May 18, 2006
Albert, Florida has need of thee at this hour...
None of the MSM coverage of recent alligator dining habits has shown the slightest sympathy for an oppressed reptilian class. (i) Humans are full of drugs, food additives, sugar and salt, not to mention pens, watches, snorkel masks, and other hardware: eating them causes ADD, autism, or something else, I forget what. The FDA has never approved people as a safe diet item for any reptile! (ii) Alligators are finally getting their fair share of people...and being shot for it by government jackbooted thugs, or maybe gt's in waders, or Tevas, whatever. This story is really about two injustices, but do we hear about them in the paper? How about some balanced reporting that isn't completely speciesist and biased?
I, for one, welcome our new crocodilian overlords.
Posted by: No Nym at May 18, 2006 12:19 PMIt is not like the Alligators are skinning people and making suit cases out of them! Alligators just eat when they are hungry, not just to look fashinable!
It is pay back time and the gators are mad!
Posted by: Ole Blue at May 18, 2006 12:27 PMI for one am glad they're finally doing something to address the alligator/human population imbalance in Florida.
Posted by: Tom Hilton at May 18, 2006 01:21 PMMichael:
Is there supposed to be a link to some news story that you are commenting on? It sure seems to me that if you could find it and identify it as the missing link that would be a much more interesting headline for the National Enquirer ("ACADEMIC BLOGGER FINDS MISSING LINK!")
Posted by: marcel at May 18, 2006 01:44 PMI have to speak up in defense of the FDA here. I have some water turtles, and my experience is that they will eat anything. One time one of them seemed to dislocate its jaw in order to eat a rock that was larger than its head. Why? Who knows. It didn't seem to bother him much, and 3 or 4 years later, when he had gotten much bigger, he passed the rock, which had digested down into a smooth little pearl. So I don't think pens or any other hardware will really bother alligators much.
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