[Sca-cooks] Re: Back to PETA,

[Elaine Koogler]

You rock, Lainie!  Thanks for saying all of the things I've been saying all
of these years.

I'll never forget one college student who was visiting us some years back.
She was very critical of the fact that I had a coyote fur edging on the hood
of my cloak.  I pointed out to her that a)it was probably 50 years old,
having originally been used, I suspect, as a collar on a coat, so I was
actually helping the environment by recycling, and b)fake fur is made of
petrochemicals which do more to damage the environement and kill animals
than the occasional use of a piece of real fur.  Unfortunately, she didn't
buy any of it.  So I casually asked her what her belt and shoes were made
of.  Leather.  Hmmm....isn't a cow an animal?  She's never thought of that.
She didn't belong to PETA, so hadn't gone so far as to reject the use of
cowhide or wool.

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 5:21 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Back to PETA,


> At 10:22 PM 1/15/2004, you wrote:
> >Well, the thing is, that these people just don't think. If tomorrow,
every
> >American became a vegetarian, just what would happen to all these uneaten
> >animals? Would they be turned out to starve? Or "killed humanely" and
thrown
> >in a pile to rot?No doubtr, they'd expect the farmers raising them to
care
> >for them for the rest of their natural lives- and try to legislate it.
> >Trouble being, that the farmers woulkd quickly starve to death, including
> >the big corperations.
>
> 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
>
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