This Can’t Be

I stumbled on this article at Newsweek yesterday, The Rights Of Animals […] Will We All Soon Be Vegans? Which piqued my interest. What if? And appearing in Newsweek? Impressive. At first…

Before too long my instinct was proven correct. It’s full of some fairly problematic logic. Some new welfarist thinking for ya. I’m pretty sure the whole animal rights issue revolves around not subjecting nonhumans to an existence where their exploitation is the accepted necessity of sustenance? 

And growing animal flesh in “vats?” Where does the material needed to do something like this originate? An animal? So the author eventually disproves his own original premise? We won’t all be vegan if we continue to eat meat. Whether grown in a lab or not, it’s still animal flesh. A vegan avoids ALL animal products. Because a vegan is concerned about an animals suffering, sure, but putting something in our mouths, at least, that once was a part of a living, feeling, sentient being is objectionable to most vegans. Myself included. 

Exploitation by any other name is still exploitation…

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CNN Strikes Again

Last night I tuned into CNN’s Election coverage. And believe me, no-one is more sorry than I. I should have known better. Totally my fault, I know.

A very small minded Republican, I assume, sitting on their “panel” actually told the audience if Obama wins minorities no longer have any excuses. Wow, what a relief, I feel so vindicated. All it took was a single Black man to be elected as President of the United States for an entire planet to drop their small-minded, selfish tendencies? What took so bloody long?

“Fucking goof…”

Careful

So Barack Obama is the next President of the U.S., eh? I’d say congratulations are in order. I’m serious. What he’s done, getting into office, is inspiring. He has managed to do something truly remarkable. He won despite every effort The Douche Bag Express threw his way to derail promises of change.

But is “change” really coming?

Fact is Mr. Obama is working for the exact same needle-dick system and corporations that guided him into office. Make no mistake those favors don’t come cheap…

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