Timothy Nye Dolby wrote:
>
> Dear birding.aus,
>
> In regards to the Duck à l'Orange recipe - please understand
> I am vehemently opposed to duck shooting and I am sorry if
> this recipe offended anyone.
>
> However those who criticized the duck recipe (and me
> personally) seemed to have missed the point. The recipe is
> suggestive of an internal sociological contradiction in our
> community - indeed our own bird watching community. For
> example, 95% of the people who subscribe to birding.aus
> probably have a duck recipe sitting on their kitchen
> shelves!
>
> The recipe was a chance for us to laugh at ourselves - and
> at our own inadequacies. As an analogy, the best anti-war
> movies are usually humorous - see 'Dr. Strangelove, or How I
> Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'.
>
> The recipe was a joke - a consequential joke. It implied
> that we should first look at our own behaviour before we
> criticize the behaviour of others.
>
> All the best,
>
> Tim
>
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> Tim Dolby
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Quite so, Tim! I'll wager that at least one quarter of B-aus
subscribers (ardent conservationsist one and all) enjoy the odd bit of
recreational fishing. Of course that's okay, they're not "cute" like
ducks. I could go on, but I'll leave it at that.
--
"Beware of Half-truths... you may have the wrong half"
M. Scott O'Keeffe
Centre for Conservation Biology
University of Queensland
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