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[Bluebonnet Herp]

http://www.gainesville.com/article/2...9972?p=2&tc=pg
A relatively new article on one of many media sites, it was written by Michael Markarian of the Humane Society Legislative Fund. Nonetheless, being only hours old, nobody's posted comments saying how good eating snakes are, how we should ban them, snake keepers are idiots, blah blah blah. That being said, feel free to bash the author, HSUS, and its myriad of incorrect facts. The more educated and calm you look, and the more references you have, the better you help with damage control and the less harm these animal rights activists cause to the herp community.

And yes, many people do read comments.

[asmodeus]

Thanks for providing the link. The article in question does draw on rough statistics with no references, the reader's emotion, and generalizations (such as all species of snake including boa constrictors lay as many eggs as a burmese and that all the "killer" snakes in the list are taking over Florida).

Sent from a happy snake owner.

[ROACH]

I clicked on comments and it wont let me leave a comment.

[dr del]

Just remember when you do things like this you represent the hobby.

"Bashing", while fun and stress relieving, won't win many people to our side of the argument.

[patientz3ro]

There's so much wrong with that "article". To begin with, the "15 deaths" statistic is taken from another article published by the HSUS. Just as an example, one of these "giant constrictor deaths" was an immunocompromised patient who contracted salmonella from a tainted blood transfusion. The donor was a reptile keeper who had been treated for salmonella prior to donating blood. Incidentally, the keeper had other reptiles as well, and tracing the infection back to his snakes was based on fecal exams from one of his Boas. Had they tested feces from the rest of the collection, they would have found salmonella in every sample.

That's the beauty of editorial pieces. You don't have to cite any reference material. That's helpful when your only reference is a selectively researched bit of propaganda published by a disingenuous organization to which you're a member.

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[Bluebonnet Herp]

Just remember when you do things like this you represent the hobby.

"Bashing", while fun and stress relieving, won't win many people to our side of the argument.

I suppose I should have found a better word instead of "bashing"...
What I mean is just flood their comments in a mannerly fashion with educated and calm replies, and I can't be clear enough, nobody should be calling the author or any other ignoramuses a retard or doo-doo head.
Just a mob of honest, passionate commentators who are letting a well represented truth out.

[Bluebonnet Herp]

More ugly bias: http://www.komonews.com/news/nationa...237104271.html