I've been thinking about PETA alot lately, I posted about them the other day for their campaign to raise awareness that vegetarians make better lovers by having pretty people making out on a mattress in public in very little clothing.
An interesting marketing concept but I feel that the message, that meat is bad, is lost in the hoopla.
Anyway, PETA is the liberal corrolary of the NRA. They are single issue, single minded, intolerant, shout-the-opposition-down, hypocrits who have lost any capability to reason, compromise or discuss in anything but absolutes, their desires.
And what does PETA desire? Well, the easy one is that no one ever eat meat again. Um, good luck with that. The second and less well known aim of PETA is to "liberate" all of the animals being kept as pets. Read that again slowly to let it sink in, PETA wants you to set your pets free. Regardless of whether your cats, dogs, rats, ferrets or snakes WANT to be free, PETA wants you to release them into the wild.
Which is a pretty ridiculous thing to consider or do and is, upon closer examination, incredibly arrogant and stupid. What good would come of turning out millions of pets into the wilderness? We would have an incredible spike in the predatory population as all those domesticated pets would be killed and eaten. What a great solution, PETA. Just have all the pets killed, that'll solve the animal exploitation in the universe.
Oh yeah, the NRA has Wayne LaPierre as their leader, a ham handed nimrod who comes across like one of those people that stroke their rifle barrels in a mock mastubatory fashion (ala Full Metal Jacket). PETA has Ingrid Newkirk, a woman who would be DEAD without insulin, developed by experimentation on animals, but shrugs that fact off as her living and fighting for animals rights is more important any little hypocrisy on her part.
Here are two quotes from her: "Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal."
"When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy."
Let's take each in turn. Meat isn't the antibiotic and pesticide-laden corpse that she makes it out to be. It would be easy to say the same thing of a parnsip or a cucumber, it has been farmed for the sole purpose of being eaten, how is that not torture, how is using pesticides on vegetables somehow better than trying to bring the healthiest meat product to market? Tortured animal is a subjective term, it can be argued that existence is torture so that we are all tortured. But it can also be reasoned that a cow living a decent life safe from predators, able to reproduce, able to eat grass and live a reasonably fulfilling life for a cow isn't torture at all. I think I'll recognize Ingrid for what she is: an angry single issue hater who intends to impose her views on the world, regardless of their merit and consequences. I will recognize Ingrid Newkirk as a tortured and hate filled hypocrit who has found her stage for international attention.
The second quote is even easier to break apart. Rats, pigs and dogs are not children, they are not human, they are animals, they don't possess the capacity to fear the future, they don't possess the capacity to remember the vast majority of the past, they don't argue and debate for their freedom, they live, they eat (other animals when they can, is that wrong, Ingrid?), they die, sometimes we eat them. Humans are a part of the animal kingdom, humans are a part of the food chain, humans rose up amid the other animals precisely BECAUSE we were able to hunt and eat meat which is a highly concentrated energy source. Look at our dentition, look at our bodies, look at our ancestors, look at the sum of human history. WE EAT MEAT. Ingrid and PETA wants to overturn millions of years of evolution, they want to overturn the very reason our species ascended because it offends their morals. Those morals that they wouldn't have and our species wouldn't be who and what we are today without that meat in our diets.
At least the NRA has the second amendment to point at as a reason for their arguments. Sure, the 2nd Amendment has been interpreted by different people for their own ends. But at least they have something to base their stand on. PETA's stand is based on personal decisions to not eat meat and then finding a justification for imposing those beliefs on others. Sorry Ingrid, but you don't get to tell me how to live, just like I don't get to tell you how to live. You may be completely and utterly convinced of the rightness of your argument but that doesn't, in and of itself, make it right.
Because, if that were the case, then abortion would be illegal and we'd all be whatever religion our current president is. And guess what? That ain't my America and anytime someone TELLS me how to live is the easiest way to get me to do the opposite.
Impose not your issues upon me.
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