From: John Cuccia 

Like I said, Gary, you are foolish and short-sighted.

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:26:48 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:

>Yeah right.  Let them continue to be a blight on the use of waterways and a
>danger to pets, children and adults, just so some backwoods Cajun can make
>some beauty cream out of their parts.  We can have our cake and eat it too,
>with technology.  Hell we could probably grow the damn carcass cells in a
>lab, etc.  Screw 'em beauty cream or no.  Boots, not beauty cream, is or
>should be their destiny.
>
>Garymillennium and for some animals it hasn't happened soon enough.  So stop
>advocating interference with these natural processes and get on with the
>boot making.>
>
>
>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:8lujg11jpjlb6mja1cjdh71mlpt1efh5dm{at}4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:41:08 -0400, "Gary Britt"
>>  wrote:
>>
>> >Not the "Man" of today, and certain animals should
be hunted to
>extinction,
>> >especially at the time being referred to 150 years ago.  Alligators
>should
>> >be made extinct or at lest eliminated from this country except for an
>> >occasional zoo and boot factory.  That's just to name one where I would
>> >personally be happy to put the bullet in the brain of the last alive
>> >alligator on the face of the planet.
>>
>> That would be horrendously foolish and short-sighted:
>>
>>
>http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/112287759252170.
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>> Louisiana State University researchers are focusing on the swamp
>> critters' carcasses because they are prime sources of collagen, the
>> main protein of connective tissue, which also is responsible for
>> skin's elasticity. The collagen could be used for such diverse
>> products as skin creams; treatments for cancer, high blood pressure
>> and incontinence; artificial bone and cartilage; and skin grafts for
>> burn victims.
>>
>> The team has done a successful pilot program to get collagen from some
>> fish, and it has done some preliminary work on alligators using its
>> patented extraction process.
>>
>> "Collagen is the biggest building block of our bodies. It's in all our
>> parts," said Mark Schexnayder, a Metairie-based marine biologist with
>> the LSU AgCenter.
>>
>> Because it's natural, "your body can take that stuff and put it right
>> in instead of reprocessing it," he said.
>>
>>
>

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