There's much talk among caring, pro-animal persons of the
less-than-noble appeal of PETA's 'street tactics' - and 'the PETA
Street Team' MAY be, with those tactics, attracting some vegan-eating
young persons with less than noble motives themselves.
But let's look with them and all participants in the conversation at
just how filthy food production, and meat production in particular, is
in the Western World (not that it's 'cleaner' anywhere else!).
Filthy Feed
from Vegan Soapbox - The Feed by Eccentric Vegan
“In areas of the United States where large cattle and poultry
operations coexist, poultry litter is routinely fed to cows. Poultry
litter consists primarily of manure, feathers, spilled feed and bedding
material that accumulate on the floors of the buildings that house
chickens and turkeys.” source: FilthyFeed.org
A new website explains farm animal feed:
“Back in the 1960s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) –
the federal agency responsible for protecting the public health –
banned the use of poultry litter as cattle feed. In 1980, however, the
FDA lifted the ban”
“The disease-causing bacteria and other toxic substances present in the litter are dangerous to cows.”
“Unfortunately, no amount of processing will remove infectious proteins that are responsible for Mad Cow Disease.”
So given the questions about moral filth:
PETA & PETA fans: "What's wrong with nudity?"
Maynard: "There's nothing wrong with nudity itself?' I'm
nude in the shower every day, and that's a pretty clean thing, I
think. It's how that nudity is paraded in front of the general public
that I find distracting from thinking about the ETHICS of our
relationships with nonhumans and the ecosystem that we all share with
those nonhumans."
-- yes, meat production is filthier in tangible, material ways that
really MATTER (and the double entendre is intended), and we can do
something about opposing meat production at all levels.
They’ve got a petition you can sign, but until or unless things change, you know what the safest response to this information is:
GO VEGAN!
But the question about cleaning up PETA remains and will remain, long after all animal agriculture is abolished, unless they 'clean up' their act sooner.
I suggest they DO clean up their act sooner rather than later, since
the war sounds from the exploiters make this look like a very long war,
not just a trivial skirmish about social and moral values.
I think we have NO wiggle room to feed the notion that animal rights activists are on the wrong side ethically.
