Thursday, October 19, 2006
Insect Rights: Thoughts on Ants, Cockroaches, Mosquitoes and Other Bugs
INSECT RIGHTS: THOUGHTS ON ANTS COCKROACHES MOSQUITOES AND OTHER BUGS
Terry McGovern, deceased daughter of Senator George and Eleanor McGovern, subject of the book Terry by her father: I go out of my way to avoid stepping on ants.
Actress Rhonda Fleming (Christian) "I cannot kill an ant."
Actor James Coburn: (Buddhist) I do not kill flies.
Vedas: Jada Bharat was drafted to carry with others the
palanquin of the king. He stepped to avoid ants in such
a way that his actions were erratic and he was released from
compulosry duty.
Peter Burwash, professional tennis player and vegetarian
saw a column of ants come onto the court and crawl toward
the net. He lost the match because he would not harm them.
Father Ron Lengwin, KDKA host:
Adam's apple may have been the heart of the first animal
butchered.
Warsaw ghetto oncentration camp survivor Alex Hershaft: The last thing
my father told me before he was taken away to be killed was not to harm the cockroaches who ran along the walls of
our holding area.
JR: At the base of the eyelash
is an invisible mite.
Ask not what your mite can do for you
but what you can do for your mite.
And always remember
mite makes right.
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"Even kings and emperors of great wealth and vast dominion cannot
compare with an ant filled with the love of God."
-Guru Nanak-
COCKROACHES
When one grows up in Manhattan where apartment buildings are constantly involved in extermination of cockroaches one realizes) they are always waiting in the wings.
J Freundschuh:
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MOSQUITOES
Johnny Appleseed Chapman biographer
James Howard Kuntsler:
If a hornet flew into his raggedy pants, why Johnny (Appleweed) just figured the poor thing was scared to find himself lost in such a deep dark cave, and he endured his stings until he departed. If he was fixing to sleep in the woods on a fall night, Johnny would rather lie in the cold than build a fire that might kill any of the season's last lingering mosquitoes. As for the great beasts of the forest, the bears and wolves, they must have sensed that there was something different about Johnny, 'cause they always were friendly and obliging. The bears would rub their backs against him like he was their favorite back-scratching tree and the wolves liked to lick his head.
C Wilson: I was nursing my baby daughter.. a mosquito
landed on my arm.. I decided to let him nurse too
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Yogananda: (paraphrased): I slept covered in mosquito
netting. My master in the next bed had no netting at
all. I awoke with many bites, he with none. When I
asked him why, he replied I had mosquito consciousness.
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Chemical companies have billions of dollars in contracts to kill mosquitoes
using insecticide sprays which poison all the waters of the world. They act
with the CDC and the WHO in
promotion of the West Nile Virus
scam. Politicians are invested in
huge corporations, e.g. Donald Rumsfeld who has the American
distribution rights to the toxic Tamiflu
'vaccine' of Roche.
Nonvegetarians are more bothered by mosquitoes because of the odor of their blood.
OTHER
Brother James Marcus: The sweet
rain has stilled the voice of the winged
ones.
Cessation of mowing is one way to protect insects
http://stopmowing.blogspot.com
