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    " DawnWatch " <KarenDawn

To:      howarddy2

DawnWatch: National Review Online has two great pieces on animal

issues

Date:    Fri, 6 Dec 2002 18:34:11 -0800

 

 

 

National Review Online is the e-companion of the conservative magazine,

National

Review. It gets one million distinctive visitors per month.

 

Currently, at the top of the front page of the NRO website, visitors see a

box

with the picture of a bound lamb - the picture is from the cover of Matthew

Scully's book, " Dominion. " The box points to two terrific articles. One is an

interview with Scully about the book and our society's treatment of animals.

The

other is an article, by Rod Dreher, posted December 6, entitled " To Hunt or

Not

to Hunt. "

 

Dreher begins his piece,

" I was a successful deer hunter exactly once. And it was the last day I ever

hunted deer. Killing that big, beautiful animal for no good reason left me

disgusted with myself. Shortly after that, I quit hunting game for good, and

hadn't thought about it for over 20 years, until I started reading Matthew

Scully's remarkable book Dominion, which makes an impassioned conservative

case

for reconsidering the often-brutal way we humans exercise our God-given

dominion

over the natural world. "

 

The piece is gorgeous. He discusses his feelings of regret upon killing the

buck, and then later, after killing two squirrels.

 

The article is not very long, and well worth reading. One of my favorite

segments follows:

 

" My father didn't understand, and rebuked me harshly for my unmanliness. I

didn't care what he said, that was the end of me and hunting. Looking back on

it, I think that miserable morning when I chose to obey my conscience rather

than what my father and my culture demanded of me taught me more about

authentic

manhood than anything I learned on the hunt. "

 

You'll find the Dreher article on line at:

http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher120602.asp

 

Here's a link for AOLers:

<<A HREF= " http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher120602.asp " >To Hunt or Not

to Hunt</A>

 

The interview with Scully is also a nice read. I was very gratified to find

links throughout the article to photo gallery pages about chickens, pigs and

veal calves from the http://www.factoryfarming.com website. Seeing them on

the

website of this conservative magazine made me realize how far (with Matthew

Scully's help) we have come.

 

You'll find the interview with Matthew Scully at:

http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory120602.asp

 

Here's a link for AOLers:

HREF= " http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory120602.asp " >

Explo

ring Dominion

 

The National Review Online has a discussion page of sorts called " The Corner "

and a link on it from which you can email comments, at:

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp

 

The email address for comments is: thecorner

Link: thecorner

 

Yours and the animals',

Karen Dawn

www.DawnWatch.com

 

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