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                | Monadnock Guide | Posted - April 30 2008 : 4:58:19 PM Took another hike today, and ran into a large group of high school kids on an "eco field trip" - only thing it could be called. In any case, they were listening to this female teacher talking about birds, - a long chat. When she took a breath, one of them asked her what a raptor was. She spread her arms wide and said "they have big wings, a large beak, and eat" .... bingo, she instantly looked like she was choking on something. "They eat, - they eat, (cough) well, they're not vegetarians" ... It was simply beyond her to say they ate other birds and small animals. These are truly strange folk, ...
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                | RedFraggle | Posted - May 01 2008 : 08:18:45 AM That's all kinds of ridiculous.  Now I'm imagining a world in the distant future where all elementary-school textbooks print "not vegetarian" instead of "carnivore" or "preys on small birds, fish, and mammals."  *Sigh.*
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                | Monadnock Guide | Posted - April 30 2008 : 7:36:56 PM Actually Obe my point was she was INTENT on avoiding saying that raptors were birds that killed and ate other animals, - kind of enough pc there to make one puke. They're hunters, plain & simple, nothing wrong with that, part on nature, - don't try and make something else.
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                | Obediah | Posted - April 30 2008 : 6:54:42 PM Isn't that like the old saw, "Vegan: Native American word meaning 'Lousy Hunter'"?
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