Just my opinion, but I think that you may be missing the point here...
Goldfish, regardless of breed, are all of the one species. Common
domestic Cats, regardless of breed, are all of the one species. Dogs,
regardless of breed, are all of the one species (barring those wolf
hybrids, but I may be wrong there). It is not about "normality" or other
moral issues, such as whether it is right to breed something that can't
breath properly or has to eat through a straw.
Harro's point is about out-and-out fraud: people selling fish as a given
species when they are not that species.
Here in Australia they might be in breach of our devalued consumer
protection laws, I really couldn't say, a couple of units of law at Uni
do not a lawyer make :) But I think that the basic principle might
still apply - if I advertise a good or service, then I should be
supplying that good or service. Not something that might have looked
like its grandmother.
Commercial hybridisers who misrepresent or manufacture species do the
hobby a dis-service - they devalue the ordinary rainbowfish that we seek
to promote.
Cheers, Andrew
Piabinha at aol.com wrote:
> harro, what about goldfish? what about all those deformed dog and cat
> breeds? you can't tell me dogs with legs shorter than normal (dachsunds) or
> skinny bodies (russian hounds) are normal too...
>
> tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA
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