another anti-foie gras action

[Guest guest]

You can call it “economic sabotage” and find plenty of

other colorful euphemisms, but the word for what these

people are perpetrating is vandalism. Vandalism done

to cause hardship and suffering to people, with the

justification that said people are causing suffering

to animals.

 

While I find the production of foie gras abhorrent and

horrifying, I fail to see how inflicting this type of

damage stops the chain of abuse and suffering that

continues daily. The ducks whose bloated livers were

destined to be served on a plate in this restaurant

are still being tortured, eventually to be served at

another location. What it does show, is that the

vandals have no qualms about using the tactics and

techniques they are protesting,, in order to inflict

pain on fellow humans. It may not be the type of

physical pain that the ducks suffer, however the end

result is similar. No solution is created.

 

For every 25 people who are out there educating others

and raising awareness about the horrors of raising

animals for consumption in this manner, it only takes

1 action such as this to push the dialog back and

create hostility and anger instead of understanding

and cooperation.

 

By staying silent, those of us who oppose this type of

action are tacitly condoning it. We passively destroy

our vision of a non-violent world, free of suffering

and torture. If compassion is to flourish, we need to

offer it most to those who display it the least.