rxl@lanl-a.UUCP (04/09/84)
---------- PLEASE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE VIOLENCE TO RID YOUR GARDEN OF MOLES!!! Page 35 of the 1984 BRECK'S advance sale catalogue details the CROWN IMPERIALS, one of Holland's most spectacular flowers, which has a special scent that helps keep moles and rodents out of your garden -- Nature's own repellent. These are very beautiful flowers (grown from bulbs) which are easy to grow and have up to 3-foot stems topped by a full circle of bright colored bells, with the green leaves crowning them in the center. They bloom in May usually. So please have compassion for these creatures, and do not harm them. There are ways to rid your garden of them without using force or harmful poisons. Breck's address: BRECK'S U.S. Reservation Center 6523 N. Galena Road Peoria, Illinois 61632 Thanks for appreciating all of G-d's creatures, great and small! Rick Light (rxl@lanl) ____________
archiel@hercules.UUCP (Archie Lachner) (04/10/84)
Next someone will be telling me that I shouldn't kill slugs, snails, and
insects! I'm not one to go around snuffing out the life of every animal
I encounter, but I have no qualms about killing off garden pests. However,
I do advocate quick and humane methods of extermination.
Nature is full of killing; animals kill each other in order to eat and
survive. This is what I am doing, albeit indirectly, by killing garden
pests that compete with me for a food supply. Even if you eat only food
bought at a store, chances are that animals (in the broad sense, insects
included) were killed during its production. I count the use of predatory
insects in organic gardening in this as well.
I don't agree that killing of animals is wrong. Random and needless killing
or killing that is slow and/or painful is wrong. I doubt that there is a
man or woman alive who has not benefited, directly or indirectly, from the
death of many of God's creatures. I believe animals should be treated with
respect, but that this does not prohibit killing for survival.
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Archie Lachner
Logic Design Systems Division
Tektronix, Inc.
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