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[no_eyes_face]

PETA used to freak me out a little. It has a bad rep due to some people making poor decisions, but really you just have to keep your fanaticism filters on.

I dare you to get a minute through this video, which is probably one of the most grotesque things I've ever seen. Not for the... uh... faint of heart

Comments

[diabetitron]

I could barely watch the whole thing...that was disgusting.

I don't think eating meat is wrong either, it's perfectly normal to do so, but factory farming is just sick.

[hawthornhaze]

I am disgusted that people would ever arrive at this point. I am disgusted that the world would come to this. I am disgusted that the culture of which I am a part has helped bring about this mode of existence. If only people could see! If only we could bring happiness and comradeship and care and love into our lives... I am so sad to be a part of this time. I am so sad to see these days in which we live. If only people would remember the free, beauftiful, peaceful worlds from which they came in their youth! From which we all came in this world, this joyous bright world all around us in this universe!

[no_eyes_face]

It isn't "these days"; it has always been this way. Being a living, ethically conscious organism is problematic if you don't have the example of any other living, ethically conscious organisms to base your choices upon. We are working blind.

[hawthornhaze]

Well, I suppose the video recalled other issues for me - issues which didn't exist in the past, like superhighways and skyscrapers and machine guns and televisions and dollar bills and all that good stuff infringing upon the quality of our lives every day. Not that there was some ideal point in time; I guess I was ranting more about an ideal world which exists in all of us (the past or our youth being a metaphor for a time when we were "innocent"). I just project that idealism onto the past because I am a romantic. But I guess you're right. We can't reach that ideal place until our here-and-now problems are solved

[no_eyes_face]

That is odd, but at the same time, not surprising. PETA is corruptly misrepresenting their intentions (of what they do with the animals they take in), and the writer doesn't know anything about the way animal shelters operate. There are too many fucking domestic animals for the world to take care of, and consequently, some die. But it IS more humane to euthanise animals rather than to let them be shot or starve in a backyard. And the efforts of animal shelters haven't been in vain; when I was volunteering at the one here in SLO, I found out that they almost never put animals down anymore, unless they're sick or something to that effect. Not long ago they had to kill thousands a year.

Then again, it somehow becomes different when it's overcrowded homeless shelters. Some might analogize that we wouldn't neuter or lethally inject people just because they're in excess. Actually, nevermind... I just realized why that comparison is a fallacy.