Phil Hudgins, Senior Editor, CNI Newspapers
"Shurden, according to the Associated Press, wants to bring back chicken fights, but with safety measures. Instead of wearing razor-like spurs, the roosters would wear tiny boxing gloves on their feet. That way, the senator says, the chickens could fight without shedding blood.
Sen. Shurden says cockfighting with gloves could save the
state's gamefowl industry, which I suppose is something you'd want to save.
Removing blood from the sport, he says, eliminates the main argument
animal-rights groups use against cockfighting.
So, PETA members, what do
you think? Would gloves and muffs take away the cruelty? No beast gets hurt,
unless there's a fight in the bleachers.
It's a stupid idea, isn't it?
Sort of like putting huge pads and spring-loaded rubber bumpers on racing
cars.
Forget it, Senator. Either rehabilitate those roosters or barbecue
'em.
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Every once in a while, I hear of the concept of “animal rights.” I hear of certain groups of people who believe that animals deserve to have rights just as humans do.
And then I cannot help but realize that these animal rights activists such as those commonly found in PETA and ALF are bloody hypocrites.
Apparently, members of these animal rights groups slept in their high school biology classes and failed to realize that animals are only one of five kingdoms of living organisms. Other than animals, we have plants, fungi, protists and monerans. The only defense of plants I’ve ever heard of are those Greenpeace hippies screaming at us to protect the trees because they provide us with oxygen.
That’s all well, good and true, but I read that as yet more animal- or human-centered motivation. If it is wrong to harm trees, it is because they are living organisms, just like animals, just like other plants and just like fungi, protists and monerans.
What about the plants that are not trees? What about those plants that we ever-so-lovingly refer to as vegetables? Trees sacrifice their lives every day to make our wooden doors and our houses. Yet, many wheat plants die every day to make our bread. You vegetarians and vegans, please think of the soybeans that had to die to provide you with your tofu and soy milk.
Now I know what some of you are thinking. “But Gabe, plants don’t feel pain. They have no emotions. They don’t even have brains.”
That may be true, but as far as I know it has not been established whether animals know the concept of pain, either. Note the key word — concept. Even if they “hurt,” it has not been proven whether they understand that as the emotion of pain, or whether it is merely an instinctual reaction.
Dogs and cats — you could probably argue pretty well in favor of their emotional capacity, but it’s still not scientifically proven. Then again, I don’t eat or otherwise harm dogs and cats.
Beef cattle and suicidal deer — big dumb animals that they are, I highly doubt it. When a deer waits until I am within 50 feet of it before it moves in front of my car and pisses off both me and my insurance company, I feel pretty confident that they have no concept of pain as an emotion, despite what “Bambi,” that annoying piece of Disney propaganda, seems to insinuate.
The same goes for fish that get their mouths snagged with barbed hooks, or chickens that run around aimlessly after they lose their heads.
But I digress. As far as I’m concerned the burden of proof falls upon scientists to find out whether animals have emotional capacity. Until that happens, they are equal to the plant in my book. And no, I am not advocating animal death, I just want to put my point into perspective.
And the bottom line is, plants are victims of horrible prejudice. Trees get felled every day because they do not move from place to place or make audible sounds. Other smaller and often edible plants (or vegetables, if you prefer, but I find that term derogatory), receive even worse treatment. Like their larger cousins, they do not move or make audible sounds, and even those Greenpeace freaks find them inconsequential because their contribution to our atmosphere’s oxygen content is fairly minimal.
Fungi receive some pretty nasty treatment as well. Why do we feel it necessary to give special treatment to animals when so many innocent mushrooms end up chopped on pizzas every year?
Some fungi are used as disposable slaves! What about the horrible treatment done to yeasts? They get subjected to 350-degree temperatures while buried in a coagulated mass of flour and water. They get doused in grain malt and grape juice. And we have the nerve to savor in the fruits of their fatal toils!
Protists that resemble their photosynthetic larger cousins get turned into soap and toothpaste. And fishers reel in their stock without paying any attenion to the zooplankton that are responsible for having fish to catch in the first place.
However, no kingdom of living organisms receives worse treatment than the monerans. Derided by the use of the term “bacteria,” some monerans are treated as slaves just like yeasts are, being forced to make us our yogurt.
