Eat an animal for PETA day
Meryl has the great idea of eating an animal in celebration of PETA’s offensive pro-animal ads. One of her readers suggests that eating only 1 animal is not enough:
“There are three meals in a day, plus snacks, You should be suggesting everyone eat THREE animals on March 15, maybe more.”
To top it off, there’s this anti-PETA Canadian billboard:
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Elliott: If you were going to post this, the least you could do is provide a link to the “offensive pro-animal ads”, so we could judge for ourselves.
There’s been big controversy here at Cornell over activists who show those ads in public areas around Cornell. Most people are comfortable eating animals but not seeing them butchered. Of course, note that I post this tongue-in-cheek in the humour category–don’t take it seriously.
Here are some links to PETA ad controversy:
Thanks for the links Elliott. That helps me understand what all the fuss is about. I think people are reacting because they feel guilty, frankly. Nobody wants to hear about what they could be doing better, me included.
As a Jew who lost numerous relatives in the Holocaust, PETA’s demonstration doesn’t bother me one bit. Then again, I’m a vegetarian, so obviously they’re just singing my tune. The demonstration probably would bother my mom. I’ll have to ask her.
I just wrote a column about how human kind’s propensity to draw lines of distinction between “us” and “them” starts with eating some animals and extends to all sorts of other societal and global ills.
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/03.16.05/dining-0511.html
Once we get desensitized to the pain and suffering of some living creatures, it’s bound to make it easier to observe other instances of pain and suffering. It’s like how the military trains soldiers to think of the enemy as something less than human. Otherwise, how could they kill them?
Sorry to move this out of the humor category, but it’s not like I found the original post that funny
Haha… lol.. that pic is so going up on my site tommorow…
mmmm…
Interesting idea. I have to, of course, take a slightly different approach, Elisa. In the sense that animals are entities in the same right as humans, I say no. The lines between us and them are distinct for a reason–namely sentience, rationality, tool use, abstraction, etc. Obviously this does not apply across the board to all animals, but allow the point, at least for lower animals. Thus, we eat them.
However, there is one thing we have in common, and that is a nervous system that reacts to pain and emotion. Animals deserve, at the least, clean deaths and decent living conditions–an aim of PETA that I support.
We certainly wouldn’t eat someone who was in a vegetative state or in end-stage Alzheimers or severely intellectually impaired…so the majority of people actually draw their distinction not related to actual “sentience, rationality, tool use, abstraction, etc” but rather the potential of that or historical demonstration of that. So it’s a convenient distinction, more than logical.
But, I’m sincerely glad you support humane treatment…that is an important goal.
haha i love it!
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=grill
blah to much hypocrisy