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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: 20 Feb 2025 00:40:03 -0000
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>The USA (or predecessor colonies) took out the buffalo (well, nearly)
>and the passenger pigeon (permanently), but the DoDo and others were
>the responsibility of others.

I don't feel bad about the dodo, which apparently tasted fishy and greasy,
but the passenger pigeon was absolutely delicious we are told.  And I will
never have the opportunity to eat mammoth, sadly.

Howard Waldrop's _The Ugly Chickens_ is one of the best SF stories ever
written but is not historically accurate regarding the flavour of dodo.

>IOW, this is /not/ "particular about Americans". At least, not when
>historical events are listed.

God may have given us dominion over the earth and the seas but that does 
not seem to me to be a license to just wreck it all.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."