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Rare and Wonderful
by Glenn Woiceshyn
Published in the monthly Financial Post Magazine, in
the May/1995 edition.
Dear Editor,
Re: "Editor's Note"--by Editor Nancy Gall--Mar/95--The Financial Post Magazine
In your Editor's Note, Nancy Gall writes: "Call me a humanocentric, species-ist
oppressor, but I vote for the human every time." I'd call her rare and wonderful,
especially at a time when anti-human sentiment has somehow become "politically
correct" in the media.
Mark Anderson's report on Newfoundland's seal fiasco (The Kill -- March/1995 -- FP
Magazine) provides yet another example of the dishonesty and destructiveness of the
"animal rights" and environmental movements. [While seal hunters have suffered
dramatically due to boycotts on seal harvesting, there is now an overpopulation of
pesky seals.]
When are people going to wake up to the fact that beneath the alleged love and worship
of pristine nature lurks the nihilistic rage to rule or destroy humans?
What a gimmick! Profess love for animals, pristine nature, bio-diversity and even
primitive life, in order to condemn technology, industry, development, freedom and
the resulting diversity of human values such as longer and healthier living, stimulating
knowledge, delicious foods, exciting careers, marvelous vacations and more time and
energy for other mental and physical joys. Fear and guilt are the two most potent
weapons to manipulate humans, so distort facts, appeal to emotions and corrupt logic,
science and economics in order to cook up a witch's brew of scary doomsday myths.
Ingenious!
I sincerely hope that Ms. Gall has set a new precedent in her refreshing, unflinching,
pro-human stance.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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