
VANCOUVER CIVIC ELECTIONS, NOT IN THE ELECTIONS OF 2008! IT'S TOO LATE IN 2008!
HALLOWEEN SPOOKIEST QUESTION: HOW MANY MORE WHALES AND DOLPHINS
WILL THE AQUARIUM BRING INTO STANLEY PARK IN THE NEXT 3 YEARS???
IF YOU CAN'T COME TO THE HALLOWEEN MEETING,
PLEASE WRITE A LETTER !!!
PARK BOARD COMMISSIONERS
Alan DeGenova adegenova@sutton.com
Anita Romaniuk aromaniuk@ca.inter.net
Eva Riccius riccius@sfu.ca
Heather Deal heather_deal@telus.net
Lyndsay Poaps lyndsayp@telus.net
Suzanne Anton suzanne@suzanneanton.ca
Loretta Woodcock lorettaisalways@shaw.ca
PROPOSED REFERENDUM QUESTION:
"Are you in favour of phasing out whale and dolphin exhibits in Stanley Park?"
FOR MORE INFORMATION
or if you want to speak at the Park Board meeting:
COALITION FOR NO WHALES IN CAPTIVITY
(604) 736-9514 cfnwic@whaleprotection.org
----- check out this letter
Please send a letter to the editor!!!!
provletters@png.canwest.com
Thanks!
Annelise Sorg
COALITION FOR NO WHALES IN CAPTIVITY
cfnwic@whaleprotection.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Activist ire over aquarium animals is extremely difficult to fathom
Alan Ferguson
The Province
Friday, October 21, 2005
Except that it would be unfair to the humbler creatures, I have often wondered whether the best thing to do with animal-rights "activists" would be to lock them in the pound along with other strays.
An obvious drawback lies in their sheer numbers -- there would be so many volunteers lining up to liberate them that they'd be free again long before the time limit expired for putting them out of their final misery.
It ought to be hard not to admire the devotion to their cause that motivates the earnest efforts of the activists.
Clearly, they are not all nutbars, although their ranks include such people as Rocco DiSpirito, the stupendously boring New York "celebrity" chef who is part of a campaign to end the East Coast seal hunt.
This is the same giggling fool who condones the cruel and unusual torture of geese to produce the inedible foie gras that tickles the palates of the rich and stupid.
One wonders in passing just how many of these avid advocates of live animals sit down at suppertime to fill their faces with dead ones.
Not that being a vegetarian should be a mandatory qualification for defending the beasts of the field, but it might help to give a proper sense of direction to the movement.
Everyone knows that horrible things go on in the production of our food, even though by the time it gets to our plates the blood and gore has been cleaned up.
I once toured a slaughterhouse where semi-stunned pigs squealed in terror as they were hauled on a hook to where a blood-soaked butcher waited to slash their throats. I've not eaten bacon since.
So, I am not saying there isn't fertile ground for animal- lovers to till. All I ask is that they keep things in a proper perspective.
A case in point is the current controversy brewing over the keeping of whales and dolphins at the splendid Vancouver Aquarium.
Loretta Woodcock, a Vancouver parks board commissioner, is agitating for a plebiscite in 2008 to decide whether the aquarium should cease to display these animals.
Other "activists" are more impatient, demanding that the question should be tacked on to the municipal vote this November. Their ire is fuelled by the recent addition of two rescued dolphins to the aquarium's stable.
The activists claim (though by what rare power of divination I am at a loss to comprehend) that the animals are unhappy.
The pair of sea otters I saw recently, lying hand-in-hand on their backs, basking in the sunshine, were a picture of contentment. Would they thank me for returning them to the wild to face a certain, nasty death?
With more than 19,000 members, the popularity of the aquarium is at a peak. Almost eight out of 10 Vancouverites want the whales to stay.
The thousands of children who go there to wonder at these marvels of nature will learn more from them than they ever will from the prattling of preachy busybodies.
aferguson@png.canwest.com
© The Vancouver Province 2005
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