Here’s a San Francisco news item that may or may not amuse readers. Animal rights activists are now targeting restaurant patrons:
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – An animal rights group said they would continue to target restaurants after one of their members stormed into a San Francisco restaurant and gave a tearful speech urging diners not to eat meat.
Kelly Atlas of Direct Action Everywhere entered Bluestem Brasserie and spoke out on the plight of her chicken Snow, in a videotaped speech that has gone viral. As of late Monday night, the video had more than 573,000 views.
Atlas and others said they want equal rights for all animals, not just cats, dogs and other non-food species.
“All animals” would include mice, rats, insects, worms, coral, and jellyfish, although it might unfairly exclude microorganisms. I mean if there are to be equal “rights,” why stop with insects and worms?
Shouldn’t the same rights be enjoyed by the hepatitis, AIDS, and Ebola viruses?
This narrow approach strikes me as animalcentrism.
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Question for animal rights wackos:
If you had a tapeworm would you:
a) Have it killed?
b) Have it surgically removed and released into the wild? or
c) Leave it where it is so it can have a warm, loving home?
To paraphrase Harry Bosch, either all animals are equal or none are.
A waitress at a famous vegan raw food restaurant here in Berkeley told me that eating bread was “cruel.” She said: “When you bake a loaf of bread, you kill a quarter million live yeasts.”
Does yeast have rights?
If you think eating bread is cruel, consider the cruel fates that are routinely visited upon trillions of yeasts in distilleries, wineries, and beer breweries!
“When you bake a loaf of bread, you kill a quarter million live yeasts.”
I hope she doesn’t walk around. Or eat plants.
(Or, more snarkily, distil or filter or chlorinate her water. Cholera will fix her moral dilemma for her, I guess.)
This political-Vegan madness seems, fortunately, to be self-limiting, at least around the edges.
I hope she doesn’t have an immune system. Any normal person’s immune system is killing invading organisms, -bacteria, virii, yeasts and ghod knows what else- by the billions every day.
Those poor little oppressed staphylococci with their big brown eyes.
Raw food restaurants here in Berkeley tend to be very expensive as well as preachy. The last time I ate at this place, lunch for 3 cost me $120!! I told my sister, who made me take her there, that I would never eat there again. I don’t want to name the place, but Eric knows where it is.
They do make and serve something they call bread at this place, but its more like a cracker. Its made of grains chopped up, soaked in water, and then pressed into flat sheets. Its edible, but that’s all you can say for it, except for this…..
No yeasts were harmed in making this bread.
I feel the same way about marriage. it’s become solely a legal contract vehicle to transport benefits to a designate of your choice. Why not a dog, a horse, your own father, or several of the neighbors? What’s love got to do with it, indeed.
May I wish you a happy 60th birthday, too.