Erik Loomis has a brief blog post at Lawyers, Guns & Money on Ag-Gag legislation in other states. Readers may recall that an Ag Gag bill stalled in the Indiana General Assembly this session. It would have, among other things, penalized the surreptitious recording of agricultural operations.
Loomis says:
The agricultural industry and its political hacks in state legislatures have pushed for these laws around the country in response to videos and other reports of massive and disturbing animal cruelty taking place in our food system, both in terms of the general cruelty of the animals’ living conditions, but also terrible acts of individual cruelty against animals.
The recent Planet of the Apes movie (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) shows us that it’s in our own best interest to guard against individual cruelty against animals. Remember, that one zoo keeper was torturing apes to impress the ladies (I guess he couldn’t afford a cool car with a loud muffler) — Caesar gets pissed and storms the Golden Gate Bridge. Now, I’m sure that proponents of these measures would be just fine with an ape-ridden San Francisco because Nancy Pelosi, but Idaho and Utah aren’t really that far away, and before too long, the enraged-intelligent simians will make illegal Mexicans seem like a fond dream.
And those are our cousins from the monkey family. Imagine being under the jack-booted hooves of confined fed cow overlords. As Troy McClure noted in the Meat Council documentary, `Meat and You: Partners in
Freedom’, “Don’t kid yourself Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he’d eat you and everyone you care about!”
“Eat Mor Chikin!”
The Cowpocalypse may have already begun!
Cowpocalypse? Don’t cow lips go into hot dogs?
Glad I am Veg.
That MAY save you. Beefeaters, on the other hand. rofl
This just vindicates my choice to buy 99 percent of our family’s red meat — beef, lamb, pork — from a small operation, local Indiana farmer that uses natural methods, no big lot methods. I know how the animals are treated from birth until slaughter because of the transparency of their operation. They even go so far as to choose small processors that treat the animals gently all the way to the end. We have newsletters, pictures, etc., of the farm and their methods. We have even visited their farm. We feel this is the responsible way to be a consumer, and actually we consume less because we are more aware. It is actually easier to follow our meat through its process than to figure out if our clothes are made in sweatshops in a third world country or if the cotton in them is sprayed with harmful chemicals and picked by slaves in Uzbekistan.
Treat them gently then cut their fucking throats.