I love animals, I really do ( I own a retired greyhound who is greatly loved). But the rest of the world must be laughing at us. Here we are, spending BILLIONS a year on animal costumes, clothing, fancy leashes, toys and doggie beds that rival and cost more than human ones while the PEOPLE in this country lose jobs, go hungry, and whatnot.
We became a nation of fools when people stopped looking at animals as a means of food, protection, and human assistance/companionship and made them people. While I am all for people with enough disposable income to spend scads of money on whatever they choose, it is NOT the case with most americans, yet they do it anyway. Organizations like peta have done nothing to help this situation by their antics like calling fish “sea kittens” and making children afraid to catch one. I wonder what everyone will do when they can’t afford to buy food? Will sea kitten ever be on the menu?
We need a reset button......
Well said.
"spending BILLIONS a year on animal costumes, clothing, fancy leashes, toys and doggie beds"and the
"jobs"bit in your sentence up there.
I mean, those pet toys aren't all being manufactured by a team of highly skilled badgers.
Yes, you are correct. We need a reset. Just what is such a thing? I teach in the Animal Sciences Dept at a major land grant institution and have observed the anti-ag disease first hand.
Are there bad actors in the food animal complex? Yes, unfortunately there are but they constitute a very very small percentage of the total farm animal producers who are out there. We are doing our level damnest to ferret these bad actors out through education and general audits. We are making great progress but there is still much to be done.
Many anti-ag “intellectuals” speak of the greed and so forth that exists in the “factory farm complex” out there. That word is load of tripe and is born out of the ignorance of a 98% general population that has no concept of the day to day management of our nation’s food supply.
What do people expect to be done of this existing situation? Go back to the old days where everybody kept a few hogs and chickens in their backyards? How preposterous is this insinuation? Much of this is borne out by the anti-meat/vegan agenda.
At the risk of sounding radical, the only reset button that I can imagine that will rattle the policy makers and the public in general is a good ole fashioned short term Ethiopian famine of sorts where the shelves are bare of the essentials such as milk, cheese, eggs and yes, meat for say 2 to 3 weeks.
Lets see what happens then to the priorities that is given to animal rights in this society.
My two cents,
MFO