Re: House Call

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

On Aug 21, at 10:48 PM, Robert Holmgren wrote:
** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey"
 on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:28:53 -0400



Umm... I'm stumped -- what is the old cliché about teaching
someone to fish?
Here are the first three paragraphs of something I published a few
years ago. I particularly like the subtle 'muddle' pun.
Old saws need sharpening. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish--and he'll decimate the marine populations, farm-
raise inferior and unhealthful fish, pollute land and water, and
destroy coastal ecosystems. Oh yes, and he'll create export commodity
bubbles in poor communities across the world.
Not pithy, this sharp new saw. Just as there's nothing pithy about
the complicated muddle that we, the hopeful consumers of fresh fish,
face staring down at the fish-laden beds of crushed ice at the local
seafood counter.

What's the muddle?

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David Auerbach
Department of Philosophy & Religion
Box 8103
NCSU
Raleigh, NC 27695-8103