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ment's policy to protect a Specific profit motive at the expense of the 

 total morality, but rather we are even willing to possibly give up a 

 particular source of profit for a particular small company or a par- 

 ticular small group of people in order to really live by the concepts that 

 this country was founded on." 



We are really willing, if I may use a colloquial phrase, we are really 

 willing to put our money where our mouth is. 



This is the kind of thing that young people can get behind, can un- 

 derstand, because butchering animals to have somebody put on a seal- 

 skin coat cannot be justified by any young person or thinking older 

 person, their sense of morality if he at all believes in the Judeo-Chris- 

 tian ethic. 



We wonder, we look at the newspapers and see the butchery, and 

 in the Harrison, N.Y., zoo, the children's zoo, a few days ago, what 

 did these children do ? They are now in Grasslands undergoing psy- 

 chiatric examination. But, if you were to talk to them and ask them for 

 the defense of their action, I wonder if you could really argue with 

 them that they are wrong. 



WTiat they said is this — or what they could say if I were their at- 

 torney or their psychologist ; I would say it like this : 



It was okay for us to trap the muskrat and trap squirrels and other small 

 animals because, after all, our parents shoot them and trap them and kill them. 

 We are just trapping and killing. Nobody bothered us about it. We kill the wood- 

 chuck all the time. 



So, -wliat we did, we felt like doing something else, and we went into the zoo 

 and we hacked up 11 rabbits and some pigeons and some chickens, and we took 

 our tokens, you know, the rabbit ears, and the various other parts of the animals, 

 and we wear them as our badges in the same way as our adult models have 

 animals heads on the mantle and wear fur coats as a status symbol, and spend 

 thousands of dollar^, and say, look, I, too, symbolize an animal that was 

 butchered. 



Gentlemen, this may be rough to accept, but the morality is no 

 different. 



Psychologically, I can tell you, and I will stake my reputation on 

 the fact, that psychologically there is no way to separate the two 

 moralities. 



There is no difference in butchering seals or in butchering rabbits in 

 a zoo, or butchering people. There is really no moral distinction that 

 can be drawn and no ability that anyone can bring to psychologically 

 draw that distinction. 



So, to say that these children were horrible, and they were, and they 

 were absolutely horrible, and please do not misunderstand me, but to 

 say these children were horrible and need psychiatric treatment, be- 

 cause of what they did in the Harrison, N.Y., children's zoo, if you 

 are going to say that, you have got to say that it is equally horrible, 

 equally immoral, equally illegal, equally psychologically and morally 

 destructive to butcher helpless seals in the islands, not the oceans. 

 There is no distinction. 



You are taking about atrocity, you are talking about the lust to kill, 

 you are talking about man over animals and the right to sway over 

 the animals. 



If you try to separate and make these distinctions, you are only going 

 to further alienate our youth. 



I say to you, and I do not want to prolong this because I know there 

 are other witnesses who can talk much longer and much more knowl- 



