Mary had a little lamb
May 9, 2008 by Polly Styrene
There are probably very many reasons why Paul McCartney should be dragged off to the Hague and tried for crimes against humanity, “Mull of Kintyre” is only one of them. Just as bad however is his support for PETA . And the fact that he may only be doing it to get back at Heather “rat milk latte” Mills, is no excuse really. Ok it was a bitter divorce Paul but you’ve still got £775 million, or £375 million depending on who we believe. Just be grateful the entire nation isn’t suing you for the emotional distress caused by ’The frog chorus’ to part you from the rest of it. But not only are Peta sexist and racist they appear to have now lost the plot completely. The Times reports that they have offered $1,000,000 to “the first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012″.
What? The PETA fanatics are now not only objectifying everyone except rich white men in their struggle to convince people they shouldn’t eat meat, they are going to grow it in laboratories if that doesn’t work. That sounds really not like something out of a scary science fiction film doesn’t it? What’s wrong with vegetables PETA? Combined with say pulses, and cereals, you can have a perfectly nutritious diet. You may be lacking vitamin B12, but you can always eat some Marmite to make up for that, or pop down to Holland and Barrett for a supplement.
No this veggie says enough - I could really fancy a bacon buttie. So I hereby issue my challenge to PETA. Stop the madness now. Or the pig gets it.
“Or the pig gets it.”
But see Polly you gotta hit ‘em in the guttural–where it counts!
So instead you’d say “Or the naked, objectified, sexualized woman gets it!”
“The PETA fanatics are now not only objectifying everyone except rich white men in their struggle to convince people they shouldn’t eat meat, they are going to grow it in laboratories if that doesn’t work. That sounds really not like something out of a scary science fiction film doesn’t it? What’s wrong with vegetables PETA? Combined with say pulses, and cereals, you can have a perfectly nutritious diet.”
I always have this uncomfortable feeling that when PETA or other animal rights activists compare the oppression of animals to the oppression of women or racial/ethnic minorities, that there is this subtext of “the animals deserve the rights more than the women or racial/ethnic minorities”.
Even though I think that meat-eating is bad for the environment, I’m not going to go around telling people in India and China to stop eating meat when most of them haven’t been able to have it, ever and we (in the US and probably most of the Western world) have been gobbling it for decades. So that’s why *I’m* taking it on myself to give up meat, because I’m a middle-class Western person who can afford to do it without a lesser quality of life or health.
That’s why I linked to that blog LM which is an animal rights blog that actually seems to get it - there is even a post comparing PETA with post modern feminists(!) in their approach to commodification of women. Women are far more likely to be vegetarians than men, but PETA persists with it’s sexist crap. That’s why I think we should have a “veggies against PETA” day. We should all e-mail them and tell them we’re going to eat (non laboratory grown) meat if they don’t STFU with the sexist racist crap.
I like this from the animal rights blog.
[...]by coupling sexual imagery with images of violence toward nonhumans, these campaigns attempt to eroticize animal exploitation. We live in a culture in which violence, and particularly violence against women, is eroticized in a variety of ways. Perpetuating this, and extending it to the exploitation of nonhumans, is deeply troubling”
Is this the only way to instigate change…by ‘eroticizing’ it? Is this what we are reduced to?
LM says.
“I always have this uncomfortable feeling that when PETA or other animal rights activists compare the oppression of animals to the oppression of women or racial/ethnic minorities, that there is this subtext of “the animals deserve the rights more than the women or racial/ethnic minorities””
I agree. I frequently get challenged on my feminism, which for me is a lot about simple ethics. Now I wouldn’t dream of confronting someone on their ‘vegetarianism’ (I’m also a vegie) yet is seems okay to challenge my ethics surrounding what feminism stands for.
I need more caffeine…babble.
What do I know? I have a never-ending war against slugs going on. My ethics stop at slugs.
Polly, what’s with the major evol — I clicked on the main YouTube, my ears, my ears. You owe me two seconds now.
It is part of my get McCartney in prison where he belongs campaign Stormy….