Hurry gentlemen, make your egg.
Posted on 01/04/2002 7:58:17 AM PST by SERE_DOC
Oh, man! Sometimes I have trouble typing up these notes for you people because I can't see through the tears from laughing so hard, or because my sides are splitting. This is one of those times.
Karen Davis, Ph.D., is president of a group called United Poultry Concerns. Who are they, you ask? Well, their website states, "We are dedicated to the making of a future in which every chicken, turkey and duck has a voice that is heard," (she doesn't mention AFLAC) and "We invite the public to visit us and see what a chicken can be when a chicken is free!" Yes, one can only try to imagine the contributions that a truely free chicken could make to society. UPC would prefer that we not ingest our winged brethren. So a few weeks ago Dr. Davis wrote an "open letter" to the Vegan Voice, a vegetarian newsletter. Below is an excerpt (and I hope you're sitting down):
"...I think it is speciesist to think that the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center was a greater tragedy than what millions of chickens endured that day and what they endure every day because they cannot defend themselves against the concerted human appetites arrayed against them. Perhaps the word "tragedy" should not be used anyway in this context unless in the more precise sense of a fundamentally terrible thing happening to a human being who consciously or subconsciously brought the terrible thing upon him or herself, lived through it, and gained insight and wisdom as a result. In this classical sense of tragic drama, it remains to be seen whether America is a "tragic hero" or even a "tragic" victim. If, though, the question is whether the World Trade Center attack was worse for its thousands of human victims than the sum total of misery and terror was for millions of chicken victims that day, I see only one nonspeciesist answer to the question."
Oh, my side hurts! I think I’ll get an order of wings while I ponder what that "nonspeciesist answer" is.
well it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is a God in Heaven and He has a sence of humor and grace that trancends human understanding.
Hence He does not "smite" mankind for all our stupid moves to "humanize animals"
Hurry gentlemen, make your egg.
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