Certain other monerans, however, are being extinguished because they are causing us some discomfort. Because of perceived offenses like strep throat, staph infections, cholera, dysentery, plague, tuberculosis and typhus, people feel it necessary to focus their torture techniques and weapons of mass destruction to wipe them out.
The torture techniques are used on these poor organisms to make vaccines. Scientists take collections of these so-called troublemakers. The lucky ones get killed outright. The not-so-lucky ones get subjected to some brutal procedures that leave them considerably weakened. Scientists rationalize that the purpose of these torture techniques for certain bacteria is to build human immunity more effectively than dead organisms. Yeah, whatever.
But perhaps the most vile representation of the human hatred of monerans comes in the form of antibiotics. Which, by the way, started as yet another case of human exploitation of fungus slave labor in the form of penicillin.
Yes, just as millions of chickens die and suffer every year on commercial farms, trillions and trillions of monerans die and suffer every year from our fungus-slave produced weapons of mass destruction. Think about that, people.
It is time for the preferential treatment given to animals to stop. They are only one kingdom of organisms. Plants, including the so-called “vegetables,” fungi, protists and monerans are living things; they deserve rights just like animals. Human history has been filled with acts of undeniable cruelty against the other four forgotten taxonomic kingdoms, and it is time for it to stop.
— Gabriel Garcia is an assistant news editor at The Daily Beacon and a senior in journalism who loves all of God’s creatures. He can be reached at elbrigadier@utk.edu
Source: http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=16061
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More Eichmann Comparisons From
Terror-Supporting Professor
Professional academia has been buzzing about the case of Ward Churchill, a University of Colorado Indian Studies professor whose writings compare New York City's 9-11 victims with Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann. As the Governor of Colorado, that state's legislature, and the University of Colorado regents line up to criticize him for endorsing Al Qaeda's acts of international terrorism, Professor Churchill also appears to support extending their murderous tactics to the targets of domestic animal-rights terrorists.
In the essay that got him into trouble, Ward Churchill wrote shortly after 9-11 that thousands of Americans died in the World Trade Center because of the "gallant sacrifices" of Al Qaeda "combat teams." The professor continues:
If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.
This may have been Ward Churchill's first absurd comparison of everyday Americans to Hitler's Nazi party. But it wouldn't be his last.
In the foreword to Terrorists or Freedom Fighters: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (edited and introduction by Steven Best, a University of Texas El Paso philosophy professor and animal-rights terrorism supporter), Churchill expands his Nazi comparison to modern medical researchers and meat companies.
"To assault the meatpacking industry," Ward Churchill muses in Professor Best's book, "is to mount a challenge to the mentality that allowed well over a million dehumanized humans to be systematically slaughtered by the SS einsatzgruppen in eastern Europe during the early 1940s, and the nazis' simultaneous development of truly industrial killing techniques in places like Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka."
Churchill goes on to not only defend arson and violence committed by FBI-certified domestic terror groups like the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Earth Liberation Front (ELF), but also to argue that they haven't gone far enough. He claims that drawing a "line in the tactical sand" that embraces "property damage" but excludes murder is "arbitrary" -- and again invokes Eichmann:
Given the opportunity to do either in, say, 1942, would it have been more effective/appropriate to have torched the office of Adolf Eichmann, the nazi bureaucrat whose peculiar expertise made an orderly implementation of the Final Solution possible, or to have eliminated Eichmann himself? The answer need not be rendered as an abstraction.
As Ward Churchill receives near-universal rebuke for praising Al Qaeda's choice of tactics, he appears to be endorsing a similar escalation among animal-rights radicals. Which would put him right in line with long-time spokes-doctor for the PETA-affiliated Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Jerry Vlasak, who in 2003 endorsed the murder of medical researchers whose work requires lab animals.
Regardless, the mass media should recognize that Ward Churchill thinks his estimation of World Trade Center victims as "little Eichmanns" should logically extend to meat producers, scientists, and other institutional targets of animal-rights lunatics. And there are other terrorist-sympathizing professors lined up behind him, just waiting to be publicly acknowledged.
Dr. Best, for instance. He and Jerry Vlasak recently announced their collaboration as "press officers" for the ALF -- odd duty for a college professor, but understandable given his philosophical leanings. There's been no word yet on whether Ward Churchill, likely to soon be stripped of his tenured job, will join Best.
Source: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/2742