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

Fri Mar 24 04:29:15 UTC 2006

I read the newspaper today and was ready to bite the head off of the poor
woman next to me, I was so made. These are really good points. Why not write
to the editor of the Citizen saying yes, we care about farm animals, we care
about animals being killed for their fur, and we believe that animals have a
right to live in and of themselves. Here are some good quotes:

"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but
to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast
long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.  ~Leo Tolstoy

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human
being.  I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the
human body.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs.  We live
by the death of others:  we are burial places!  I have from an early age
abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look
on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.  ~Leonardo
da Vinci

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its
gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage
tribes have left off eating each other....  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden,
1854

  -----Original Message-----
  From: 4animals-bounces at ottawaveg.com
[mailto:4animals-bounces at ottawaveg.com]On Behalf Of vaalea
  Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:10 PM
  To: For animal welfare/rights information and events.
  Subject: Re: [4animals] News covering Bardot in Ottawa....

  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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