Plant rights

Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2004 @ 5:18 p.m.

It is HOT out there. A hundred and ten friggin' degrees! Gawd, I spent just 2 or 3 hours outdoors today, and now I'm feeling as if I've sprinted up and down on Mount Everest. Twice. The sun just really takes it out of ya.

Right now, I'm just sitting at the computer, relaxing for a bit in cool, air-conditioned comfort. And I'm munching on leftover foie gras from the nice dinner we had yesterday. Yum!

I love foie gras, I can just munch on it all day. it's basically duck liver fermented in port wine, and it's so yummy. While looking around the internet for foie gras recipes yesterday, though, I came across a few websites that were campaigning to ban foie gras in California. In fact, a state senator has actually sponsored a bill to outlaw foie gras. It's a matter of animal rights.

Most of the time, I don't find myself agreeing completely with animal rights activists. When it comes to clear-cut issues like abuse and cruelty to pets and such, I completely support their cause. What I don't agree with is how the really extreme activists try to convert everyone to vegetarianism. They think that if they don't eat animals, they're respecting life.

There's just one minor problem... aren't vegetables alive too? If you really want to respect life, there's basically nothing you should eat. You shouldn't even drink water, because if you do, you're depleting the precious homes of billions of marine species. More water for you = less living space for them. And when you get sick, you shouldn't take antibiotics either, 'cos you're just murdering those poor, helpless bacterium. You're forsaking innocent lives for your own, selfish well-being! Shame on you!!

Dammit, just let the people eat whatever they want, and don't force your philosophies on other people! The bottom line is that animals eat animals. It's called a food chain. However brutal and savage that sounds, it's the fundamental law of biology. Even if you eat only plants, you're killing too. When you grow them in the farms, you're letting those that taste good thrive, while disposing of those that don't taste good. What about those innocent vegetables losing their lives just because you don't think they taste good? Isn't that the botanical version of a Holocaust?

And that's not all... for those that do taste good, you pluck the poor things out of the ground at the prime of their lives, starving them of nutrients from the soil. You pluck the leaves - their limbs - off, and you chop them up into a zillion pieces. Throw them in a pot of water, and boil them till they're not even recognizable in form. And you don't call that cruelty. You call it 'minestrone soup'.

If you really want to go to that extreme, bear this in mind: Just because something isn't cute, furry and cuddly doesn't make it any less of a life to respect.

In fact, when you eat a fruit of any sort, you're actually eating the ripened ovary of a plant. You're harvesting their sexual organs, and making them delicacies! Gawd! What are you, some sort of sick, perverted psycho??

(There, now harvesting duck liver to make foie gras doesn't sound so brutal and savage anymore, does it?)

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