At 07:57 PM 19/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
>At 02:18 PM 10/19/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Liath Mactire [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> Sent: Monday, October 19, 1998 2:10 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: RE: importing dung
>>>
>>>
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > > Dayus.
>>> > >
>>> > > P.S. If you find any bear dung, I would be interested in
>>> some to keep the
>>> > > local tom cat out of my dust bin!
>>> >
>>> > I'd be interested to know the importation/exportation rules
>>> on dung. My guess
>>> > is a lid
>>> > would work the best.
>>> > --
>>> > Ian Howard, Ph.D.
>>> >
>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Earls, JP wrote:
>>>
>>> > Aren't import regulations on "lids" even more stringent
>>> than those on
>>> > dung? ;-)
>>>
>>> > J. P. Earls, OSB
>>>
>>> The real issue here is just what are the ethical considerations of
>>> importing bear dung? At least from a bioregional perspective
>>> wouldn't you
>>> think that the home grown bear dung would be preferable to
>>> exotic imports.
>>> Besides...think of the joy of carrying a little bucket
>>> through the forest
>>> gathering bear dung in the autumn. No doubt a really fine
>>> experience if
>>> you can avoid meeting the primary source.
>>>
>>> Liath
>>> A tisket a tasket, I've bear dung in my basket. Not to be
>>> confused with
>>> panther poop.
>>>
>>This should put to rest the perennial question of whether bears, in the
woods,
>>do doodoo or don't. Wild pigs? Well, that's another vexation...
>>JP
>
>Ya but you can tell what is in season by what is in the scats - not of cats
>but of bears. The leaning tower of bear feces left here last fall only
>chased away the nice Jehovahs Witnesses. The deer don't mind bear scats. The
>best thing to do is pick the apples before they do and take your compost in
>town to your mom's garden.
>
>john
>>
>>
Poo! You want poo? Have we got some poo for you...
You ain't seen weird poo until you've seen emu poo...especially after the
old bird has had a feed of blackberries...purple poo in the forest! (With
lots of little blackberry seeds in it) Now that's poo!
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More on the subject of the international poo trade: Is there a tariff? Has
the World Trade Organisation been notified? Who has the comparative
advantage in what poo? What are the social justice and environmental
implications of scat-trade liberalisation?
It all starts here you know! Pretty soon we'll see the market swamped with
cheap south-east Asian dung imports produced by ununionised beasties with
no regard to the externalities. There'll be a race-to-the-bottom (if you'll
pardon the pun), and before you know it Western Liberal Democratic
Civilisation will be drawing to a sorry close.
It's all just shite really.
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Corey Watts
PGDipSc Student
Centre for Conservation Biology
University of Queensland
St Lucia, Qld, AUSTRALIA 4068
email: [log in to unmask]
Ph: +61 7 3365 2475
Fax: +61 7 3365 1655
"Wings and feathers on the crying, mysterious Ages...
...all that is right, all that is good."
D.H. Lawrence, "The Wild Common."
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