Amitai Etzioni, whose blog you should have in your blogroll (because I say so! do not question me!) has discovered PETA's latest campaign. Obviously they weren't getting enough of a rise out of people with their other campaigns.
But seriously: of course they have an 800 number you can call to get the so-called statistics that prove their case. Perhaps someone will ask them why meat-eating populations didn't just die out ages ago, leaving us a race of happy, peaceful, hot-to-trot vegans. And the "people didn't eat as much meat then as now" argument won't wash -- if all meat is murder now, and bad and evil, it was the same then, right? Whatever -- I can't go any further in trying to understand the convoluted mental spasms that resemble thought in the minds of PETA activists.
Posted by Andrea Harris at April 9, 2003 12:46 PMHow can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
Posted by: RJT at April 9, 2003 at 01:28 PMThis is when I or someone ask the obligatory question: if we're not supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?
Posted by: David Jaroslav at April 9, 2003 at 02:28 PMThat does it. I've had it with the blind "Kingdom-ism" of PETA, vegans, vegetarians, and their animal-centric orientation. Are not plants beings, too? Do they not have life? We must end the tens of thousands of years of exploitation of other forms of life. I insist, nay, I demand that the government stop all other activity in favor of developing completely artificial, non-exploitive forms of alimentation. And now I'll just go splash some red paint in the produce section of my local Whole Foods.
Posted by: Jack at April 9, 2003 at 03:17 PMJack, to follow up on that in the spirit of this site, I just had a vision of Treebeard squashing an obnoxious vegan from PETA under heel.
Posted by: David Jaroslav at April 9, 2003 at 04:32 PMDon't the PETA people realize that on a body-count basis they are just as guilty as we omnivores? Think of all those poor defenseless bacteria! Who will stand up and call for PETA to commit hari-kiri out of shame at daily destroying thousands of these innocent lives?
Posted by: John Anderson at April 9, 2003 at 05:45 PMThis is such bullshit. I eat nothing but red meat (sometimes hacked, dripping, from the living animal itself) washed down with beer, and I am known far and wide as a love machine of such HUGE proportions that women worship me like a pagan god. I am like a honky Barry White. It is awesome to behold.
Posted by: David Gillies at April 10, 2003 at 08:42 PM