Animal activists - Is it all a big pretence?
Last night I watched Shark Bait: Gordon Ramsay on DSTV and felt sick to my stomach at the cruelty to sharks, whose numbers have fallen by more than 60% off the west coast of South America over the past seven years.
While watching, my thoughts drifted to a recent debate I started on Facebook.
Does not eating meat and not using animal products such as leather make a positive contribution to the inhumane slaughter and abuse of animals?
From the comments on Facebook, I can say that 95% of those who commented do not feel it will make a positive contribution. Everyone is, however, at one with the fact that people should instead take action against these activities that lead to abuse rather than simply discontinuing the use of the animal product.
Gordon Ramsay, last night set a perfect example. He confronted restaurant guests, chefs, fishermen, port security and many others single-handed. He went out there and witnessed how an endangered hammerhead shark is stripped of its fins while still alive and how the wriggling body without fins is thrown back into the ocean.
There are so many animals being killed without good reason.
In the latest issue of National Geographic magazine, there is an article on the ivory trade. During one poaching session in Kenya, 300 elephants were killed with hand grenades and AK47s, stripped of their tusks and the bodies left there to rot.
I cannot agree with slaughtering animals that are not bred as a food source.
Cows, sheep, pigs, and even horses and rabbits are bred under controlled conditions to supply a growing population with food and clothing. South African abattoirs are strictly controlled by several professional organisations to ensure the humane slaughter of these animals. The people who work at abattoirs receive training and are evaluated according to a strict set of guidelines.
But, what bothers me, is whether all these animal 'activists' really understand the impact of how they should be changing their lives if they really want to boycott animal products?
The animal activist purchases a plastic handbag because its leather counterpart comes from a cow. But does the animal activist know that plastic contains casein, an animal by-product? Casein is also used in paint, glue, and fibres to manufacture fabric and at the dentist. Even the soap you buy to wash your body and the ink in your pen contains animal by-products!
And the best part of this entire debate is that the soil in which the vegetables grow that are eaten by the so-called animal activists is mostly fertilised with animal remains. How bizarre! Animal activists won't consume animal products, but they have no quarrel with consuming vegetables grown in 'organically' fertilised soil.
I am getting at that we should thank the good lord or whoever you pray to for providing us with food in the form of cows and chicken. By not eating meat, you are not making a difference to the number of rhinos slaughtered for their horns or elephants for their tusks.
Get off your skinny, sickly-looking vegetarian ass and DO something that will contribute positively.
While watching, my thoughts drifted to a recent debate I started on Facebook.
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From the comments on Facebook, I can say that 95% of those who commented do not feel it will make a positive contribution. Everyone is, however, at one with the fact that people should instead take action against these activities that lead to abuse rather than simply discontinuing the use of the animal product.
Gordon Ramsay, last night set a perfect example. He confronted restaurant guests, chefs, fishermen, port security and many others single-handed. He went out there and witnessed how an endangered hammerhead shark is stripped of its fins while still alive and how the wriggling body without fins is thrown back into the ocean.
There are so many animals being killed without good reason.
In the latest issue of National Geographic magazine, there is an article on the ivory trade. During one poaching session in Kenya, 300 elephants were killed with hand grenades and AK47s, stripped of their tusks and the bodies left there to rot.
I cannot agree with slaughtering animals that are not bred as a food source.
Cows, sheep, pigs, and even horses and rabbits are bred under controlled conditions to supply a growing population with food and clothing. South African abattoirs are strictly controlled by several professional organisations to ensure the humane slaughter of these animals. The people who work at abattoirs receive training and are evaluated according to a strict set of guidelines.
But, what bothers me, is whether all these animal 'activists' really understand the impact of how they should be changing their lives if they really want to boycott animal products?
The animal activist purchases a plastic handbag because its leather counterpart comes from a cow. But does the animal activist know that plastic contains casein, an animal by-product? Casein is also used in paint, glue, and fibres to manufacture fabric and at the dentist. Even the soap you buy to wash your body and the ink in your pen contains animal by-products!
And the best part of this entire debate is that the soil in which the vegetables grow that are eaten by the so-called animal activists is mostly fertilised with animal remains. How bizarre! Animal activists won't consume animal products, but they have no quarrel with consuming vegetables grown in 'organically' fertilised soil.
I am getting at that we should thank the good lord or whoever you pray to for providing us with food in the form of cows and chicken. By not eating meat, you are not making a difference to the number of rhinos slaughtered for their horns or elephants for their tusks.
Get off your skinny, sickly-looking vegetarian ass and DO something that will contribute positively.
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