See you made MY point again. HOW could sea turtles have all the time in the world to adapt to plastic, when plastic hasn't been around since their inception as a species? They can't, it's not possible. =) This ties into what I meant by if modern man was around since sea turtles at the same point in time, perhaps things would be different.
You said it. That's why I'm a darn bleeding heart liberal. ;P
Oh, I've not written that introducing plastic would increase the rate of evolution. What I am saying is sea turtles (as an example) have had millions of years to evolve, but of all the various selection pressures they have had to adapt to, not one of those was man-made until man arrived. So how could they possibly adapt now after all this time of evolving without plastic as an example. The same can be said for light pollution for the sea turtle hatchlings. They use a few natural cues, one is light, to guide them to the ocean. But we know that hatchlings which emerge from the sand near bright lights use the bright lights as a cute and navigate away from the ocean and of course die. They didn't develop over millions of years with both man-made lights and natural light, and developed a mechanism to determine which is natural light leading them to water, and which is mad-made light leading them to certain death. But maybe if "all of a sudden" sea turtles had initially evolved in the presence of man of millions of years, they MIGHT have determined a mechanism to determine which light was natural, and which was mad-made. That's all I'm saying. =)
The world is run by money, that's the only reason, you are correct. It's easier and cheaper to pollute the incredibly scarce amount of fresh drinking water, than it is to follow the law, and implement and develop methods to prevent it. If man's lifespan was LONG, like hundreds or thousands of years (like trees) I think things would be quite different on this issue.
I was using sea turtles as example a few posts back that's all..no special reason.
No need to pick on Hot Dogs. They are full of connective tissues, ligaments and all kinds of amino rich tissues that help make up part of the "whole prey" diet we largely ignore :sarcasm:
Thats just like you, coming in here with your "facts" and "science".
Yeay! Full circle! ~I believe I can fly~.
;P:fury::unsure:;P:barf::clap:;P:};PYou paint a purty picture. Ive seen this on documentaries and would want to see it in person. Might re-sensitize me. I certainly dont agree with how animals are treated and with all the **** we add to our "food". But at the same time Im a rational guy and am perched comfortably on the fence.
Hmmm, if you have a low sperm count, maybe you have a personal vendetta against those of us that can have kids? j/k
While I try to decipher your paragraph let me just say that I'm not a phobe of any sort. Well, kids do scare me. But not gay men or women or the people in between. My first thought was "Well, gay men wouldn't need to be neutered" but then I thought of the black market price for sperm if we did start neutering and it wouldn't matter if you were gay. Just get that in a cup, syringe and bammo. Payment up front, meet me here next Friday and you'll get the rest when a baby pops out.njnolan1, I don't know if you noticed that you slid on over to the far far right there. IE, the guvermint's opposition to LGBT marriages and a certain religion's vehement hatred of same. As George Carlin pointed out, what group of people are less likely to produce offspring, pollute the gene pool and load up the welfare roles with random progeny? That religion's opposition to LGBT marriages is truly extremely fantastically bizarre in that -those people- don't use or need birth control and don't have abortions. Their favorite two pet rants.
So before we are forced to label you a somethingphobe, we will accept your abject apologies by your crawling 9 miles on your hands and knees to throw rocks at the popes poop. Thanking you in advance.
PS "You aren't going to outweird me. I find stranger things than you in my breakfast cereal." -Z. B.-, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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What we need is an mandatory olfactory channel on home entertainment systems. Let people smell the leaking bile and blood of gunshot wounds, the mix of feces, meats, sanitizing agents and concentrated flavoring chemicals. The fantastic smell of 'crispy critters', people who have managed to become incinerated and the seared flesh odor combines with the melted plastic in their clothing. The galactic rainbow of odors of various mixtures of barf people spew as rescuers work on them. And let's not forget the subtle differences in odors of animals turned inside out. Untrivialize all the maiming and agony just a bit and bring it home to peoples brains through their sinus. And more than likely the people will add some odor of their own as they leave their dinners on the living room carpet.
I promise you, no vendetta lol. My wife can't afford something so we have had to explore other options. Other options that personally affect me. Personally... oh so personally. I equate it to eating with a nice coating of vasoline in your mouth. I only know there's food because of the texture, but still there's no flavor.You paint a purty picture. Ive seen this on documentaries and would want to see it in person. Might re-sensitize me. I certainly dont agree with how animals are treated and with all the **** we add to our "food". But at the same time Im a rational guy and am perched comfortably on the fence.
Hmmm, if you have a low sperm count, maybe you have a personal vendetta against those of us that can have kids? j/k
In all seriousness my wife and I are mostly on the same point with this stuff, although she is definitely the "glass half-full" one. We plan on having only one child.
But this is the PETA thread, and in dedication to President Newkirk, your going to have to neuter those gay men yourself
My ex's 3 year old half sister smiled beguilingly as her dad took a bite of the sandwich. Unable to reach the jams and jellys, she sensibly substituted vaseline in the first PB&J... PB&V? she had ever made. She waited for the compliments. The recognition.
LOL, very, very funny story.
My Boss is a Avid Hunter. He goes to Africa as well as to all different countries. He goes when they have to many animals and they need to do an animal control. The Animals he does hunt he has the native villagers skin them and then my boss will donate all the meat to the villages. Could you imagine how much meat is donated when you have 6 or more hunters and each hunter has like 8 or more tags to hunt. He can ask for money it wont be a lot but he can but he doesn't he "gives" it to them. He can also keep the meat and have it sent back home, but he doesn't. He keeps the skins so he can bring the skins home and have the taxidermist make his animal trophies. I was against this at one time but when I found out the background to it all It made me feel good to know he just didn't shoot for the thrill but also to help the surrounding villages in feeding them because he can go other places and hunt for only the kill as well. In the pictures he brings home to show us you can see how much the villagers appreciate him and his son so much. So Good does come out of hunting
Tell your boss to take all the money he spends, plane fares included, and donate it to something worthwhile like Doctors Without Borders or any of dozens of aid operations. Probably deliver a thousand pounds of food and medications for every pound of meat his phallic fetish gives a few villagers. It's a complete joke to think imported hunters can do the animal control job the local people can't. The fact is a number of countries forbid the locals from hunting so they can attract safari tourists and stuff money in authority pockets.
You and your wife do know that Obamacare and all private insurers are now legally obligated to provide women's preventative care, including contraceptives, with no co-pay, right??? Look into that!