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Pope calls couples who choose pets over having children ‘selfish’

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5 January 2022
12:52 CET

Pope Francis risked the ire of the world's childless dog and cat owners Wednesday, suggesting people who substitute pets for kids exhibit "a certain selfishness".
Speaking on parenthood during a general audience at the Vatican, Francis lamented that pets “sometimes take the place of children” in society.

“Today… we see a form of selfishness,” said the pope. “We see that some people do not want to have a child.

“Sometimes they have one, and that’s it, but they have dogs and cats that take the place of children. This may make people laugh but it is a reality.”

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Mấy bữa nay trời lạnh (cỡ ngón cái thôi) bị hắt xì hoài nên cứ tưởng là dính corona nhưng hoá ra là bị bác Francis nhắc tên.

Người Mỹ có câu “the pot calling the kettle black” nhưng tới giờ có thể sửa lại thành “the pope calling the kidless black”. Ổng đi tu tức là cũng đâu có con tại vì muốn có hai pets: Chúa và Giáo hội, God and Church.

Giáo dân hỏi: Siri, why is the pope childless?

Siri chép miệng: Because he’s selfish.

Giáo dân rủa thầm: Bye (pope).

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Muốn nói ngoa làm cha mà nói. (Tục ngữ)

pet owners react to pope’s remarks on animals and children
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-and-children

Pet owners have reacted angrily to the comments, made during a general audience at the Vatican. They argue that animals have a lower environmental footprint than children, enable them to lead a life that is different but equally rewarding, and compensate for financial or biological difficulties in having children, rather than directly replacing them.

On social media, people pointed out that the pope himself chose not to have children and said there was hypocrisy in such comments, coming from an institution which has grappled with a legacy of child sexual abuse.

Trong lịch sử Việt nam cũng có nhiều người nổi tiếng không có con, ví dụ như Thánh Gióng, Hai bà Trưng và một bà Triệu... Ai dám chê mấy nhân vật đó?

Tưởng tượng Nguyễn Du viết Truyện Kim Vân Ký về Thúy Vân lấy chồng, đẻ con, trồng rau, nuôi gà... thay vì kể chuyện Thúy Kiều. Ai thèm coi?

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Đương khi bất ý ỷ y
Hùm thiêng gặp cúm cô vi cũng phiền
(Đoạn trường thú thanh)

Snow leopard at Illinois zoo dies after contracting Covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...9-illinois-zoo

Miller Park Zoo announced the death of Rilu, 11, which the zoo previously said “began coughing and had a raspy respiration beginning on 20 November”, in an Instagram post on Thursday.

In December, three snow leopards at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska died of complications from Covid-19. Two Sumatran tigers recovered.

In July, zoos in Oakland and Denver announced they would start vaccinating tigers, bears and other mammals with a two-dose vaccine first administered in March to gorillas in San Diego.

Zoetis, a New Jersey animal health company, has said it has donated more than 11,000 vaccine doses to almost 70 zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, as part of an effort authorised by the US Department of Agriculture.

Chỉ ngang mũi chích vào nghìn hang beo…
(Chích thú ngâm)

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Cứu nhân nhân trả chuối:

Hero rat dies in Cambodia after stellar career
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/landmine-hunting-hero-rat-dies-in-cambodia-after-stellar-career

Magawa, a giant African pouched rat originally from Tanzania, helped clear mines from about 225,000 square metres of land – the equivalent of 42 football pitches – over the course of his career.After detecting more than 100 landmines and other explosives, Magawa retired in June last year.

Apopo trained Magawa to detect the chemical compounds in explosives by rewarding him with tasty treats – his favourites being bananas and peanuts.

In September 2020, the rodent won the animal equivalent of Britain’s highest civilian honour for bravery because of his uncanny knack for uncovering landmines and unexploded ordnance.

​Three Cambodian deminers were killed on Monday by anti-tank landmines that exploded as they tried to remove them, just 20 minutes after a man burning vegetation on his farm was killed by war-era ordnance in the same village.

