Fwd: [acb-chat] This is simply horrible....

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From: Carl Jarvis <carjar82@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 07:13:12 -0800
Subject: Re: [acb-chat] This is simply horrible....
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Cc: "Demaya, Diego" <Diego.Demaya@memorialhermann.org>

As horrific as this story is, the real tragedy is the indifference we
humans pay to such suffering that is caused by our own careless
treatment of our Planet Earth.
I must receive a dozen emails every day asking for help regarding one
animal or another, nearing extinction.
In addition, I receive as many posts telling of cruel and careless
treatment to both animal life and our environment.
Every year following hunting season, we take large garbage bags and
walk the back roads and trails around our beloved forest, picking up
the beer cans and whiskey jugs and fast food containers and other
trash that has been cast aside.
As a reformed Christian, now a practicing Agnostic, I think back to
those days we would gather on a Sunday morning in our House of Worship
and sing praise to He who had created everything. In those days I
thought of Earth as the Garden of Eden, and we humans were the Adams
and Eves, charged with the care of this beautiful garden. But I never
believed back then that we would take such poor care that we could
find ourselves being cast into Outer Darkness. But here we are.

Carl Jarvis



On 2/8/17, Demaya, Diego via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
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> "It wasn't like it was in just part of the stomach. It filled up the whole
> space."
> Mary Papenfuss Trends reporter, The Huffington Post
> </us/author/mary-s-papenfuss>
> [http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/58957cc825000034080b6dec.jpeg?cache=asgm8mwwxv]
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> University of Bergen
> Scientist reveals the plastic bags pulled from the intestines of a beached
> goose-beaked whale in Norway.
>
> A rare goose-beaked whale that repeatedly beached on a Norwegian shore was
> so ill that it had to be euthanized — and experts soon found out why. The
> 2-ton animal had about 30 plastic bags and other garbage packed in its
> stomach.
>
> There was "no food, only some remnants of a squid's head in addition to a
> thin fat layer," said University of Bergen zoologist Terje
> Lislevand<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.seattlepi.com_news_science_article_In-2DNorway-2Dzoologist-2Dfind-2D30-2Dplastic-2Dbags-2Din-2D10905578.php&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=pMZpNGUAbTZ9r5c1I8fhxyYP6ynz-R9Hx6NVRtodwzY&s=B2uj-Dizo2Uz6cJtJkG8Zzx2JzC1HjPvqL_GD4NepEk&e=>,
> according to The Associated Press.
>
> The 20-foot adult male whale had appeared several times in shallow waters
> off the island of Sotra, and personnel from both the fire department and the
> Department of Wildlife Conservation repeatedly attempted to herd or tow the
> animal back into the deep.
>
> The plastic — as well as candy wrappers, smaller bread bags and other
> garbage— was discovered during the necropsy, Norwegian public media NRK
> reported<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.tnp.no_norway_panorama_5450-2Dnorwegian-2Dwhale-2Dfound-2Doff-2Dthe-2Dwest-2Dcoast-2Dwith-2D30-2Dplastic-2Dbags-2Din-2Dits-2Dstomach&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=pMZpNGUAbTZ9r5c1I8fhxyYP6ynz-R9Hx6NVRtodwzY&s=-Rh5qpGwUTB2WYP3JnSElsC9vSJjMOsvkIRMnoH_RWI&e=>.
> Researchers believe the animal may have thought the bags were
