Sure, it's exciting for business to be visited by a pet food mogul from Singapore and encouraged to be part of his pet food empire, but haven't we begun to lose sight of what we value here? Mr Kwek says it's our clean and green image that sells his pet food at a premium price to the wealthy owners of cats and dogs, but what about that image? Won't it be spoiled when it becomes known that we are selling the endangered native fishes that swim in our waterways to be ground up for dog and cat food?
How will people who might want to visit Southland react to that idea? With our lush green landscape changing to one that's covered in cows and coal mines, this plan to turn our eels into pet food might be a step too far.
Can we not leave at least a few natural attractions for visitors to enjoy?
Robert Guyton
RIVERTON
(Letter to the editor - Saturday's Southland Times)
6 comments:
I agree
Isn't eel-viewing already high on the list of tourist attractions in Southland?
This could be a real money-spinner for an entreprenurial local (although I accept that this capitalist notion is a bit naughty!) ?
Not that I know of, Shasta. Eel-viewing's more a Pupu Springs kinda thing. Some Capitalist notions are good, of course. We don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water. It's finding the right balance that's the trick. Money-spinning too, has its place, but with reason as its governor.
Should be using possum instead of eels
I'm told that a dog could do well on possum meat alone, so there must be plenty of goodness in them, especially given the good diets they seem to enjoy.Otoh, I've friends who feed their dogs on a vegan diet and those dogs are very healthy indeed.
+1 on Vegan Dogs Robert :-)
I've picked up your letters to the paper habit :-)
http://www.coexisting.co.nz/2012/07/nz-cancer-society-reduce-animal-flesh.html
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