What a waste of wool potential

*LOL* The picture is interesting, but your caption makes it hilarious. Thanks for the laugh this morning!

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 17:59:22 +0100, "Mariann" spewed forth :

It's...a sheep. I feel more for the herder whose sheep it was: loss of wool, loss of meat on the hoof - loss of two or three meats on the hoof since the ewe was pregnant.

PETA = people eating tasty animals

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On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 20:26:48 +0100, "Mariann" spewed forth :

I grew up in farm country. Livestock is livestock is livestock. Not every creature on this earth is a warmfuzzypetpetlappylappy item and more of us would benefit from remembering that, methinks. My attitude toward LIVESTOCK has not much to do with my general personality. It behooves (get it? behooves? harhar!) a farmer to treat his livestock well because it represents material wealth.

Most of the rest of the world views Americans as a bit tetched in the head because of the general "awww, isn't it cute, we musn't eat that!" attitude toward animals that seems to have cropped up since the move away from farm life to Life in the Big City. Hell, if Americans spent half of what we spend on our pets to solve the hunger problem in this country everybody would go to bed with a full belly every night and we wouldn't need government-subsidized breakfast and lunch programs in public schools.

I know where my food comes from and I have no problem with it. I'll wring it's neck myself if it happens to be a fowl (foul fowl, come hither!) but I do need help with larger items like ... sheep ... cattle ... hogs...

Damn, now I want to find somebody to sell me a weanling calf so I can have some dry-aged beef that isn't terribly tough or grassy.

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I also grew up on a farm and everyone I know always treated all the animals with love and respect ...I can't for the life of me imagine anyone thinking a snake eating a pregnant sheep as entertaining ...You sound to me like a "right wanker" if you pardon the expression and surely not representative of good old USA ....

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:04:18 +0100, "Mariann" spewed forth : .

Nah, I'd be a "cast iron bitch" thanks. Everything has to eat. The snake got a meal, the herder lost two or three of his livestock. Ya wins some, ya loses some, and yet the world hasn't stopped turning because some of us are morbidly amused by a photo of something that happened half a world away.

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Some of us manage to live without eating anybody tho ....

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 20:26:48 +0100, Mariann spun a fine yarn

Our Wooly *IS* a wonderful person..... While I didn't find the photo entertaining, I DID find JJ's caption (here) wildly funny. I assume you're an acrylic maeven rather than a yarn-snob? Noreen who also spent a LOT of time on the farm.

Honey, I did say "black humor". You were warned.

JJMolvik

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:05:52 -0700, JJMolvik spun a fine yarn

nod nod nod. Looks like she didn't read *that*... YES, she/we/all/ were warned, grin! :D Noreen

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And you sound like someone who would love Dubya, and that's not necessarily representative of the good old USA. Kindly remember not all of us on this group are living in the good old USA, and some of us probably don't give a damn about what you think represents the USA. You will never convince her, and she will never convince you ... give it up already.

Wooly doesn't eat people - she eats livestock. So do I and probably a lot of other people on this group. If you want to keep arguing with Wooly, please take it private. Thank you.

Shelagh

Now now Noreen - I use acrylic upon occasion...... but I'm also a yarn snob. (snicker)

Shelagh

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:27:11 +0100, "Mariann" spewed forth :

And the vegetarians with whom I regularly rub elbows manage to be vegetarians without the holier-than-thou attitude you seem to have. I should also mention most of them lack a basic understanding of the protein requirements of the human body and look sickly and frail because they can't manage to get a full complement of amino acids into their system eating only plant products. But that's not germane to a discussion of a snake (carnivore) eating a sheep (meat animal).

I don't eat people, I eat animals. More correctly, I eat parts of animals. The parts I don't eat get turned into cat and dog food, which I feed to my pets.

If push ever comes to shove I'll butcher and cook my cats before I permit my family *or* the cats to starve. Same for the 12" oscar fish in my 200-gallon aquarium: protein on the fin and I won't hesitate to eat them if it becomes necessary. I'll drink aquarium water if the city water supply is ever compromised because I know what's in my tank.

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On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 19:28:26 -0500, Shillelagh spun a fine yarn

;) Shelagh, I use acrylic's occasionally too, but I was insinuating that *she* *only* uses them... Grin and snicker back ;) Noreen

Indeed, a waste! I am amazed that the python managed to swallow it. I have read that they dislocate their jaws to swallow. Yuck!

Higs, Katherine

Black it certainly is ... Humour ? No.

The story about the python eating the sheep was in our papers too. It also reported that in recent times a python had eaten an 8 year old boy:(

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 07:29:05 -0700, "JJMolvik" spewed forth :

My husband suggested last night that perhaps wool will be a byproduct in much the same way coffee beans are a byproduct of the civet cat's diet. I was just about to drop when he came up with this and I chuckled myself to sleep...

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