a curious catalog

[Guest guest]

<PRE>i just got in the mail a catalog where one can pay for livestock to

give(donate) to a poor third world family. cows, sheep, goats, oxen, camels,

llamas, donkeys, bees, water buffalo, ducks, guinea pigs, rabbits, geese,

pigs, 2 flocks of chicks. very not vegan.

[Guest guest]

I got that same catalogue, and I couldn't figure out what mailing list I had

been put on that would have led that catalogue to me. I haven't really looked

at it, because I was just too flabergasted. I could understand donating money

for land or seed, but animals. I just can't get it. Another case of people

unclear on the concept.

stoneysmrf wrote:

stoneysmrf

Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:52:08 EDT

a curious catalog

 

<PRE>i just got in the mail a catalog where one can pay for livestock to

give(donate) to a poor third world family. cows, sheep, goats, oxen, camels,

llamas, donkeys, bees, water buffalo, ducks, guinea pigs, rabbits, geese,

pigs, 2 flocks of chicks. very not vegan.

 

 

[Guest guest]

hmm... seems like it would be better to teach sustainable farming

techniques/hydroponics to them and pool vegetable seeds. I read

about a guy that was teaching starving villages to make hydroponic

farms w/ different sizes of bamboo for tubing, make their own

hydroponic solutions, etc. It would seem this would be much more

effective and efficient, rather than destroying their land thru

grazing. Though the bees would help if they were farming veggies.

 

, stoneysmrf@a... wrote:

> <PRE>i just got in the mail a catalog where one can pay for

livestock to

> give(donate) to a poor third world family. cows, sheep, goats,

oxen, camels,

> llamas, donkeys, bees, water buffalo, ducks, guinea pigs, rabbits,

geese,

> pigs, 2 flocks of chicks. very not vegan.