[Taxacom] cute condom promotion

[Jason Mate]

It is a Prokaryote world. We just live in it. :b

> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:11:34 -0400
> From: tim.dickinson at utoronto.ca
> To: center at biologicaldiversity.org
> CC: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: [Taxacom] cute condom promotion
> 
> as per comment below, it shows a rather striking and unfortunate kingom 
> prejudice to front your condom campaign exclusively with animals. no 
> matter how cute and charismatic these organisms are, they depend on 
> habitats, and those ecosystems comprise plants and fungi as well, in 
> fact depend on plants and fungi for their functioning.  ---tad.
> 
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: Appropriateness of images of cooking organisms
> Date: 	Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:20:07 -0400
> From: 	Tim Dickinson <tim.dickinson at utoronto.ca>
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> 
> but boiling peas (embryo plants), popcorn (ditto), or any plant parts 
> cooked in hot oil are ok? i appreciate that there is a real concern 
> here, but at the same time feeding humans (and encouraging globally 
> responsible human reproduction and resource consumption) is as important 
> as alerting people to the cuddliness of some, but not necessarily all, 
> species.
> 
> maybe there should be a reality check button on pages with such images, 
> where human beastliness to other humans and other species can be used to 
> provide some kind of context for scientifically valid images of game 
> preparation, predation, etc.
> 
> ---tad.
> 
> 
> Tanya Dewey wrote:
> > It would be great if there were ways to tag images to filter their display. Images of dead animals might be very useful (tagging a prey item that is being eaten/taken by a predator, for example) - but these may be upsetting and would likely result in similar kinds of comments from users. It may be especially upsetting for children.
> >
> > Also, images of specimens, etc. are useful but you might not want them to appear alongside images of live animals.
> >
> > Tagging might allow you to filter displays of images in a useful way for users also, if a user was interested in only seeing live animals or only seeing instances where something is being preyed on, etc.
> >
> > Tanya
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cynthia Parr" <parrc at si.edu>
> > To: eol-beta-curators at googlegroups.com
> > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 7:00:13 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> > Subject: Appropriateness of images of cooking organisms
> >
> > We just had a comment from a user that there were images of cooking quail on our pages, and these were inappropriate. 
> >
> >
> > What do you think? On the one hand, it is nearly impossible to be sure that skinned birds are the species that they are claimed to be, in any case. On the other hand, one could argue that EOL should not deny the fact that people prepare organisms to eat and that images of the preparation might be informative in some way. 
> >
> >
> > Interested in your thoughts. 
> > Cyndy 
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> > Cynthia Sims Parr, parrc at si.edu 
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