[Peace] Fwd: Karen's Letter on Slaughtering Urbana's Geese

[Karen Aram]

Ron, 

I might not have found the good people of this community concerned with the geese to support in their efforts, but I personally would oppose killing the rats, and skunks as well as geese. I’m sure there is a means of controlling them, also without bloodshed. 

I would never kill mice either, when they entered my kitchen nightly in Bangkok, I captured one every night in a cage then released it in a field, near food stalls with garbage. Seventeen nights, seventeen mice. 

In Thailand they didn’t kill the stray dogs or cats either, and they were over run with mangy strays, more dogs on the streets than we have squirrels in our parks, eventually they dedicated a huge field, after neutering, for them to live out their lives in peace without reproducing. Thai’s are a very peaceful people from whom we could learn a lot.

 Many Thai’s won’t kill insects, I admit I do kill insects when they enter my domain.

Now aren’t you glad you asked?


> On May 24, 2020, at 20:21, Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu> wrote:
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> Would you say the same if the park were being overrun by skunks or rats?   If not, please explain the difference.  
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> From: Peace <peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net> on behalf of Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2020 5:10 PM
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> Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Karen's Letter on Slaughtering Urbana's Geese
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> 
> International Law Professor Francis Boyle’s response to my letter related to the planned slaughter of geese :
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> "Karen has a very fine and sensitive letter in today’s NG against Urbana slaughtering their geese. She ties it up into everything else going on in the world today including Covid-19 and US Wars around the world. I don’t live in Urbana. But it seems to me that Urbana should give a reprieve to their geese as an Affirmation of Life. Something we need these dark days for sure. In any event, well done Karen!” Congrats! Fab.
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>  In another comment he refers to it as: “Respect for Life in a time of death and destruction." Fab.
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