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- diggstown, on 06/25/2008, -0/+12How is this relevant to the story?
- walugi, on 06/25/2008, -2/+10Easy: Shoot the poachers
- diggstown, on 06/25/2008, -0/+8http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersio ...
- Nudar, on 06/25/2008, -0/+7Well our own debt is over 9 trillion dollars so how can we afford to forgive anyone else's?
- davidconnell, on 06/25/2008, -0/+7No one should ever own a frickin pet sloth, monkey or any other exotic pets. WTF? Rescue a dog or cat from a shelter if you want companionship.
- diggstown, on 06/25/2008, -2/+8Especially the tasty ones.
- JaggedHairball, on 06/25/2008, -0/+5I had a hunch that the US was somehow responsible for this, thanks.
- x00x, on 06/25/2008, -1/+6Yeah, if it weren't for the USA the dinosaurs would never have become extinct.
- serif69, on 06/25/2008, -0/+5I was going to post a joke about eating endangered species, but you beat me to it with the mother of all taboo food jokes.
- axiomflash, on 06/25/2008, -4/+8It is inhumane to keep a lot of wild animals as pets. For example, animals that normally have a square mile of habitat now have a cage or your living room, or animals that need to be kept in pairs, or the list goes on and on. Its likely that most of these pets, including your sloth, have needs the owner doesn't know of and the animals suffer. I've seen it many times.
And I think it is disgusting you bought a sloth on the black market. All the laws you broke are in existence for the protection of the animal, and the people, and the environment. Absolutely disgusting. - lordewoks, on 06/25/2008, -1/+4A sloth? Really? What made you decide to get a sloth of all things?
- azurechaos, on 06/25/2008, -0/+3I'm not particularly thrilled that fish who normally have miles and miles of ocean are kept in tiny bowls or tanks.
- axiomflash, on 06/25/2008, -3/+6And I just want to point out the idiocy of your point about dog and cat owners. Dogs and cats are species that have been domesticated for thousands and thousands of years! To compare a wild sloth that you have captive is so asinine I am at a loss of words...
- WorldLeader, on 06/25/2008, -1/+4Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.......
.........so we should always help other countries (because it is our fault if they have problems) BUT when we do get involved suddenly we are this globalist imperialist powerhouse? - meruru, on 06/25/2008, -0/+3Call Capt. Planet!
- ErikHarrison, on 06/25/2008, -2/+4Exactly.
- MiDri, on 06/25/2008, -4/+6Any one else read this as "Peru's Illegal wife trade might be unstoppable" ???...
- inactive, on 06/25/2008, -4/+6Why go around talking about willingness. education and interest?
Tell it like it is: the illegal wildlife trade is unstoppable because people are way too ***** stupid and egocentric to even figure out why it's a bad thing.
Most of the illegal wildlife trade is about making aphrodisiacs for impotent asians. Because they have tiny penises.
The governments over there are poor, protecting animals is the last thing on their budget. Things like water and electricity tend to take priority.
The people buying are to blame. They're rich, educated and extremely stupid. - inactive, on 06/25/2008, -2/+4You "had to buy your sloth on the black market". The way they collect sloths in the wild is to shoot a mother sloth and take the baby. Hope you enjoy your pet. That's how they get wild monkeys too, shoot the mother. I've seen the illegal trade in wildlife firsthand ( much time in the outback in Amazonas & Pará ). The trade in illegal piabos ( tropical fish ) disrupts the breeding cycle of the fish and hastens their decline. People who buy exotic pets are the problem. Don't get caught doing this ***** in Brasil, I know a guy from Europe who is doing 16 years in prison right now. He's got 15 years ahead of him.
- stfucupcake, on 06/25/2008, -0/+2People who support the exotic pet trade will always create a justification for it.
"Levels of companionship that a pound puppy can't"? lol. That statement makes you sound more than slightly weird. - Cate320, on 06/25/2008, -0/+2LOL yep.
A few years ago when the Israel crap was acting up, on the news here they were complaining "Why isn't the United States doing anything?"
Then the next story was complaining about US involvement in Iraq :x - Lawrencesss, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1Bride.peru
- Thekirby45, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1what the *****
- diggydougie, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1It's all about supply and demand. The more rare an animal is, the more valuable it is. If it's valuable enough people will break the law to get them - just like drugs. If they would set up breeding farms in peru them we could leave the wild population alone. But it's a lot cheaper to just catch one rather than to raise one.
