Faded Boxers

I almost got into an argument with a couple of friends because I voiced out the fact that I was more for the cause of PETA Sucks.com rather than the more socially acceptable mantra of PETA. Before things got out of hand, they just wrote me off as a meat loving red neck and brushed me off with “well you can’t please everyone.” Since I was in no mood to educate them, we agreed to disagree so we could get on with our lives.

What they fail to grasp is the fact that although I respect animal rights as much as the next tree-hugger, I fail to sympathize with people who have made it their life’s mission to ram their ideologies down other people’s throats whether their opinion is warranted or not. It also doesn’t help that most of the people behind PETA are a bunch of hypocrites the likes of which has never been seen since The Inquisition.

Laudable as PETA’s goals may be, their methods for reaching those goals leave much to be desired. Their penchant for resorting to extreme methods such as industrial sabotage, encouraging people to “blow stuff up,” and threatening vulnerable groups have earned them the reputation of being the America’s “most serious domestic terrorism threat.�?

PETA co-founder Alex Pacheco has been quoted: “Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are acceptable crimes when used for the animal cause.”

In short, they would go to great lengths to protect animal rights, even if it means endangering some humans along the way.

As if that weren’t enough, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk, has made it quite obvious that she finds nothing wrong with bestiality. Let me give you enough time for that to sink in and appropriately utter the words “Mother. Bitch. Fuck!”

Done? Ok. Now I’ve never seen Newkirk, nor can I be bothered into doing a Google Image search to find out, but I’d be willing to bet my meat eating habits on the fact that she may not look very good. Which may explain her affinity for animals such as dogs and cows.

I may not be the best person to postulate God’s real purpose for animals, people, and what they are to each other; but if there’s anything I’ve learned in the past month is that death is a part of life. And that each life, in one way or another, serves another in the natural order of things.

There’s a passage written by Orson Scott Card in Seventh Son that goes:

…he saw the image of a Red man, kneeling before a deer, calling it to come and die; the deer came, all trembling and its eyes wide, the way they are when they’re scared. It knew it was coming to die. The Red loosed him an arrow, and there it stood, quivering in the doe’s flank. Her legs wobbled. She fell. And Alvin knew that in this vision there wasn’t no sin at all, because dying and killing, they were both just a part of life. The Red was doing right, and so was the deer, both acting according to their natural law.

Or for the attention span deficient crowd: Mufasa had it right with the whole Circle of Life concept.

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On that note, I am really tempted to buy this book just to have more ammo in case the topic comes up again with my friends.