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E-PrinceDefying February’s climatic dictates, students lay in the newly fallen snow on the Frist Campus Center’s North Front Lawn on Friday afternoon, feigning death, wearing coats covered with fake blood and sporting signs that read, “What if you ...(back to the article)
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Of course, PAWS and PETA will never inform anyone that beaver cause millions of dollars in property damage around the country every year, as do coyotes and raccoons. ("Not my problem.") And that these animals need to have their populations controlled to reduce this damage. It's far better to put their fur to good use than to waste a perfectly good product. The Dutch kill 400,000 muskrats every year to protect their water control dikes. What do they do with them? They are thrown in the mud. It's much smarter to make good use of a perfectly functional natural product--fur. Students and others should enjoy their fur trimmed coats and boots knowing that they are contributing to sound wildlife management practices and good conservation.
I'd like to know what sheep overpopulation crises are plaguing humanity. What species' overpopulation is plaguing the world the most? Humans. Ecology regulates population--people need nothing to do with that. Animals should not die torturous deaths to preserve our excesses. This property that they are destroying is just a part of the world that we all should be sharing anyway. We are not owners of the world; it was not made for us. We live in it, just as wild animals do.
a friend of mine saw the display and thought it was about the homeless. apparently PAWS' message wasn't quite as clear as they may have wished.
Great job, PAWS! I saw the demonstration, and it definitely got people talking!
www.petakillsanimals.com
Uggs, the pinnacle of conformity (to a cruel consumerist culture). Delicious, really. And they're definitely not Ugg-ly! PETA might advocate the humane killing of animals (and as an ethical vegan, I cannot but shudder at what PETA claims to do in the name of animal welfare), but PAWS is hardly PETA. PAWS isn't killing animals.
Umm...aren't Uggs made in Austraila from Australian sheepskin?
How does that at all relate to "overpopulation" of beavers in the United States, and make it okay to wear these types of boots?
In the meantime, if you're legitimately concerned about animal "overpopulation", since it wouldn't be that easy to control beaver population, how about being an advocate for spaying and neutering dogs and cats, as many of their offspring cannot find room in good homes.
Fur is warm. And over half of Princeton kids are on financial aid. Get off your ethical high horse.
R, how'd you and your friends get into this school? I thought basic literacy was a requirement--anyone who walked past and is capable of reading ought to have understood "Sheep can't live without their skin. You can live without your Uggs." Perhaps "What if you were killed for your coat?" was ambiguous--but the "Fur 'trim' kills too" ought to have clarified things in your gray matter--unless, of course, you and your friend thought fur trim was killing the homeless.
Thank you for disproving intelligent design.
I know for a fact that some of these sheep that were turned into uggs scored higher on their sats than the 10 freshman who think there will be no beer at cannon