I am one of those people who just can't help yelling at inanimate objects like they can hear me. I think I spent the whole 2004 election cycle yelling furiously at the radio like it would some how effect the voting. Every now and again I'd catch the people pulled up next to me at stoplights staring, mouths open, like they'd just seen a crazy person. Which indeed they had.
I also have a tendency to forget where I am when I'm doing this yelling. On days where I'm say, at school, in the library, this is a little bit of a problem because I generally don't like the student population thinking I need to be locked up. Like today when I came across a site called "All The Critters" which claims to "welcome all animal lovers" and yesterday featured a charming entry entitled "I am too soft hearted." Which clearly, the author is not. What she IS made me say several choice expletives loudly enough to make the girl sitting next to me suddenly decide to be in a different room.
If you run a blog dedicated to "the animals we all love and share our planet with" and you admit that you're bothered by the idea of a dead cow to the point where you get emotional and begin to tear up, why are you still eating dead anything? I don't get it. If you're incapable of eating animals you've raised and killed, why do you still eat other dead animals? Are the ones you raised magically different than the ones you didn't? There's a disconnect there. You obviously think that slaughtering animals causes pain or suffering or is wrong for some reason, or you wouldn't have an adverse emotional reaction to it. Am I missing something?
Even stranger? On March 6th a post about the depravity of horse slaughter was placed on the same blog. It strikes me as curious that someone who is so adamantly against the slaughter of horses didn't think about just how close a horse and cow really are. Or a horse and a pig. Or that the justification used for eating horses holds up for all 'meat' animals. It reeks of ethnocentrism that you believe that eating horse flesh isn't normal or right. I totally applaud you for picking up on the fact that money actually makes people treat animals poorly, by the way. High five on that one.
This idea that animals are only worth something if we form attachments to them is like me saying that genocide in Africa is fine because I've never met anyone who is being killed there. Why should it bother me? I don't know them. I don't have to see them die, right? And yet strangely, it does bother me.
Also, it's 'citing' not 'sighting'. I know you're blog is big and important, but if you're going to be making such a big, important point and trying to sway people's opinion, maybe try picking up a dictionary.
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