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The ABC’s Australian Story profiles millionaire-turned-animal activist Brian Sherman, provoking this line from enviro-hysteric Tim Flannery:
I think that Brian sees something akin to what went on in the Holocaust. You know, that this is a terrible tragedy unfolding before our eyes, and unless we act to do something about it, we’re complicit in this cruelty and this degradation.
(Sherman himself says: “The Holocaust and animal rights aren’t on par. They’re different things totally.”) A couple of years ago PETA based a whole campaign on the idea that battery chickens suffer similarly to Auschwitz inmates. But we’re six decades on from Nazi death camps; it’s time to update, chickenists. I’m sure all the residents at Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib would be honoured to be used in a campaign equating them with domestic fowl. Hey, why not compare these chickens to Nelson Mandela, or David Hicks?
We stop eating chicken and PETA’s gonna have to hire more guys to dump humanely killed birds in bigger dumpsters.
Save the chickens!
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2005 07 20 at 01:50 PM • permalink
If God did not intend humans to eat chickens, He would never have made Colonel Sanders.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 20 at 02:16 PM • permalink
- He worries about the poor animals in “factory farms”…well, I plead guilty. Because we have a “factory farm” for chickens, the price of chicken is low enough for poor people in manila to eat Chicken adobo…
And if he is from South Africa, why doesn’t he worry about the hundred thousand homeless in Zimbabwe, not to mention the impending deaths in “voiceless” villages from lack of food and no money for medicine.
Nope.
Black people don’t count.
Just watched a documentary on George Stevens and his documentary footage from the liberation of Dachau. Anybody who can reach him has my permission to smack Flannery in the back of the head…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 20 at 07:23 PM • permalink
He’s being treated fowly!
Posted by Speculative Catholic on 2005 07 20 at 07:25 PM • permalink
Pigs Protest Unfair Association… film at 11!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 20 at 07:59 PM • permalink
I think Sherman is the main peddler peddler of moral equivalence. Guess what word comes after “They’re different things totally.” (Hint: begins with “b”)?
Also, weren’t some of the nazis animal libbers themselves?
Sherman also says that slavery doesn’t exist any more. Is he genuinely ignorant, or does he view slavery as like using the n-word, as ok when Africans are doing it?
What about the chooks being exploited in weirdo German porn videos? Colonel Sanders in reality was SturmgruppenfuhrerSanditz, chased worldwide by Simon Wiesenfowl for overseeing hideous deep-frying experiments, but he was smuggled into the US by the OSS because of his knowledge of secret herbs and spices.
Right on.
Someone once pointed out that if one is concerned about the potential extinction of a particular species, then learn how to cook it.
The resulting demand (see the American Bison) will guarantee its’ survival. There are more buffalo grazing on the Great Plains just to feed ‘lean meat’ consumers today than there were even 100 years ago.
Go figure, eh?
By the way, Buffalo burgers ARE good and I want let out a Sioux war whoop after but the onion breath might be offensive.
- Posted by Jay Santos on 2005 07 20 at 09:54 PM • permalink
#15, Habib, Colonel Sanditz also worked with Wernher von Braun on the early German V2 rockets and was smuggled into the USA to pioneeer the first chicken in space. Unfortunately the rocket exploded while taking off at Cape Canaverval, and the chicken plunged back to earth, burnt beyond recognition, to be eaten by the ground staff. Sanditz threw in a few local herbs and spices to disguise the cinders and a legend was born.
The resulting demand (see the American Bison) will guarantee its’ survival. There are more buffalo grazing on the Great Plains just to feed ‘lean meat’ consumers today than there were even 100 years ago.
Hell, just think of how many are needed for their wings alone.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2005 07 20 at 10:40 PM • permalink
Have any of the commenters actually seen what conditions chickens exist in (I won’t use the word “live”) in battery farms?
It’s truly disgraceful and inhumane. We shouldn’t be doing it.
OK, I have somewhat stronger objections to keeping people under similar conditions, and to equate the two shows a distinct lack of rationality, proportion, common sense and basic humanity. So of course such an attitude is to be expected from the Loony Left (these days, the first word is redundant too).
That doesn’t mean that battery farming is justifiable though. But the best method of banning it is education : show people just exactly what battery farming means. Then show them how for just an extra 10% to costs, we don’t have to be quite so barbaric and inhumane. Leave it up to individuals to choose.
I used to prefer free-range chicken but they’re a bitch to lasso at the roundups…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 20 at 11:24 PM • permalink
A good start is to only buy free-range or barn-laid eggs. I prefer barn-laid (only marginally more expensive), I’m not fanatical about “letting the Chooks Run Free”. I do object to Chooks being de-beaked, having wings broken so they can fit more in a cage, and other such barbarities.
And yes, on a farm, I’ve slaughtered Turkeys and Chooks. But I didn’t torture them first, no “slowly sawing at the neck with a blunt knife” a la Jihadi, no keeping them with unhealed broken limbs for years in a cage with dead and dying birds. Tree stump, Axe, chop, wait till the energetic fuss dies down, then into boiling water to loosen the feathers. Quick, clean, and as pain-free as I can make it.
Really, battery farming is a disgrace. Please spend the extra few cents and get barn-laid eggs.
“Also, weren’t some of the nazis animal libbers themselves?”
Yeah! That bastard Hitler was a staunch vegetarian. Using the same sort of crappy PETA logic I could more easily equate them with the Nazis.
Hey come to think of it…Didn’t two young PETArtds just get popped for
killingpulling a ‘Roman holiday’ on South Carolinan dogs they were entrusted to find homes for?
Everybody get outta here! There’s a lobster loose! Cover yourselves in hot butter! Carry lemons just in case!
Remember the Saturday Night Live sketch, back when they were funny, about the giant lobsters that ate Manhattan?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 21 at 02:19 AM • permalink
PETA could redo that Specials song:
Freeeeee-eeeeeeee Chicken Mandela!
Posted by Brian O’Connell on 2005 07 21 at 05:53 AM • permalink
Here’s a feathered fiend for whom de-beaking, being jammed in a too-small cage, being pumped full of hormones and antibiotics, and being fed recycled shit is far too lenient.
Pluck him, and his chicken-fried friend.
Wiener von Braunschweiger? Didn’t he write, I Aim For the Barn (But Sometimes I Hit Deli?)
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 21 at 08:41 PM • permalink
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I vividly remember that campaign, hoped it was the end of them as everyone would see them for the loons they are. Instead they’ve taken up a form of extortion with Australian wool in the US, hooray.