Khen cho cái mũi tinh đời
Bom mìn đoán giữa trần ai mới già
(Đạn trường tân thanh)

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Cừu đội lốt sói:

The brutal world of sheep fighting
https://www.theguardian.com/news/201...ngry-young-men

Professional trainers toughen their sheep by chaining their horns to a wall: as they pull and twist to break away, the resistance thickens their sinewy necks.

The sheep are given names that inspire fear, like Rambo, Jaws or Lawyer. In the third round of one recent match, Hitler delivered a brutal defeat to Saddam.

The Algerian government’s toleration of sheep fighting is a tacit acknowledgement that outlets for male aggression are needed. “Letting these guys have their fun reduces violence in other contexts,” said Youcef Krache, a photographer from Algiers who has spent years documenting sheep fights. “Authorities prefer they get swept up in spectacles rather than politics.”

Hãy khôn ngoan như con rắn và hiền lành như con cừu. (Matthew 10:16.5)

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Lòng lang dạ sói:

Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-population-eu

Hunters in Sweden have already shot dead most of their annual target of 27 wolves, while Finland is to authorise the killing of 20 wolves in its first “population management cull” for seven years.

Norway will kill about 60% of its wolves this winter – 51 animals – to maintain a maximum of just three breeding pairs in the country, with its population including animals living between Sweden and Norway limited to four to six breeding pairs.

Conservationists accuse Nordic nations of creating the most hostile environment for wolves in western Europe and flouting EU laws that protect the species, which has made a comeback in recent years but remains endangered in many countries.

Từ bắc Âu châu tay cầm súng săn
Tay kia cầm sợi dây để bắt con cầy…
(Trịnh công săn)

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Tôm Đức: Berlin lobster

what do you do with an invasive army of crayfish
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ish-clones-aoe

The marbled crayfish was first recognised in 1995, when a biology student bought a bag of crayfish – sold to him as “Texas crayfish” – from American traders at a pet fair in Frankfurt.

After becoming a burden to their new owner due to their inexplicably rapid rate of reproduction, he distributed them to friends who, in turn, dumped them in rivers, lakes and toilets, from where they spread rapidly, throughout Germany, much of mainland Europe and most profusely, the island of Madagascar, home to unique but extremely delicate freshwater ecosystems.

In Germany, where the marbled crayfish have invaded lakes and rivers, authorities have adopted a strict approach to them.

“In one year alone, I caught 42,000 of them. I was seen as a bit of a saviour, even if I say it myself,” he says. He could get €13 per kg of swamp crayfish, and received a €7 top-up from the senate. Berlin restaurants snapped up the crustaceans, serving them up to diners as the novel “Berlin lobster”.

Con tôm uống với rượu bầu
Chồng ăn vợ húp gật đầu khen ngon
(Ca dao)

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Tôm Đức: Berlin lobster

‘The more we eat, the better’

Con này mà ăn gì trời, tuyền là vỏ không hà. Giống phía bên cua, có con "ba khía" về miền Tây ở Việt Nam. Tụi mình hay đùa, ba khía là bia khá. Cầm lên mút mút, uống bia chớ chẳng có gì để ăn.

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Calif-ô-nha: Quạ vô đơn chí

Crow-plagued California city
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...unnyvale-palo-

Each night, more than a thousand crows descend on Sunnyvale, California. In recent years a growing contingency of corvids have been roosting in the Silicon Valley town’s downtown district, filling the night air with a chorus of caws and painting the roads, Pollock-esque, with droppings.

“If we could just reason with crows, and tell them to spread out a bit more, that would be fantastic,” Klein said.

Swift notes that crows have few negative effects on other bird populations, and can even form bonds with humans. Put a couple of peanuts out for them on your porch occasionally, and they’ll remember you and come by again and again. “They’ll bring their mates by, and their offspring,” she said. “There’s a real bond that can happen.”

Shani Kleinhaus of the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society encourages residents to appreciate their beauty.

“In the evening, when they get moving, they create these rivers of flight across the sunset. It’s beautiful. It’s exciting,” she said. “While they are here, why not celebrate them?”

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