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AlphaCentauri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 03:47 PM
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Reporter Convicted For Killing Fish With Shampoo
A TV reporter in Denmark wanted to prove the danger of shampoo. She said some hair-care products contain toxic chemicals. So she poured them into a fish tank. A dozen guppies proved her point by dying in front of the TV cameras. A veterinarian turned her in for animal cruelty. The reporter has been convicted in the incident from 2004. But the trial took so long, the judge decided not to punish her.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104335974
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the other one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 03:49 PM
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1. Eating meat is murder.
Our whole society is guilty.
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 03:52 PM
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3. So are those damn lions, wolves, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, cougars, panthers, tigers, and warthogs
Damn murdering carnivores and omnivores. We should throw them ALL in cages.
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AlphaCentauri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:00 PM
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6. not so long ago men used to be hunters n/t
Edited on Wed May-20-09 04:01 PM by AlphaCentauri
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Fla_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:08 PM
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22. some of us still are
:hi:
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:01 PM
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8. Yea, how dare us omnivores actually eat meat. We're such animals! n/t
Edited on Wed May-20-09 04:02 PM by Subdivisions
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montanto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:00 PM
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5. What's your point?
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:00 PM
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7. Just like the anti-choicers, you are playing fast and loose with the precisely defined...
legal term "murder"
Emotionalism in the service of an agenda
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:01 PM
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9. Delicious, Delicious murder
with a chipotle marinade.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:06 PM
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11. Does that include all non-herbivorous animals?
Must we imprison wolves? Execute panthers? Place raptors under house arrest?
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:09 PM
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12. That's my new response to PETA crap... works well, don't you think? n/t
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:11 PM
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13. Why do they oppose wolf hunts? Are they just trying to protect murderers?
Edited on Wed May-20-09 04:15 PM by Occam Bandage
Aren't they concerned about the thousands of deer victimized by wolves every year? Hypocritical bastards.
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:13 PM
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15. LOL.. Good point.
How long do you think it would take for this argument to tie them in knots?
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sharp_stick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:25 PM
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17. Tasty Tasty Murder
Edited on Wed May-20-09 04:26 PM by sharp_stick
Damn! I was clearly beaten to this punchline!

;-)

Time to light up the bbq?

:hide:
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:32 PM
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27. if meat is murder
are eggs rape?

(not my quote)
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 03:50 PM
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2. Given a fish's ecosystem is rather different, she's an empty-headed dunderhead.
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:13 PM
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16. Not to mention that a fishtank is a delicately balanced ecosystem
in the first place. Pouring anything--even something non-toxic--in the water could kill them.
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:33 PM
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28. assuming the fish were freshwater fish
even a fair bit of salt would have killed them.

it's a stupid demonstration for that reason
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napoleon_in_rags Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 03:55 PM
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4. Yeah, that one sounds pretty brain dead.
She could have also "demonstrated the presence of toxins" by putting fish in a really hot bowl of soup, wine, or she could have simply demonstrated the "toxins" in the air by taking the fish out of the fish tank.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:03 PM
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10. Where do you think the water goes after you rinse your hair?
come to think of it, I'm not really sure where it goes.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:04 PM
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21. To a waste water treatment plant where they filter out stuff like shampoo.
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:08 PM
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23. Doesn't apply to rural areas
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:48 PM
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31. True, in rural areas, it goes through a septic system that breaks down the shampoo.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:09 PM
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24. So the lesson to be learned from this reporter is don't shampoo your fish. n/t
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:48 PM
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32. ...or don't breathe shampoo n/t
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AlphaCentauri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:14 PM
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25. Not all chemicals are removed from waste water
Study finds human medicines altering marine biology
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/17/local/me-pollute17
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:35 PM
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30. sports scientists known this for decades
estrogen is amongst the worst culprits.

unlike most hormones it's bioavailable through the digestive system and is partially excreted in urine

so, women taking birth control are actually increasing the levels of estrogen in our drinking water.

(checks chest nervously for signs of perkiness)
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Mojo_electro Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:12 PM
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14. Well...
Let's hope that at least the fish died with extra body and shine.

(oh, come on.. I know I know... :P)

That was a dumb thing to do.

Mojo
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:31 PM
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18. War is murder. nt
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:33 PM
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19. Finally, justice for The Great Guppycaust of 2004. n/t
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 04:34 PM
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20. Dial VO5 for murder.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:18 PM
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26. Tune in for the 11 o'clock news
when we'll test the toxicity of claw hammers on bunnies.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-20-09 05:35 PM
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29. You know what else is dangerous to fish? Hammers. Let me show you.
Oh my God, the cruelty!!

http://heinztools.com/resources/_wsb_636x400_Mini+Hammers+sm.jpg
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