About a year ago, I started a book review with these words: "Vegetarians -- particularly the animal rights activists among them -- have succeeded in adding guilt and shame to diners' helpings of pork, beef and poultry."
Some people didn't like that. One reader said my review was "condescending" and misrepresented the PETA perspective.
Well, I'll concede that opening sentence didn't give a complete picture. It didn't mention how PETA tries to scare us.
An example of PETA scare tactics came up this week, after news broke of a U.S. National Cancer Institute study that found red meats and processed meats may "modestly" hike one's risk of death from cancer and heart disease.
Note that the study found modest effects from red and processed meats, but not poultry, which was found to be beneficial.
PETA apparently didn't make note of that last detail. Its PETA Files blog declared "We told you so" and then hysterically pounded away with its "eat meat and die" message. No attention to the finer details of the study, no acknowledgement that the findings were about eating large amounts, no mention of poultry's health benefits. And no mention of how an editorial accompanying the study declares a need to reduce meat consumption and not eliminate it entirely. Just more scare-mongering from the blinkered vegans at PETA.
It's a wonder anyone pays attention to them.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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4 comments:
I completely disagree with you also Stimpy.
PETA has not induced the slightest bit of guilt or shame into my diet. I love pig, smoked, roasted or fried. Nothing like a nice fillet of beef to get one's salivary glands cranking.
I think vegetarians are whack jobs. Most of them are unhealthy puffy edemic bozos who need some iron and protein in their diet.
Vegetarians and PETA people want to ignore millions of years of human evolution. They let their panty waisted 'feel good' uber liberal, ultra groovy clueless bullshit get in the way of good health and nutrition and then want to force that bullshit on others.
Well, they've succeeded in guilting many of us. As for shameless carnivores like you, SH, I'm sure the fanatics will keep trying. They're fanatics, after all.
Sad thing is, there are good health and environmental reasons for reducing our meat consumption, and I think we all should give some thought to the predicament of other animals. (Not that we should stop eating meat altogether, mind you.) But the PETA wingnuts go ahead and turn people off from their concerns by their stridency and whackiness. They're not helping their cause when they put bikini-clad women in cages as a publicity stunt, or when they exploit a horrific murder and beheading on a Greyhound bus (last year in Manitoba) by comparing it to everyday work in an abattoir.
Thanks for stopping by, BTW.
PETA has always gone to the extreme. Just because they're fanatically decrying all meat doesn't mean that's what all vegetarians are like. Some of us actually believe it when we say "personal choice."
Anonymous: "doesn't mean that's what all vegetarians are like."
Agreed. That's why the post is about "my beef with PETA", not "my beef with vegetarians."
Personally, I'm a five-day-a-week vegetarian (for environmental reasons). But for some fanatics, that just ain't good enough.
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