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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Having just been disturbed by a photo of a murdered deer on FB, my thoughts on all culling/killing unnecessarily:</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="dati1w0a ecm0bbzt e5nlhep0 hv4rvrfc" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_44a" style="padding: 4px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 ew0dbk1b cbu4d94t irj2b8pg" style="flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px; display: flex;"><div class="knvmm38d qzhwtbm6" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span class="oo9gr5id c1et5uql d9wwppkn qv66sw1b mau55g9w aigsh9s9 iv3no6db fe6kdd0r nxhoafnm hpfvmrgz c8b282yb hzawbc8m jq4qci2q ik7dh3pa a8c37x1j fgxwclzu keod5gw0 oi732d6d a3bd9o3v d2edcug0 knj5qynh" dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.3333; display: block; overflow-wrap: break-word; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;"><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab c1et5uql ii04i59q kvgmc6g5 hcukyx3x" style="font-family: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">"Culling," a nice word used to describe killing. Killing animals for sport. At one time "man" was required to kill animals to survive as were our ancestors. Now we raise them on factory farms for slaughter, hardly an improvement for the animals or planet. </font></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="font-family: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Hunters killing for sport claiming to be culling due to over population is repugnant, as there is nothing sporting about tracking down and shooting a wild animal totally unsuspecting, unarmed, helpless, etc. If they are a endangered species its especially repugnant. </font></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="font-family: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Does anyone really think the shooting of AfroAmericans by police with impunity is little more than a form of culling? Culling/killing those our ruling elites fear may form a substantial opposition to their crimes, is culling a means of eliminating those we view as dispensable given we have no jobs for them?</font></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="font-family: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">If you think, because you happen to be white you are exempt, surely you now see you’re not. If you’re poor, or working class, have debt, you’re vulnerable. Just as the assumption the Covid is only killing the the elderly, no one is safe. There is the insidious targeting of the disabled, young, and vulnerable, always taking place.</font></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""> There are many means of disposing of those for whom we no longer have a use, lack of healthcare, affordable housing, high cost of education, lack of jobs, low wages. Laws against panhandling, feeding the poor, living in cars, are increasing across the US.</font></div><div dir="auto" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(240, 242, 245);" class=""><font color="#050505" class="">We’ve been culling people in the Middle east, Asia and Africa, for their resources with our bombs, for decades if not centuries, making us immune to the murder of millions of Muslims killed just since 9/11. African migrants during that same time frame, all labeled by nationality, such as Iraqi<font face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, .SFNSText-Regular, sans-serif" class="">’s, </font>Libyans, Syrians, Yemeni’s etc., viewed as lesser importance than Americans.</font></span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(240, 242, 245);" class=""><font color="#050505" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(240, 242, 245);" class=""><font color="#050505" class="">As it begins, so too will it end.</font></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div> K.Aram<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 6, 2020, at 10:49, Niloofar Shambayati <<a href="mailto:niloofar.peace@gmail.com" class="">niloofar.peace@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Not having been able to do anything physical, I've been bombarding FOG with articles and video clips will try to restrain myself. The forecast for Saturday is good, so I'd hopefully be able to be at the demonstration with a sign. I don't have a listserv of potentially interested individuals for the purpose of publicizing our events -they're either oblivious to what directly affects them or they have "worthier" causes to focus on than protecting the wildlife :(.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Viktoria, let's keep it in the back of our minds to discuss what kind of material to include in a "News" section for our website to keep the visitors engaged.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Niloofar</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 12:09 PM Viktoria Ford <<a href="mailto:viktoriaford@gmail.com" class="">viktoriaford@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">What an amazing document! This is worth saving. Let's hope we get some action on this issue here soon in the US.<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:17 AM cindi adkins <<a href="mailto:cynthiadkins@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">cynthiadkins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Thanks for sharing, Niloofar. <br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, I'm grateful there is an acknowledgement for animals. However, I don't know where Pakistan still stands on child marriage and valuing women.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class="">Cindi<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:29 PM Niloofar Shambayati <<a href="mailto:niloofar.peace@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">niloofar.peace@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Yes, such a recognition is truly welcomed; but, unfortunately, the distance between ruling and practice is long.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Niloofar</div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 9:58 PM Philip Douglas <<a href="mailto:dougphi456@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">dougphi456@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">At least there's a progressive high court somewhere in the world...<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 8:48 PM Niloofar Shambayati <<a href="mailto:niloofar.peace@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">niloofar.peace@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Just in case you haven't read ALDF's article about <a href="https://aldf.org/article/islamabad-high-court-holds-that-animals-have-legal-rights/#:~:text=In%20a%20groundbreaking%20decision%2C%20the,protection%20under%20the%20nation's%20constitution." rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">Pakistan High Court's decision on animal legal rights</a> <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Niloofar</div></div>
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