There was a time when excellent health was a prerequisite to life not just a fleeting moment of good fortune. I have friends who are not able to eat meat from this majestic animal because they can't bear the thought of it being killed; the point I try to make is that their survival and health have always come with a struggle sometimes meeting death in a far less 'humane' manner at a time when 'humain' and 'bambi syndrome' did not exist.

I find it disgusting that this 'kindness' is leading to the slaughter of breeding cows for dog food. I believe we have a moral responsibility to stop the slaughter of these formidable beasts; the survivors of Bering from a time when the mammoth, saber tooth, wooly rhino and horses succumbed.

It is not hard to understand why the native North Americans of the time would speak to the spirit of this animal as they took its life. The smoke offering was surely smelled by its creator as much as incense from other offerings.

It must not be conceived that the bison were part of North American fauna, culture and survival of the preposterous humans; one can go into caves around the world in the northern hemisphere. Go as far south as Mexico, Spain, Italy.

As you draw your conclusions perhaps you could get to thinking..."what happened to the dinosaurs ?"  Did they die of H5N1?

- Peter Wenkoff

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