[Sca-cooks] Re: Back to PETA,

[Aurore Gaudin]

*Stands up and cheers, clapping*  I'm back to eating my Crunch and Munch and
reading emails.  Aurore
>
> The thing that they forget, while they're getting all self-righteous, is
> that their whole existence is compromised. Do they drive? The fuels they
> burn are damaging the environment, not to mention contributing to our
> dependence on foreign oil, which feeds into the war machine- *and* most of
> that oil comes from countries that treat women worse than animals. Biking
> isn't so bad, but what's on their feet? Shoes of leather? Of course not-
> they'd rather wear shoes made of vinyl or rubber. Vinyl is made of
> petrochemicals (see argument above), and rubber production contributes to
> the deforestation of the rain forest. In addition, there's the
> environmental damage done by the factories and processes involved in
making
> either vinyl or rubber into things we put on our feet.
>
> Clothing? Cotton is sort of ok- at least if it wasn't treated or dyed in
> the factory, or sewn by some 9-year-old in Bangladesh, who earns 50cents a
> week and may or may not get a meal today. Hemp? Bully for them. Same thing
> about the dye or treatment (they put chemicals on fabric in process, to
> keep it moving through the machinery smoothly. Usually it washes out).
> Polyester? Go back to the thing about petrochemicals. And do you know what
> production of synthetic fabrics puts into our sewers and waterways? Ugly!
> Fish grow extra limbs! Bugs die! Guys like Rush Limbaugh crawl out of the
> primordial stew and imagine that they are intelligent beings!
>
> How about the care of that clothing? Water, soap, wear and tear on the
> washing machine, *electricity*- that's a big one. How many fish died so
you
> could run your washer or tv? (Ok- I live in Oregon, where nearly all of
our
> juice is hydroelectric- damn dams.) Coal fired plants? How 'bout nuclear?
> Did some sweet lil PETA member forgo her morning ultra-organic,
> cruelty-free, rain-forest-friendly coffee to save a few atoms and a
> buttload of atomic waste that NEVER GOES AWAY?
>
> She'd better stop eating things out of cans, things that are
vacuum-packed,
> things that are wrapped in plastic or paper (pulp mills! talk about
> nasty!), better start wearing clothing braided from her own hair, stop
> using electricity, gas, oil, stop burning wood (there's bugs in there, you
> know! Poor darlings!). Maybe a hut on a rock somewhere, provided she can
do
> so without depriving that snake from it's favorite place to sun itself...
>
> Hand me that leather jacket and shoes, and cut me a callop! I'm
unrepentant
> in my omnivore status, and I refuse to buy their line of BULL. Even if
they
> don't want to eat it. Life is made of compromises, and this is one of
them.
> They aren't seeing the whole picture, and the hypocrisy annoys me. If they
> prefer not to eat animal products, cool. but they can cut out the
> 'holier-than-thou' stance. It only means they are ignorant of how
> interdependent this world is. You cannot opt out of part of it and think
> you've avoided it altogether.
>
> Done with my rant. Now back to our regular programming (But that felt
> really GOOD!)
>
> 'Lainie