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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Peta is the best satirical and performance art theater we have and it's free.
Let's give credit where it's due. These are fun people. No one in their right mine would take them seriously.
Oops, I'm running late, time for some bacon and eggs, I have to take the SLK to the garage and get the oil changed.
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People should wake up to the fact that population growth has to be controlled. Of course it is very controversial because of religious views of many. But even among the religious ones I think those welcoming and trying to speed up the rupture are in minority. Most of people should be quite open to the idea to improve (or preserve) quality of life for their offspring and henceforth. How about trying to limit maximum number of children to four? That would work actually. Such a pity that religious types will be rioting about limiting their right to consume the planet and about (oh horror!) contraception. Is there a light in the end of this tunnel? Maybe UN could step in and tie in more help to poorest countries if they subscribe to contraception campaign? It is basically a win win situation, with poverty, maternal deaths and population growth going down. Too bad no one has balls and opportunity to do that.
It's obvious.
If you eat meat, particularly herbivores, it's a win-win situation.
1. The animal you eat dies. It no longer breathes O2 and spews CO2 into the atmosphere.
2. The plants that the animal would have eaten continue to live. They continue convert the earth destroying CO2 back into O2.
Vegetarians cause global warming.
Where's my Nobel?
A Hummer? I did read that correctly, didn't I? PETA people put their banner on a Hummer first, and then a truck, right? And they drove them... in traffic?
I'm sure I'll read the rest of the article right after I stop laughing hysterically.
A vegetarian lifestyle is undoubtedly the best thing from both a moral and a "save the world" perspective. PETA is right about that.
Unfortunately, PETA long ago jumped over the top in the same way that direct action environmental groups, anti-abortion protesters, and forced-outing gay activists did. Their message is either completely lost due to their outrageous tactics, or they are completely tuned out as a lunatic fringe, even by hardcore socially left-wing types like myself.
So PETA can rant and rave all they want, but it won't matter, because very few folks either listen, or take them seriously. Which is a shame, because the ultimate message is the right one.
It probably depends on what's added to the calculation. There are many hidden environmental costs in meat production. I didn't see any mention of the vast amounts of fossil used to grow industrial feed corn or to cart animals from pasture to feedlot to slaughterhouse to grocery store.
"...an erstwhile PETA member, says, 'I wouldn't look to PETA for science.'" This has risen to the top of my daily "no shit" comment list. (Or "no manure and nasty methane," if you like.) PETA faces a marketing choice similar to that of toothpaste manufacturers and sports agents: best to make exaggerated and even counter-factual statements in order to impress, or best to stick to the facts in order to preserve integrity? PETA, obviously, opts for the former. "Number one cause of global warming!" is more memorable than "meat consumption is the cause of 6% of America's carbon emissions!" regardless of whether it's true. And being memorable is the primary goal of all PETA campaigns.
But there's an ideological point at work that also deserves observation. Let us imagine that meat consumption actually reduced global warming and that a vegan diet increased it. PETA would still advocate veganism because their principles are not fundamentally about the environment or even good health. Rather, they accord other sentient life equal value to human life and cannot, therefore, admit to a middle ground. It is a position much closer to religion than science, and it's a shame because it means that all of the exposure PETA generates will always remain fringe. If, for example, they took the chicken idea and ran with it--"Eat white, not red!"--they might have a greater affect. But they can't do that. Chickens have the same rights as cows and thus it's vegan or nothing.
I admire some of what PETA does, and I admire much of what a whole lot of others do to combat what ails this planet, but it seems no one has noticed the 500 lb elephant in the room: human overpopulation. Therefore, I respectfully suggest that the best way to arrest the decline of this, our home, is to stop freaking producing more and more little-mes, who in turn will demand their own acreage for food production, including animals, and who will just add to the total BS our species produces every day.
But resisting the urge to clone ourselves is only one, slow step. To really speed up the process of returning Earth to itself we should immediately legislate that all burger joints henceforth use only human meat in their products. That way, we can have our Jake and eat him, too, and at the same time bring the Earth's human population down to a manageable level.
This proposal merits your serious consideration.
Are Douglas Moran and I the only ones who picked up the Hummer reference? For all sorts of medical reasons I need to get my protein from animals, but even if I didn't I'd still be a meat eater. It may be a vice but it's my vice (much like PETA's need for a Hummer). I accept the fact that I am part of the problem and will be until the smoke clears from my cremation. That doesn't excuse me from trying to make a differance BUT it does excuse me from self righteous indignation.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
