Re: Cologne, Germany

John Atkinson wrote:

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

Leslie Danks wrote:

Helmut Richter wrote:

[...]

"keulen" as a verb used to mean "slay with a club" but is now obsolete.
I assume this is also where the use as "mass slaughter of contaminated
animals" comes from.

Keulen meaning to "collect up and kill" is still used in the veterinary
sector (for example: http://tinyurl.com/e65na). Also, young seals are
"culled" every year off the coast of Canada. In this case the animals are
not contaminated. The chosen technique is to club them to death, but
perhaps that is a coincidence.

No, culling a herd means reducing the number (perhaps because you don't
have enough resources to support them all). Baby seals aren't culled,
they're hunted for their fur.

Well, the people who carry out the operation say they're culling them.
(Those pesky seals breed like mad and eat up all our fish, doncha know.)

And the huge profits from selling the pelts to furriers is just an extra
added free bonus ...
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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