Category — Animal rights

Obviously this PETA guy doesn’t have any children. And never will…

With all the arm waving over multiculturalism, why is it not valid here. Like I mean, you know dude everything is soooo equal!
The unhinged left believes diversity is righteous, except when it conflicts with their beliefs. Forget not too, that this “animal lover” abused and tortured five “Flippers” for money!

Dolphin slaughter brings charges from both sides

TAIJI, Japan (CNN) — Ric O’Barry sometimes dresses as a woman or wears a large surgical mask to disguise his Western identity on trips to spots overlooking the ocean.

He prowls the cliffs near Taiji, Japan, with a video camera, hoping to catch fishermen doing something that appalls him: catching dolphins.

“This here is ground zero for the largest slaughter of dolphins on planet Earth,” says O’Barry, who trained five dolphins to play “Flipper” on the TV series of that name. “It’s absolutely barbaric, and it needs to stop.”

Offending this clown and all the diversity dummies is the best reason to persevere with “doing the dolphin.”

Fishermen hunt dolphins almost every day in Taiji, a town of about 3,000 in southwestern Japan that juts into the Pacific Ocean. Watch fishermen catch dolphins »

Locals know that they offend Western sensibilities by eating dolphins, but they say it’s a tradition hundreds of years old. And they say outsiders have no more right to tell them to stop eating dolphins than they would have to demand that Westerners stop slaughtering chickens or cows.

“I know there are many different ways of thinking in different societies, but for us who’ve been eating this for a long time … it’s an awkward thing to be criticized for,” says Kayoko Tanaka, a retired middle school teacher. “I either fry dolphin meat or turn it into a stew.”

O’Barry says the dolphins face a cruel fate.

“It takes a very long time to die. They bleed to death. And some of them are dragged in the boats with hooks while they’re still alive,” he says. “Many of them are gutted while they’re still alive.”

OK, so what’s your point?

To some puzzled people in rural Japan, the question comes down to this: What’s the difference between killing and eating a dolphin, and killing and eating a fish? Or a chicken? Or a cow? [snip]

Many Japanese consider the deer a sacred messenger from the gods, he says, but they would never suggest that people in other parts of the world stop venturing into the woods on a quest for venison.

“We don’t like to play God to say, ‘This animal is just for food, and this is not,’ ” he says. “Because we know, nation to nation, we have totally different ideas.” [snip]

Representatives of the Taiji Fishermen’s Union declined requests for an on-camera interview. So did the town’s mayor and several others. And O’Barry says he’s gotten into a few shouting matches with fishermen, who resent him and his camera.

So what does O’Barry say to their claim that he has no right to tell them to abandon a tradition that has flourished in their corner of the world for more than 400 years?

“If someone came to my hometown and told me what to do, what to eat, I’d be outraged,” he says. “But that’s not going to stop me from doing it. I mean, tradition? It used to be traditional for women not to vote. So do we keep that going because it’s traditional and cultural? Of course not.” [snip]

Answer this, If the dolphin are so smart, why do they there, producing excellent tempura?

This guy spent too much time underwater without oxygen.

BEIJING - A U.S. animal rights group Thursday condemned a plan to kill all pet dogs in an anti-rabies campaign in a district of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing.The Humane Society of the United States/Humane Society International said in a statement that a vaccination campaign would be a better way to control rabies. [snip]

Officials have rounded up dogs in other cities, such as Beijing, in a crackdown on strays and unregistered pets. [snip]

This will be the biggest barbecue in a long time. Bring your appetite, chopsticks and dog sauce. More noodles please!

My mother used to call me the “cookie monster” when I was a kid. Of course, she had good reason to, and it wasn’t just because I watched Sesame Street every day. So I was particularly saddened to see this news over at NRO.

…according to the well-meaning social engineers of PBS. After three decades, they’ve announced he’s not a Cookie Monster at all. In the interests of teaching kids not to be gluttons, CTW has transformed Cookie Monster into just another monster who happens to like cookies. His trademark song, “C is for Cookie” has been changed to “A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food.” And this is a complete and total reversal of Cookie Monster’s ontology, his telos, his raison d’etre, his essential Cookie-Monster-ness.

If the Cookie Monster is no longer a cookie monster, what is he? Why didn’t they just name him “Phil: The Monster Who Sometimes Likes to Eat a Cookie”? Conceptually, this is no different than the idiot animal rights types who want their dogs and cats to be vegans, too. Cookie Monster cannot help being a Cookie Monster any more than your tabby can stop liking fish. It is their nature to do so. Why not just declare that Big Bird is now an elm tree? If the ineffable, inexorable, immutable nature of Cookie Monster’s cookie-eating can be erased for some good cause, why should Big Bird’s birdness be safe?

Sesame Street and its defenders say they are just trying to do their bit in the war against child obesity. That’s nice. But at what price? The whole point of the Cookie Monster character was to have a character who was silly because he ate so much. If Cookie Monster were a Greek god, he’d be the god of gluttony. Wouldn’t it have been more honest and simply better to implore kids not to be too much like the Cookie Monster rather than make the Cookie Monster like everyone else? We all understand we shouldn’t be like Oscar the Grouch.

Who says that making Cookie Monster into moderate eater will improve kids’ behavior anyway? Indeed, for years, Cookie Monster has devoured not only cookies, but things which merely look like cookies, including plates, Frisbees, and the moon. If Cookie Monster is so influential, why haven’t I heard more about kids going to the hospital after trying to eat plates?

What is the world coming to when we take the fun out of eating cookies! And what ever happened to personal responsibility. Although I loved cookies, my mother always did her best to control the amount I ate (I say “did her best” because I was very sneaky at finding ways to get my hands in the cookie jar).

All I can say, is when I have kids, they won’t be watching Sesame Street (unless I can find reruns from the 70’s) which has become nothing more than liberal indoctrination.

Long live the Cookie Monster!