> From: Andrew <andrew at pcug.org.au>
> Organization: yabbyhaven.com
> Reply-To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:11:16 +1000
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] hybrids
>
> Hi Tsuh Yang,
>
> 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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> email: andrew at pcug.org.au
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