It is the truth and I am hopeful there will be a movement in SF to get Live food Meat Poultry Market Vendors to stop selling live King Pigeons, Chicken etc... to the public. I am sure if Foster farms was releasing poultry birds alive to the public and they ended up in the streets, I would be some how involved in helping them. There is another side to my last sentence related to health code issues and animal cruelty, which I am not touching base on here, but want to acknowledge it exists. Maybe by being involved in this rescue means I am saving the life of animals that would have been killed to be eaten, so am I making a bigger difference by just rescuing them and while feeling helpless that the problem will ever end. After all personally my idea world would be that no one ate animals and every animal had safe or natural home.
I am sitting here looking at this baby King Friday (below link), yesterdays Squab.. wondering how they can even be eaten at all. But to be raised to be eaten in small enclosures with no enrichment, sold to someone and tossed in the streets to be eaten up by a hawk, smashed by a car or just starve to death... I'll keep helping the ones I can.
I think Starfish will make a fine name for an upcoming Pij:)
Happy day to everyone!
Follow this link to see Baby King Friday!
Cheryl
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From: Robert Allen <rallen@atombum.com>
To: General mickaboo discussion <discuss@mickaboo.org>; MickaCoo@mickaboo.org; Tammy Azzaro <tammyazzaro@gmail.com>
Sent: Sat, November 6, 2010 11:31:50 AM
Subject: Re: [MickaCoo] [Mickaboo Discuss] I don't know what to do
Elizabeth,
Just keep doing what you're doing. Unfortunately you've chosen to rescue animals who are readily resupplied by society. It's sort of like rescuing whole fryer chickens. No matter how many you rescue, there will always be more. So with that in mind, I give you the parable of the starfish, which fits in many cases, including this one:
"Most teachers know the story of the man who was walking along a beach at low tide, picking up a random starfish and flinging it back to sea, then bending over and repeating the process as he made his way down his little part of the coast.
He was approached by another man who had been watching the seemingly hopeless task of returning thousands of starfish to the safety of the ocean. The second man asked the first, “Why are you trying to save the starfish? Don’t you see it’s a hopeless task? You’ll never be able to save them all! What difference will it make?”
The first man bent over once again and picked up another starfish. “It makes a difference to this one. ” And threw it back to the ocean."
Robert
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