On Thursday, March 31, 2005, at 01:25 AM, Peter Lunenfeld wrote: > Dear Kim -- > > It's best to do at least a tiny bit of research before you post a > question > to a list. In defense of Kim. She has been dumped on this list by her instructor. It's not her fault. Gloria Monti > gloria monti, ph.d. cleveland heights, OH [log in to unmask] At 7:34 a.m. on Monday the barbaric clubbing of one of the first baby seals killed on Canada's ice floes this season began, signaling the start of the largest commercial slaughter of marine mammals on the planet. They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka. Isaac Bashevis Singer, *The Letter Writer"* ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html