> squid<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__news.sky.com_story_sick-2Dwhale-2Dfound-2Dto-2Dhave-2D30-2Dplastic-2Dbags-2Dblocking-2Dits-2Dstomach-2D10754077&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=pMZpNGUAbTZ9r5c1I8fhxyYP6ynz-R9Hx6NVRtodwzY&s=8-Hk6a7OwJHwsZlx9q8l9d7qXxaZfZ5hzfx59kYp7-Y&e=>
> it could eat, according to Sky News.
>
> "It wasn't like it was in just part of the stomach," Lislevand told Sky
> News. "It filled up the whole space. It's the explanation of why the animal
> acted so strange and stranded."
>
> Lislevand said he believes the animal was in serious pain for a long time.
>
> "I'm afraid to estimate how long it could have taken before his stomach was
> totally
> full<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.tnp.no_norway_panorama_5450-2Dnorwegian-2Dwhale-2Dfound-2Doff-2Dthe-2Dwest-2Dcoast-2Dwith-2D30-2Dplastic-2Dbags-2Din-2Dits-2Dstomach&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=pMZpNGUAbTZ9r5c1I8fhxyYP6ynz-R9Hx6NVRtodwzY&s=-Rh5qpGwUTB2WYP3JnSElsC9vSJjMOsvkIRMnoH_RWI&e=>,"
> he said. "In this case the plastic particles accumulated and created a
> barrier in the system."
>
> The goose-beaked whale, also known as a Cuvier's beaked whale, is the first
> to ever be found off the coast of Norway. The animal was just the latest of
> a mounting tally of victims claimed by plastic
> pollution<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_news_ocean-2Dplastic-2Dpollution_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=pMZpNGUAbTZ9r5c1I8fhxyYP6ynz-R9Hx6NVRtodwzY&s=43LuhHB9cch6a6MN_3_qZIS22mKCllfJIQPMwUQ_IpM&e=>
> of the ocean.
>
> Lislevand noted to the AP that United Nations estimates indicate that about
> 8 million tons of plastic trash are dumped into the ocean every year. A
> World Economic Forum
> study<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www3.weforum.org_docs_WEF-5FThe-5FNew-5FPlastics-5FEconomy.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=pMZpNGUAbTZ9r5c1I8fhxyYP6ynz-R9Hx6NVRtodwzY&s=OKfGpf65sB83bqAD643GvyeZS-JukkB6TjDZzQbzLog&e=>
> also found that there are currently at least 150 million tons of trash in
> the
> ocean<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.weforum.org_reports_the-2Dnew-2Dplastics-2Deconomy-2Drethinking-2Dthe-2Dfuture-2Dof-2Dplastics&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=pMZpNGUAbTZ9r5c1I8fhxyYP6ynz-R9Hx6NVRtodwzY&s=EbQfXThuMK8JcDCxWBRhbhOWFexlTHECOj8KniWwXfY&e=>,
> Norwegian public media NRK reported.
>
> A 2015 study by researchers at the University of California, Davis and
> Hasanuddin University in Indonesia found that one-quarter of fish sampled in
> fish
> markets<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ucdavis.edu_news_plastic-2Ddinner-2Dquarter-2Dfish-2Dsold-2Dmarkets-2Dcontain-2Dhuman-2Dmade-2Ddebris&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=pMZpNGUAbTZ9r5c1I8fhxyYP6ynz-R9Hx6NVRtodwzY&s=oQ69AUCYGPyujyHdEW01bJO-0y6Fcn71-4Z52sAXOmg&e=>
> in California and Indonesia had plastic or some other fibrous garbage in
> their bellies.
> [http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/58957d2b25000032080b6ded.jpeg]
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> University of Bergen
> Norwegian researchers examine the body of a goose-beaked whale that
> scientists believe was driven to beach by the pain and hunger of a belly
> full of plastic.
>
>
> http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58957a1de4b0c1284f262e91<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__m.huffpost.com_us_entry_us-5F58957a1de4b0c1284f262e91&d=DwMFaQ&c=cBOA5YEoZuz9KdLvh38YxdrPtfJt83ckXekfBgq5xB0&r=CK8oOj7-JYZnTDmB5orNTVZXar6NrsnGtGHfQ5m79Do&m=pMZpNGUAbTZ9r5c1I8fhxyYP6ynz-R9Hx6NVRtodwzY&s=7vsqV-vQzMX7uFy4kIoXa50HTB1nqoj4__tGk46-TgU&e=>
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