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12/05/09
Adoption is good. Adoption is GREAT. Rescue is good. Rescue is GREAT. But animals in shelters come from irresponsible breeding and breeding for profit to fit trends such as so-called designer breeds, not from responsible breeders who maintain and advance lines of breeds from antiquity to modern times. Pure bred dogs do have genetic problems, but those problems are also widespread in the mixed breed population. Responsible breeders through breed organizations sponsor and participate in genetic studies to determine how to reduce or eliminate these genetic flaws in their stock.
PETA and HSUS don't. Because it doesn't fit their goals of no pets for anyone eventually.
End of usual anti-PETA, anti-HSUS rant.
12/04/09
Or, better Krupa for PETA than Krepa for PUTA.
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It's early, what can I say...
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I'm going to have to do a really good deed now to straighten out my karma.
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Like, if I didn't understand how clothing is manufactured, etc., I would be really freaked out by someone suddenly having different colored/textured skin...
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One LOL (use to be `little old ladies') is lamenting to another such her Sheena is pregnant again. "And we never ever let her out of the house, and we watch her constantly when she cycles in, and here she is, kittens due any day now..."
And then an obviously adequate tom saunters into the room from the kitchen, and the visitor says, "Well, that may be a suspect."
And the LOL scoffs. "Oh, don't be silly; that's her brother!"
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11/23/09
Sorry if this was offensive, but I can`t say that I wasn't offended by most of the comments below.
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There are several reasons why the meat industry is still a billion-dollar industry even though groups like PETA and those who promote vegan/vegetarian lifestyles raise awareness on how meat is processed on a corporate scale. One reason is people who like eating meat...like eating meat. And no amount of PETA commercials will change that.
11/23/09
Really, the dumbest thing about PETA's argument is that it implies that if it weren't for humans, the noble inhabitants of the animal kingdom would live in a peace that only exists in Disney movies. In order to have harmonious ecosystems, a whole lot of killing has to happen. Otherwise, populations grow out of control and deplete resources until they leave the land barren (see the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria, Deers in National Parks with non-existent wolf populations, etc.)
The most reasonable argument for vegetarianism I've heard is that the meat industry consumes an exorbitant amount of resources and leaves a tremendous carbon footprint, endangering the survival of life in our planet. Now, that's something I can get behind.
(Also, I do not intend to discredit people's personal attachment to animals and their particular refusal to inflict unnecessary cruelty on other living beings. However, while you should be free to raise awareness of what goes on behind producing a leather garment, you have no right to attack or vilify those who do not share your stance towards animal cruelty.)
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for yams, beans, and cranberry sauce.
But have you given much thought lately
to the Turkey Holocaust?
Twenty million noble birds
slaughtered every fall.
Ain’t no difference between Hitler, Stalin
and the folks at Butterball!
Butterba-a-a-a-ll!!
So set your tables, America
from Birmingham to Branson.
But when you carve that turkey
you’re a finger-licking Charlie Manson.
Enjoy your pumpkin pie
your buttery Idaho spud.
Grandma’s chestnut stuffing
and a turkey basted in blood!
Basted in blood! Basted in blood!
Basted in blood! Basted in blood!
Basted in blood! Basted in blood!
Basted in blood! Basted in blood!"
- Sarah McLachlan & Ana Gasteyer, SNL
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