Why don’t you get a job you tree hugger?

This is a new one to us here, I’ve asked a few activists if they had heard this question before and I struggled to find one. Seriously though, it is true some activists are unemployed – some through choice, some through illness and some are “in between jobs”.

Most however are employed in various professions including, teachers, doctors, lawyers and various other “upstanding” positions within our society not to mention many working in service industries and other sectors. These people might also not fit into the various stereotypes of a skinny white student with dreadlocks and a body odour problem that can usually be found tunneling under a proposed bypass in the countryside.

Some activists are unemployed through choice because they don’t wish to be a part of a system which uses public taxes to fund the very exploitation they are fighting hard to stop. Some don’t wish to work in jobs which force them to make decisions which compromise their ethical integrity.

Many activists use all their spare time working to stop the exploitation of animals, humans or the environment. The same sort of people were suffragettes, fought for the abolition of the slave trade and brought about massive change which we sometimes take for granted but benefit from on a daily basis.

The government are delighted however whenever the general public make such statements about the protest movement as it shows an underlying apathy which in turn, allows them to make new legislation which takes away our fundamental right to live as free people in our own country.

First they came for the Communists,
- but I was not a communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists,
- but I was neither, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews,
- but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
-  Pastor Martin Niemöller

But our teeth were designed to eat meat?

The fact is, our teeth can bite through flesh, this week know, however our teeth and system cannot handle the hide of animal, real omnivorous animals will eat the hair skin and flesh of the animal killed. If it were possible for us chase a fleeing animal and then take the animal down and bite through the skin to the flesh with tools then we might be a more natural omnivore.

What is natural though, some people might say that the fact that we developed tools and systems to kill bacteria from meat (e.g. cooking) that this is in fact our natural progression as human animals. I agree. However just because we make it possible does not make it right, therefore our teeth were no more designed to eat meat than our hands designed to choke our neighbors or hold the gun which murders our fellow human.

Simply put. We don’t know if our bodies are designed to consume meat. One thing is sure, that is, meat causes more health problems, cancers, diabetes, osteoporosis and heart disease than a vegan diet by a long shot.

Chris

But without farming cattle for beef or milk there wouldn’t be cows?

I’m not sure why this is asked so often, how the hell can someone who eats animals need to see them in the field first or stand at a gate with the kids giving out an “Ahhh” when the calves become curious or want to eat grass from your hand. Surely anyone who wants to toy with or watch a creature which is soon to be killed is slightly weird if they are about to be complicit in that murder?

Its weird, I have pondered upon the question of where I would like to be born into a live of misery or not born at all. I cant say I have come to a conclusion – although I think I am leaning towards the latter choice.

If you think its nice to see cute animals and then turn your back and shout “LA LA LA LA” at the top of your voice as not to hear them be milked or slashed to death in a farm then you are kidding only yourselves.

There is a lot of evidence which says many farm animals (sheep especially) could live in the wild without our influence as deer do currently. I’m not sure if cows might be able to live a wild existence after many years of poor husbandry, they are a grazing animal not that dissimilar to the wild American Bison so who knows.

Chris

But Hitler was a vegetarian?

It is a very common belief that Hitler was a vegetarian. First off before I blast the reality canon into the “Hitler was a veggie” question. We should address the reason why people might want to associate the non consumption of meat as a genocidal manifestation of a psychopath. The simple reason is: a lot of meat eaters look for a reason not to take vegetarianism and for that fact veganism seriously as it implicates that they continue to do something morally wrong.

Now onto the hard facts:

Hitler was advised by his doctors that he should cut out meat due to his health and tendency to sweat profusely and let rip during speeches (seriously). But the reality is he is a vegetarian if a veggie is someone who eat meat quite occasionally.

Here are a few more facts, Hitler wore clothing, Hitler liked the countryside, Hitler had a “pet” dog – Surely these criteria fit the profile of a weekend genocider. Lets say for argument sake he was a vegetarian, So what? For every vegetarian mass murder 99.9999999999999% of other Psychopaths, Genocidal maniacs and murders eat meat.

I wont go into the fact that Vegetarian Society members in Nazi Germany were thrown into concentration camps for their radical views (even if they were in-line with Hitler?).

Thanks

Chris