Who'll Carve the Fido?

[Guest guest]

In an amusing TV new filler, they showed a Turkey Farmer who cannot bear

to kill his birds, because his family names them and they become like pets.

 

They still go buy a dead bird at the supermarket for their meal.

 

I found this both hypocritical and amusing. Would you eat a meal of dog,

if it were offered? (Michael Palin of Monty Python, in one of his

subsequent shows, actually had dog offered him, in a Cantonese restaurant

in China, where they do indeed eat dog. He declined. Bravo, Mr. Palin.)

 

 

On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 06:37 AM,

wrote:

 

>> The hunter or farmer has a far better idea of what is

>> involved getting meat on the table than the person who picks it up at the

>> supermarket.

>>

I'm sometimes asked " Why do you spend so much of your time and money

talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men? "

I answer: " I am working at the roots. "

--George T. Angell, reformer (1823-1909)