Wednesday, July 04, 2007

On animal rights, quoted.

"We only want to save the cute animals, don't we? Yeah. Why don't we just have animal auditions. Line 'em up one by one and interview them individually. "What are you?" "I'm an otter." "And what do you do?" "I swim around on my back and do cute little human things with my hands." "You're free to go." "And what are you?" "I'm a cow." "Get in the fucking truck, ok pal!"

So electrocuting pigs is cruelty? Is that because the pig thinks so, or because it makes the human uneasy? While animals are incapable of articulating thought, humans may or may not be justified in making decisions for them.

The wisdom and objectivity of said decisions are also questionable at best.

Like the incident where two activists opened a pen to free some captive pigs.

That's right, they got trampled to death.