Hypocrites!
I was walking in a mall and saw sign board for ‘caring for doves’ campaign. The people behind the placard I am sure were non vegetarians.
What I don’t understand is how can people be so hypocritical?
I remember an episode in Seinfeld where they show Elaine as an ‘anti fur’ activist. She would be questioning everybody who wears fur. One of them would question her back asking ‘Are you a vegetarian? If not don't even talk about it.’ and she would be stumped.
I am not saying that non vegetarians should not stand for any cause protecting animals or birds.But won’t they feel hypocritical when they do such things?
5 comments:
It does not make sense to eat a chicken for lunch and come and sit in a campaign to save doves. Could start at saving the chicken first.
I fully agree with you.
A similar thought ran in the minds of my wife and I, when we were shopping at a big departmental store. In an attempt to entertain our 6 year old and his friend, we took them near the pet section where they had fish, crabs, snails in the tanks. Our hearts was filled with grief when we we saw the beautiful birds fluttering their wings in a very small cage. I find it hard to sit in a office cubicle for 15 mins straight and how hard it would have been for the birds to have lost their freedom. I even said to my wife, why not buy all the birds and set them free. But that is not a solution to this problem. BTW, do they get that much profit by selling live birds, snakes, rats, mice, lizards, cockroaches etc.
I am not against selling of processed fish, chicken, meat etc as there is a saying in tamil that "Konna pavam, thinna poochu". But imprisioning the birds when they should be let free is something that is hard for me to accept.
How about using them for experiments?! The cruelties humans do to animals are invisible and unimaginable. If we learn about the abuse animals are going through in modern animal factory farming in wired battery, overcrowded cages and also in animal experimentation, we will realize how selfish humans are. There are some people who have become vegetarians after learning about all these "speciesism.
I loved Andy Rooney's comments on 60 mins once.. Here's a part of it..
"I like steak, lamb and pork chops but you couldn't make me eat rabbit or horse. When I was in France during World War II, horses would often be killed in the fields by artillery fire and the French farmers would wait until the shooting stopped and then rush out to carve up the dead horses for dinner.
I don't know why anyone who eats beef finds the idea of eating a horse so repulsive but I'm one of them. Horses seem so friendly and I don't like to be reminded of the animal I'm eating. I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them.
Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals. I could be one of them. Of course, I'd be pretty old by then."
Did you know, you can fight global warming by being a vegetarian?
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