Posted on 10/16/2003 1:22:22 AM PDT by kattracks
The Cornell Coalition for Animal Defense (CCAD) the campus chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals (PETA) recently sponsored a student-funded event in which victims of the Holocaust were compared to starving cows and chickens. The event, called Holocaust on Your Plate, is part of PETAs nationwide attempt to gain sympathy for the animal rights movement. CNN first reported on PETAs insanity in February 2003, when the fringe groups anti-Semitic campaign commenced.
The CCAD demonstration, which took place in front of Cornells student union, was highlighted by the presence of several 60-square-foot panels with photos of concentration camp prisoners alongside pigs, chickens, and cows. One such placard explained the groups moniker:
"During the seven years between 1938 and 1945, 12 million people perished in the Holocaust. The same number of animals is killed every four hours for food in the U.S. alone. The Holocaust is on Your Plate."
During the rally, Matt Prescott, a PETA representative, gestured to the panels and yelled to onlookers, Suffering is suffering! In a statement released to the press and reported by CNN, Prescott offered his rationale for comparing concentration camps to American farms:
"The very same mind-set that made the Holocaust possible that we can do anything we want to those we decide are 'different or inferior' is what allows us to commit atrocities against animals every single day."
Prescott went on to tell the Ithaca Journal:
"[During the Holocaust] people were beaten, abused, and herded to death. Today, 28 billion animals a year in the United States are subjected to similar treatment."CCAD members Racheal Wechsler and Amy Icodae handed out literature containing such lovely sentiments as:
Decades from now, what will you tell your grandchildren when they ask whose side you were on during the animals holocaust? Will you be able to say that you stood up against oppression?
Their pamphlets also quoted German Jewish philosopher Theodor Adorno:
Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.The day after the Holocaust event, the Cornell Daily Sun published a column by Alex Bomstein, a student at Cornell and a member of the local Green Party, in which he wrote:
The difference between you and a lizard is just a massive exaggeration of the difference between you and me... So let us not judge others by the base pairs of their DNA, but by the content of their beings. By something that really matters.Mr. Bomstein may be quite a bit closer to the lizard than the rest of us. Would he or any of the individuals associated with PETA have considered a comparison between slavery and animal captivity? Would they have supported bringing giant posters to Cornell that compared black slaves to caged hampsters? Never. But Jews are a group that is easily targeted because anti-Semitism is en vogue on Americas college campuses.
While many Cornell students expressed shock and dismay at the CCADs demonstration, they really should not be too surprised. When the rights of animals are equated with the rights of man, man is diminished. The animal rights coalitions equating of the Holocaust with the killing of farm animals is a logical conclusion for a movement that has no belief in God or in the moral superiority of man. In the animal rights universe, a cockroach exterminator is just an updated version of Heinrich Himmler. There is no reasoning with these people because they are kooks.
Still, a number of Jewish students tried to get into sophisticated arguments with CCAD members. These discussions generally devolved into debates over the similarities between the respective digestive tracts of cows and humans. A few enraged students even started screaming, Jews are not pigs!
While their outrage is understandable, these students did not do themselves any favors. When kooks are making jackasses of themselves in public, the best strategy is to get out of the way and let them destroy themselves. Laughing at, shunning, or ostracizing these people are all fine strategies. But when a sane person gets into a public shouting match with a lunatic, passersby cant tell who is who.
The CCADs Holocaust on Your Plate rally achieved three major goals. First, the event demonstrated how morally bankrupt the animal rights movement is. Second, it showed that some young people have no conception of what the Holocaust was. And third, it revealed that in the absence of God, evil reigns. PETAs evil placards serve as an important reminder of the inevitable conclusions of moral relativism.
Joseph J. Sabia is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Cornell University.
That is close but my favorite phrase is
If God hadn't meant us to eat animals, He wouldn't of made them out of meat.
Unfortunately, I lost my dolphin-safe veal recipe.
Recipe for Ham Roast
Ingredients:
One live pig.
One leather whip.
Restraint Stocks.
One Stun Gun, (50,000 volts)
3 cans pepper spray.
6 clothes pins.
One jar Glazing Sauce.
3 sq. feet sandpaper, 30 grit.
1 can sliced pinapple.
Peppercorns.
Handcuffs.
Salt.
Recipe:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Restrain the pig. Apply the clothpins to the 6 teats of the pig. Twist clothpins. Spray pepperspray into eyes of pig liberally. Rub skin off pig with sandpaper. Rub salt into wounds of pig. Whip pig with whip. Apply stun gun prods to pigs genitalia. Repeat these actions for 45 minutes.
Then make a roast. Serves 12.
Excuse me for a moment please, I have to run to the store for a few ingredients.
Note to self: Avoid PETA threads just before lunch. Carlo just might post a recipe.
Low Carb Ridley Turtle Peta Fin Fritters
In a deep fryer, preheat oil to 400 degrees.
1) Soak fin overnight in lime or lemon juice to soften. Chop coarsely.
2) Mix with flour, baking powder, eggs, chopped green pepper, red onion, garlic, fresh ground peppercorns, cilantro, green onions, hot peppers (as desired), coconut milk from any nearby palms.
3) Stir the dough and allow to rest 1 hour.
4) Drop in tablespoon size dough balls and fry until golden brown.
Do not cook too many at once or centers may not cook.
Garnish with lemon and lime slices.
Spotted Owl Stew
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onions and sauté until golden brown, about 8 minutes. Transfer the onions to a bowl and set aside.
Stir the flour and salt together in a shallow bowl and dredge the bird pieces in the mixture.
Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in the same pan. Add the meat and sauté the pieces until they are lightly browned. Layer the onion over the top and pour in the chicken stock, white wine, and thyme. Cover and simmer until the pieces are tender, 30 to 40 minutes.
Meanwhile, melt the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter in a small skillet and add the mushrooms. Sauté until they begin to soften. Season with a pinch of salt. Add the mushrooms and their cooking juices to the large pan 10 minutes before the game pieces are done. Serve garnish with chopped parsley.
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