[4animals] News covering Bardot in Ottawa....

[vaalea]

It's a trick!

In the Larry King show this happened:

WILLIAMS: Paul, I've said to you, you also have to look, there are 6 million white tail deer that are being killed in America. There are 200 million cows that are being slaughtered... 

P. MCCARTNEY: Yes, but you're getting off the issue. 

H. MCCARTNEY: You keep going off it. 

P. MCCARTNEY: We're here to talk about the seal hunt. 

WILLIAMS: There are 2 billion chickens that are being slaughtered. Why is the fuzzy seal photo-op the important one? Why aren't you down in a slaughter house where cows are being killed or calves are being killed or lambs are being killed or chickens are being killed? 

H. MCCARTNEY: Think about it. OK. Let's forget that you don't care about the humanity. 

WILLIAMS: It's quite obvious...

KING: One at a time. 

WILLIAMS: It's the easy photo-op where you can get the best picture, so, you know, it's obviously that... 

KING: Danny, let her speak. 

H. MCCARTNEY: How can your accountants not look at a 129 million lost in snow crab exports to America. One hundred and twenty-nine million lost snow crab exports to America. Sixteen million is the lost... 

WILLIAMS: Heather, if you and Paul have your way -- if you and Paul take your argument to where you want to go with it, the Red Lobsters will close, the McDonald's will close, the restaurants will close because they all sell beef or poultry.



Basically they are telling the public that if you support the McCartneys and others against the seal hunt, they will make you all go on a salad diet. Which from our side sounds fine... people should say no to killing seals and then they should come to understand that if they are against clubbing seals, maybe they should also be against slaughter houses. But enough people are going to say "well, I like meat, so I have to support the hunt."

If you don't care about farm animals you are a hypocrite, and if you DO care about farm animals, well.. you're an extremist.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pamela" <pamela_bjcu at yahoo.ca>
To: "For animal welfare/rights information and events." <4animals at ottawaveg.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [4animals] News covering Bardot in Ottawa....


>I was most irritated by a letter to the editor
> wondering why activists don't seem to have a problem
> with the treatment of other baby animals, such as farm
> animals (trying to show that McCartney, Bardot etc.
> are hypocrites).
> 
> um, yeah, most of us do. The celebrities who have come
> out against the hunt are vegans, which shows
> tremendous concern for all animals. And they are also
> involved with many other aspects of animal advocacy. 
> Heather Mills McCartney is the honorary chair for Farm
> Sanctuary's 2006 gala, for example. 
> 
> The problem isn't hypocrisy on the part of activists;
> if anything, it's a biased media who chooses to ignore
> any animal advocacy issue outside of those that
> involve cute animals. They will never cover issues
> pertaining to farm animal advocacy, because that
> challenges society's values too much.
> 
> 
> --- vaalea <v at vaalea.com> wrote:
> 
>> The news on Bardot's Ottawa visit can be found here:
>>
> http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=bardot+seal
>> 
>> This quote's a gem:
>> "For outsiders to come and tell sealers that they
>> don't need to participate in an activity that feeds
>> their families shows a deep misunderstanding of the
>> issues," said Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for Canada's
>> federal fisheries ministry."
>> 
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure that thieves feed their families by
>> stealing... that makes it ok?
>> 
>> 
>> ( that quote is messed up on so many levels)>
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