Sunday, October 05, 2008
You People Are SICK
I really hate it when you support a cause but many others who support the same cause are certifiable lunatics making you look bad. As time goes on, the people at work are starting to realize I’m not a nutcase and that when I say I support this cause, I DO understand the good and the bad.
I am all about animal welfare. I’ve said it on here before and I’m saying it again. As I said, people at work know that I am and when something has to happen, they now, with respect, ask me if I understand why said thing has to be done. I’m not blinded by the emotion. I understand that some people seriously mistreat animals and those people should be given harsh sentences when caught just as much as I understand that we need animals. Our bodies are set up to consume animal products. FACT. Unfortunately, there are too many people who are blinded by the emotion and cannot handle that sometimes, they are absolutely wrong.
Example, I know lots of people out there think that consuming anything animal is wrong. To each their own. If you wish to conduct yourself like this, who am I to step in and tell you that you shouldn’t? Just don’t preach to me if I do eat meat and drink milk and eat cheese and eggs and I won’t preach to you about the screams and wails coming from all those plants being murdered.
(Do I really need to put a snark tag there?)
When I was younger and extremely clueless, I supported PETA. That lasted one whole year. During that time, I started to read up on PETA and frankly, PETA kills more animals than you may know. It’s so nice and wonderful that they go and rescue all sorts of dogs and cats from the shelters, isn’t it? I wonder how nice you think it is that they then kill those dogs and cats and dump them in dumpsters because they just don’t have the room, it’s all overwhelming!
(PETA cease and desist letter in 3....2....1...)
We’ve heard how PETA likes to go to kids schools and hand out pamphlets about the eeeeevils of meat eating and are told to go home and call mommy and daddy murderers. Because nothing quite says ‘sane’ like using little kids to spread your propaganda. (Sick fucks.)
Look, I could go on all day so how about this:
PETA decides that we should all eat breast milk instead
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow’s milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.
“PETA’s request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow’s milk in the food he serves,” the statement says.
PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health....
Oh. My. God.
As always, PETA takes one fact and then twists it in to something that turns out to be false or a very bad thought out idea. Is breast milk healthy? Of course it is. For most children. Duh. We all know that. That’s the fact that PETA takes. Now, the twist and turn of it is to add that as adults, we should all be eating breast milk.
Several things wrong with this:
#1: There’s the “gross” factor. If Ben and Jerry’s decided to do this, I’m positive their sales would slump.
#2: Breast milk is high in fat. Adults do not need that extra fat.
#3: How about diseases? How is this milk tested for diseases? How do we know that we are getting disease free milk at those milk centers?
#4: Do we really want to start treating lactating women like cattle? Really? Do you have any idea just how many women we would have to milk to supply the current demand for cow’s milk in Ben and Jerry’s ice cream? Do we really want to go down this road?
#5: Despite the fact that some people drink it to try to help cure their cancer, (a protein in breast milk was shown to kill brain tumor cells in a test tube), there is no evidence that breast milk benefits adults any more than cow’s milk.
#6: The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association state that children over the age of 2 and adults benefit from cow’s milk because it is an inexpensive source of protein and a convenient source of calcium. It contains vitamin A and B12,thiamine,riboflavin and minerals like sodium and potassium. The products made out of cow’ milk like cheese, butter, ice cream, etc. also improve the immune system.
PETA continues:
"The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn’t make sense,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “Everyone knows that ‘the breast is best,’ so Ben & Jerry’s could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."
Everyone knows this eh, Tracy? Everyone. Actually, it does make sense to drink cow’s milk. And I think Ben and Jerry’s is already doing cows a big favor by using and continuing to use their milk. Check out this story about the poor, mistreated cows living in constant pain and “filthy conditions” (according to PETA):
Who Moooved My Air Mattress? PETA?
FLUFFY fingered farmers are pampering their dairy cows with massages and comfy mattresses to produce better tasting milk.
Some spoilt herds are being tucked up each night on three inches of soft rubber and sawdust while some are lucky enough to get a WATER bed.
And for a special treat, farmers are even installing special MASSAGE equipment into the sheds belonging to their Frisian friends.
And farmers say all the pampering gives the milk better TASTE.
The barmy sounding moo-ves are part of the ‘Caring Dairy’ initiative set up by ice-cream maker Ben and Jerry’s.
They believe paying special attention to animal welfare makes the cows “happier” and prolongs their normally short lives... ~emph. mine
...Ben & Jerry’s co-founder, Jerry Greenfield said: “Comfy cows are happy cows.”
Right. PETA, again, has not paid attention to the whole story before going after a company. Too busy looking for attention for their ridiculous cause, they end up looking foolish. It is because of organizations like PETA that those of us who are true animal activists, will always get a bad name.
Again I say, congratulations, PETA. You harm more animals every time you start flapping your gums.
