On October 31, 2007, PETA announced they received enough signatures to get on ballots in every State in the 2008 US Federal election. They fielded 100 candidates for Senate and 532 for the House. PETA — who had been secretly drilling for oil in Alaska and had enough money to cover the Statue of Liberty in 1000 dollar bills — hired a top notch campaign staff, composed of such notables as Karl Rove, Rupert Murdock, Pat Sajak, Barry Bonds and Noam Chomsky.
This PETA campaign staff utilized fear tactics:
- exclaiming the evils of eating meat as murderous, environmentally unsustainable, and cancerous
- posting campaign signs with photographs of giraffes nibbling on human babies wearing Republican and Democrat diapers
- stating in a national press conference that the obvious, logical step and ultimate dogmatic goal of Neocons and the Democrat National Committee is cannibalism.
PETA did well in these elections, beating Democrats and Republicans for 58 Senate seats and 293 House seats.
Over the next four years, the new political majority proceeded to enact laws that banned meat eating in America. Soon after, a worldwide ban was enacted by the United Nations.
20 years later.
In a Rapid City middle school history class, underweight eleven year old Sharon Nyes learned that humans used to eat meat. It was listed under the heading, “Evils of World History”, ranking second place between Christianity and the World Bank [see the movie Zeitgeist], ahead of Nazism and capitalism.
Sharon had never heard of eating meat. She knew she was supposed to be terrified, but for some reason her mouth began to water. On her way home, she slumped to the ground, victimized by the recurring images of that day’s lesson and the hungry growling in her stomach.
“What am I becoming? My God, what am I becoming?” she wept.
A week later, she was crouched over a flying electric car air-road killed condor, looking at the bright colors of entrails.
Her palms clammy, and her mouth watering.
As she ellipsed her mouth for a bite, the thought police — who embed microchips in all humans brains during the second trimester — arrested her on the spot. She was executed ten minutes later at 6:42am, March 18th, 2028.
That afternoon, PETA officials — who had succumbed to the scrumptious pleasures of unadulterated power — enjoyed a Thai delicacy that evening: coconut curried fresh girl with basil and pine nuts.
September 26, 2007 at 5:34 pm
what was I thinking when I wrote that?
October 4, 2007 at 12:51 pm
yuh-huh, PETA is pretty shady. however, I’m not sure that pine nuts would really go with Thai curried girl… my impulse is to go for peanuts of course, but it really depends on if we’re talking Panang or Massamun. But then, who knows where American-Thai cooking will be in 30 years? Pad Thai with spicy buffalo sauce and blue cheese anyone?
September 23, 2009 at 1:36 pm
A ban on meat consumption would be great.
Ban all murder or no murder.
Why would you have the right to eat my friends and I don’t have the right to eat yours?
September 27, 2009 at 6:42 am
What are the ethics involved in eating meat?
What questions should we ask when confronted by eating animals?
1) where did it come from?
2) what pain and torture did this animal endure?
3) what environmental toll was exacted through its raising to be slaughtered?
4) what food could have been produced rather than this living animal that would mean more resources for other hungry people on the planet?
5) how far can one’s consumption go without community criticism?
I am not judging people who eat meat. Why? Because I’m not a hypocrite and I still eat meat. However, the crisis is real. These are just a few of the questions that meat brings up for me and I know that there are few ethical answers that I can feel good about coming from them.
What is the meat industry giving us? What solutions can we find to end unnecessary pain and killing, lessen environmental impact, and make a world where access to healthy sustainable diet is universal?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSxhdUXOis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWWNLvgU4MI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv3uU2YY6pM&feature=related