Posts by Geoff Lealand
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@Jackie. Still, you love her and that is what matters. We could consider the cost of producing and raising a child to adulthood--I recall seeing a figure of around $250,000 per child to feed, clothe, educate, medicate yer average child.
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@ Cecelia; there other people better qualified than I to make such assessments...and I haven't been following events as closely as I should. But I worry about the state of America. At times, the bleak view of humanity shared by fundamentalist groups there seem only to be a shade of difference away from the fundamentalism of the Taliban.
The shootings in Tuscon seem to have their origins in standard-issue conspiracy theories. Dean Ballinger in my department did a great PhD thesis on the nature of conspiracy theories last year and I hope it finds its way into the public discourse.
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I might eat a dig but not a dog ;-)
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As I recall, there did seem to be authority in their analyses--assessments of energy expenditure vs consumption. Still, they probably didn't account sufficiently for the contradictions and ambiguities of life. Are we really going to stew up Tiddles with a few onions and a clove of garlic, or boil up Rover with a few sprigs of rosemary. There are intangibles they don't take into account eg how living and loving pets can make us better persons, and happier to co-exist with our own species.
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Apologies for the double banger--blame it on fat fingers and the contrary nature of my iPod Touch.
Nice to wake to soft, warm rain this morning. -
I think it may be from the same source: a very provocative book by two academics who have a NZ connection: Brenda & Robert Vale, "Time to eat the dog? The real guide to sustainable living"
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I think it may be from the same source: a very provocative book by two academics who have a NZ connection: Brenda & Robert Vale, "Time to eat the dig? The real guide to sustainable living"
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Maybe we should start taxing them--especially all those cats who lie around all day doing sweet f/all.
Seriously though, the economics of pet ownership is an under-investigated topic. I recall reading about pets in Japan: if they stopped importing pet food, they would need to devote 70% of their farm land to growing petfood.I love animals (dogs more than cats) but there is an economic and envuronmental cost.
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Yikes! Two left hands? Left and right, I think it should be.
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Mosquitos! Pah–small fry!! I was scratching around in a pile of mulch in December and disturbed a wasp nest. Five stings on the left hand and six on the left hand. Now, that hurt!
Just taken the cats to the vet, for jabs and pills. Cost $179. Why does animal treatment cost so much more than treatment of humans?