--- JIMRPT@aol.com wrote:
>
> Andre wrote:
>
> <<"1. it is made from dead animals">>
Sorry. Thump here, not Antares. ( Couldn't help it!)
>
> Andre an important distinction should be made
> here...that is the animals
> were 'slaughtered' for reasons other than the making
> of glue. Should the
> parts used for glue making just be discarded/wasted?
This is according to one's ethics. By helping to make
the slaughter of animals in any way profitable, some
feel that partaking of ANY of the economic process is
unethical, just as some might refrain from buying a
lampshade made from human skin. In India, some leather
items are made from animals which die naturally. This
is called "Ahimsa" ( non-violent) leather, and is
marked as such. There is no ethical concern in this
very resourceful use, though some still find it rather
disturbing aesthetically.
> Do you also wear no leather?? Have no Leather
> furniture?? Your car not
> leather upholstered?? Drive your car?? Fly in
> airplanes??
I do not wear, eat or use animal products, as much as
possible. I especially do not use regular, animal fat
soap! Just could never understand the idea of
freshening up..... by rubbing a corpse all over me!?!?
Am replacing the brake fluiud in my car with
silicone. Haven't found a substitute for
anti-freeze, though, yet.
>
> <<"2. it usually stinks, or the stench is hidden by
> the
> use of 'sweetening odors',">>
> Andre a good quality hide glue has very little if
> any odor.
Good quality glue smells much less, but I'd hardly
wear it for perfume!
If a batch of
> hide glues has an offensive odor it should not be
> used as the quality is to
> be held suspect. I don't know about "fish" glue.
>
> <<"but I prefer a more 'neutral' glue, not
> derived from animals. The white glue we use and sell
> is a white glue which
> has *no animal residue.*">>
> Hmmmmmmmmmm.........
>
> > We sell this glue as a 'glue kit' : a 250 cc
> *plastic*
> > container with an
> > additional 'glue enforcer', a *plastic* measure
> cup, a
> > *plastic* measure spoon
> Lot of "animal residue" in your packaging...double
> standard?? :-)
> Plastic is "derived" from petroleum aka.......dead
> dinosaurs...aka "animal
> residue".
See "Ahimsa" above. We do not object that human
cadavers are used in medical research, just so long as
they died naturally! But I think we'd object plenty
if medical students went about killing people to
obtain their bodies.
Afro-Americans were considered by our government,
NOT very long ago, expendible "resources", in the same
manner that many still consider animals: hence, the
Tuskegee Syphilis experiment, in which infected blacks
wrre allowed to go without treatment for decades,
while the U.S. Govt. sat back and watched them die!
An increasing number of people, all around the world,
now feel that "animals", as sentient, social beings
capable of feeling pain, should ALSO not be the
victims of our whims! It certainly seems to me that,
as we can put a man on the moon, have 900 channels of
tv and develop the Internet, this compassionate move
is the next logical, and very important step for
humanity.
Thanks!
Thump
> Jim Bryant (FL)
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