Category: Thought

Fuck knows people have and will say whatever they think. It doesn’t matter what it happens to be. Or what it is they have to say. If it can be said. It will be said. Fair enough, I guess, this is a “democracy.” But I wish citizens would take that right a little more seriously.

I’m mostly speaking to the “Tamil-Canadian protests” that have come to a “head” Last Sunday on a Toronto highway concerning a worsening “humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka.” I’m not arguing a point. Although, if I was to take a side, I’d take the side of the protesters. The fact that they, The Tamil Tigers, have been deemed a “terrorist organization” by the needle-dicks who run this country only strengthens my resolve.

On a side note; I started reading Yves Engler’s latest book, The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy (my views on my government haven’t changed any, I knew what expect going in, but even that wasn’t preparation enough). And every Canadian convinced our country plays a positive role on the world stage needs to remove their head from their hind-parts and read this book. NOW!

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Those who know me are well aware of my skepticism surrounding celebrity. And, a few, should remember my characteristic eye roll and infamous “fuck me” response to news of Oprah Winfrey’s “21-day vegan ‘cleanse’.”

Well the Vegan Freaks said all that needs to be said on the subject. I recommend reading their post. In part;

“After all, lots of you put a lot of stock into Oprah, and the higher you hold someone up, the farther they have to fall. It is nice to imagine or to deeply hope that one person can come along and make a huge difference in an issue you care deeply about, and the desire at the heart of that longing is admirable. But in truth, it is also naive, because building movements that change the world requires hard and inglorious work, and it means that no single individual can ever be our lone savior, especially someone whose fame and vast fortunes separate them from the daily crap that most of us slug through each day…”

I don’t, never have, and never will get people’s obsession with this woman. I guess it’s me. And, in looking for the positives, her fans can only hope she doesn’t strike every branch on her way down to irrelevance. That is, of course, if she carried any sort of relevance prior to this little KFC stunt…

“All females used for milk production are torn from their babies shortly after birth. […] They all beg for their babies in language that requires no translation: They bellow, they cry, they moan. Many continue to call for their babies for days and nights on end. Some stop eating and drinking. They search feverishly. Many refuse to give up and will return to the empty spot again and again. Some withdraw in silent grief. They all remember to their last breath the face, the scent, the voice, the gait of every baby they carried for nine months, soundered to, birthed with difficulty, bathed, loved, and never got to know, nurture, protect, and watch live.”¹

Motherhood is NOT exclusive to humanity. Why is a mother’s, any mother’s, instinct not worth empathy?

“Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination, it excludes beings from the scope of moral concern on the basis of an irrelevant criterion. It makes no difference whether that irrelevant criterion is race, sex, sexual orientation, [ability], or species.”²

The fine folks over at Peaceful Prairie have assembled a series of downloadable resources aptly labelled Grieving Mothers [1] & [2];

“This Mother’s Day, as we honor and celebrate Motherhood, help us continue to advocate for the forgotten mothers of the world, the millions of captive females used in ALL forms of dairy production – from raw, family farmed, organic, and factory farmed operations - whose only experience of motherhood is the gruesome loss of baby after baby.”³

Why not do yourself and the billions of Mothers around the world a huge favour and consider someone else? Go Vegan Now!

Happy Mothers Day…

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Today’s broadcast of The Current began, like any other, with “The Voices” “satirical” introduction;

“The European Union has approved a plan to ban all seal products because it says Canada’s annual seal hunt is ‘inherently inhumane’. Currently, and just to be clear, pumping a kilogram-a-day of partially cooked corn into the esophagus of an unwilling goose? That’s ‘inherently yummy’.”

Their daily shot at derision is hit or miss with me–usually a miss–but today’s installment left me unsettled. I don’t find the above quote humorous, ironic, an exaggeration, or critical, in any traditional sense of “satire,” or, least of all, the manner in which I’ll assume it was offered.

Frankly, it’s just sad…