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Oct. 30th, 2003 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyNewsweek has a little article this week on bear hunters in North Carolina, and how they've been luring bears using half-ton blocks of candy. Game wardens have been coming across gorging, blissed-out bears in sugar comas.
Half-ton.
Blocks.
Of candy.
For apparently candy factories compress their discarded product into huge cubes, and sell the cubes at a discount.
The factories say they're shocked, and will no longer sell these blocks to anyone suspected of being a bear hunter. Leaving who else for a customer base, exactly? Fairytale witches who want to build a two-story brownstone to lure Hansel and Gretel?
Half-ton.
Blocks.
Of candy.
For apparently candy factories compress their discarded product into huge cubes, and sell the cubes at a discount.
The factories say they're shocked, and will no longer sell these blocks to anyone suspected of being a bear hunter. Leaving who else for a customer base, exactly? Fairytale witches who want to build a two-story brownstone to lure Hansel and Gretel?
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Date: 2003-10-30 08:16 am (UTC)Reminds me of the naturalist couple that lived with bears in the Russian mountains to prove that bears didn't have to be dangerous. One summer they came back to find that all the bears they knew - and who had lost their fear of humans - had been killed by hunters who wanted their spleens for aphrodesiacs.
Capitalism makes the senseless make sense to the senseless.