- Imoknow, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1The animals are the ones who suffer once again. What a shame! Why can't humans get the concept of leaving animals and Nature alone???
- Lawrencesss, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1I still remember the episode Hoggus Greedly and Lutin Plunder smuggled parrots in their hubcaps.
- Upon66, on 06/25/2008, -1/+228. Unstoppable?
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Jimd987.aspx - Fluvant, on 02/27/2009, -1/+2Sad thing is; that bird will probably be sold in the US for over 1000 dollars.
- mitchlourens, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1me too.
- void, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1He's our hero
- manstein01, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1Then post their bodies on stakes as examples to other poachers in the area. If I am a poacher, and I take a look at a half-devoured corpse, I might think twice.
- alexonix, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1Yes!
- inactive, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1earth?
- PeppermintPig, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1Well, if nobody owns the land or the animals, it's rather easy for poachers to go about doing what they have been doing. If the sale were legal, a market would grow for reputable and safe merchants, as well as people who buy up land solely to preserve the environment.
Government ownership of land is at the mercy of what the current regime wants to do with it. - PeppermintPig, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Great points.
- PeppermintPig, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1The illegality is the problem. I find it extremely ironic that so many people who claim to care about animals then support a system that does the most harm to them.
- inactive, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1Everything is stoppable, it's just our unwillingness to do change.
- inactive, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1Micropenis affects all races but it's more wide-spread in Asia than anywhere else in the world.
There was even a study that showed that the average size of european and american condoms being much too large for Asian men was a factor in the spread of STD. They don't fit so they don't wear them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6161691.stm
Let's not play pretend here. If asians were "up to the task", they wouldn't be the greatest consumers of male enhancement products and aphrodisiacs in the world, and especially not by a margin of 10 to 1, compared to other continents. - DrPh0bius, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1Seriously...
First, if there wasnt a market for it, there would be no need for the supply.
But more realistically, youre trying to educate people on preserving wildlife and indigenous species, and the people have pretty much no other means to support themselves. Like telling the Columbian farmers not to farm poppy, because "drugs are bad." Its a wider reaching issue than is being admitted. - SilentSpyder, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1I used to be into exotic animals before I found out about the havoc it wrecks on them and the enviorment. As much as I think it would be cool to walk a snow leopard in the streets, it's just not right. I'll stick with the boring, yet safe cats and dogs.
- PeppermintPig, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1But the law isn't stopping these people from doing what they are doing. This is just another form of prohibition.
I personally have no interest in owning any of these animals and would prefer to see their natural habitat unencumbered by the encroachment of human development, but without a solid sense of property rights, it only takes an inconsiderate government to establish a logging or development contract with a connected corporation to destroy the ecosystem.
Ultimately, some people just want to own these animals. If the government can't do enough to protect the animals, then private organizations should take over. It's the best way to insure their survival. If your business relies on the sale of exotic animals, you would have the interest to maintain and grow the population so it can survive. - PeppermintPig, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Owning dogs and cats is legal today, but there's always a percentage of people who will abuse them.
Point is, it would be easier to refuse sale of exotic pets to people who can't handle them if the business was legal, since they could employ testing or background screening for people wanting to own animals with higher maintenance requirements. If the business remains illegal, however, the prices that these animals go for will overrule any sense of moral responsibility. - PeppermintPig, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1LOL, entitlement issues? Please identify where I'm advocating free-riding.
Do you have an actual solution, genius? - walugi, on 06/25/2008, -3/+3Sloths are ***** awesome! Good job dude!
- inactive, on 06/25/2008, -0/+0whop de do. Who gives a *****.
- culbeda, on 06/25/2008, -1/+1It would be easier to shoot the people who buy the animals (preferably in the knee caps). Once the demand dries up, I'm betting the supply will too.
- inactive, on 06/25/2008, -0/+0Maybe I interpreted you incorrectly but it seems when you use terms such as "private property rights" "natural resources" in reference to owning wildlife you kinda sound like a giant douchebag with entitlement issues.
- isleepyx3, on 06/25/2008, -3/+3because tiny penises = impotence? and where the hell do you get this aphrodisiac ***** or that the ppl buying are all rich, educated.. and stupid?
***** dumbass. -
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