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Heed the lesson of the Lorax!

March 13, 2012 by Editor

 

Here are some of the inane lies people have told me and apparently tell themselves.

Humans are not animals. Animals can’t think, reason or feel pain. Trapping is a sport. Only humans have autism. Cancer is not caused by pesticides (umbrella term). Herbicides are safe. All developmental malformations are genetic. Saving newborns, including children, would damage the economy. A male deer born with no scrotum will grow a scrotum when it matures. On male mammals born with a scrotum that is narrow, short and misaligned (parallel to the spine), the condition is an artifact of being dead. Goats are born with an underbite because they are Nubians. Llamas are born with an underbite because they are llamas. You can’t fix underbite with a pill. Foals are born with underbite or overbite because they are inbred. There are TOO MANY white-tailed deer, so they are inbred. Inbreeding causes thedeer to be born with an underbite and reproductive malformations. We are not seeing any underbite on big game animals. When beef calves are born with underbite, it is because of the bull.

NOW THAT IS A LOT OF BULL!

Listen to the Lorax who speaks for the tree, The wolf and the bear, the deer, elk and bee.

Unless you stop lying to yourselves and to me

And start caring a bunch and a whole awful lot,

Nothing is ever going to get better. IT’S NOT!

Pass on to your children a planet that’s green.

Pass on to your children a planet that’s clean.

Fight for your children against people so mean

They live to make money by poison and rot.

Unless you start caring a whole awful lot,

Nothing is ever going to get better. IT’S NOT!

With many thanks to the Lorax and apologies to Dr. Seuss.

Judy Hoy

Stevensville

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