Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
My friend went all the way to Australia to find something capable of annoying me, and in the process insured my remaining a carnivore.
October 21, 2003 - 10:41AM
American animal rights protesters, one dressed in a sheep's costume, staged a noisy demonstration outside the Australian embassy in Washington DC to condemn Australia's treatment of sheep on the MV Cormo Express.
Chanting "Australia tortures animals. Stop live exports", about 30 members of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) were involved in the demonstration.
American PETA director Bruce Friedrich compared Australia's treatment of sheep to the human slave trade from Africa to America between the 17th and 19th centuries.
"The level of abuse the Australian government is supporting would shock the conscience of any compassionate person," Friedrich said.
"This ship of horrors brings shame on all of Australia. The live export trade is the moral equivalent of the African slave trade and it has to be eliminated."
Look. Leave the widerness alone. Don't club baby seals and don't drive mountain sheep to extinction. But those mutton factories are fucking crops, and I'm about as likely to worry about their fate as I am an ear of corn. And frankly, that goes for farm-bred mink as well.
If you PETA members REALLY want to get some publicity, stand in front of me while you compare my ancestors to fucking sub-anthropoid animals.The surgery required to get my foot out your ass will rival the separation of those join-at-the-head twins in complexity.
Posted by P6 at October 21, 2003 08:12 PM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2065