What would Noah do?

Greenpeace activists build ark on Ararat
Jim Brown OneNewsNow.com May 25, 2007

An environmental group is under fire for using the account of Noah's Ark to try to bolster its claim that global warming will melt the poles and create floods of biblical proportions. Greenpeace International is constructing a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat in Turkey as "a warning to mankind to act now to prevent global warming." ...

I feel pretty confident that when Noah and his family built the ark, they had God's purpose in mind and it wasn't due to melting ice caps and polar bears stuck on drifting chunks of ice holding up a banners that read "HALP US ALGORE!"

God said "Build it!" - Noah asked "How high?"

And so God's will be done.

Today, we have a bunch of hippie retreads looking to push communist doctrine through junk science, fear mongering, and random acts of insanity.

Noah, on the other hand was preserving a needed commodity given to us by The Almighty so that man would continue to have proper dietary sustenance. MEAT!!! I'm also sure that after a hard day's work, those fellers building that big boat were just dying for good grub. You know, the kind of meal needed to keep up their strength during all that heavy construction.

...and that brings me to another interesting story I read today.

'Noah's Ark' of 5,000 rare animals found floating off the coast of China

· Cargo of abandoned vessel destined for restaurants
· Illegal trade drives species closer to extinction
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Saturday May 26, 2007

Guardian
Endangered, hunted, smuggled and now abandoned, 5,000 of the world's rarest animals have been found drifting in a deserted boat near the coast of China.

The pangolins, Asian giant turtles and lizards were crushed inside crates on a rickety wooden vessel that had lost engine power off Qingzhou island in the southern province of Guangdong. Most were alive, though the cargo also contained 21 bear paws wrapped in newspaper.

According to conservation groups, the haul was discovered on one of the world's most lucrative and destructive smuggling routes: from the threatened jungles of south-east Asia to the restaurant tables of southern China.

The animals were found when local fishermen noticed a strange smell emanating from the vessel, which did not have any registration plates, on Tuesday, the Guangzhou Daily reported.

When coastguard officials boarded the 25-metre craft, it was reportedly deserted and stripped of identification papers. They found more than 200 crates full of animals, many so dehydrated in the tropical sun that they were close to death.

The animals - which weighed 13 tonnes - were taken to port, doused with water and sent to an animal welfare centre. "We have received some animals," said an office worker at the Guangdong Wild Animal Protection Centre. "We are waiting to hear from the authorities what we should do with them."

According to the local media, the cargo included 31 pangolins, 44 leatherback turtles, 2,720 monitor lizards, 1,130 Brazilian turtles as well as the bear paws. Photographs showed other animals, including an Asian giant turtle.

All of these south-east Asian species are critically endangered, banned from international trade and yet openly sold in restaurants and markets in China's southern province of Guangdong, which is famous for its exotic cuisine. ...

The way I see it, there's gonna be some folks
mighty pissed off that their exotic BBQ just got canceled...
and I loves a good BBQ!!!





Now I don't know 'bout y'all,
but I Like the PETA* Boat Mo Betta!
*People for Eating Tasty Animals