rolf harris wrote:
Young men can do silly stuff, as do young women. We can make sweeping generalizations and anticipate that we know these people personally but we don't. It doesn't excuse killing another innocent creature but hey I had a hamburger for dinner, I love eating lamb and veal tastes pretty good too. *insert vegetarian comment here*
In the grand scheme of things does having the internet as a tool to track down these guys and make their lives shitty for a week make much sense? Why not direct that anger at the large farms and companies that slaughter animals daily for huge amounts of profit?
Sure get your revenge on these guys, post abuse on their social media, expose them to the media to name and shame them. Somewhere around the world young men and women are doing something silly that they probably shouldn't be right now.
I'm sure most people agree that torturing and killing a defenceless animal is a cruel and utterly needless activty. It should be remembered though where this type of behaviour can lead if it isn't dealt with in some way. If I'd done something nasty (like this) and my face ended up all over the internet with loads of people baying for my blood & the old bill after me I'd be thinking my life is gonna be made shitty for perhaps a lot longer than a week. They got caught anyway, although I don't know the outcome, hopefully they had to endure quite a lot of grief.
Yes the meat industry is a horrible & cruel process but obviously plenty of people will always argue that it is necessary and natural (which in its current state it clearly isn't, and if most knew the truth they would have to reconsider the term 'natural'). So this engenders a kind of response where people try to bury their head in the sand about what goes on and are just happy to stuff their faces with the insides of dead genetically mutated flesh rather than give much of a toss about how brutal it is. Although people have reared their heads over the horse meat saga - which goes to show that it could be anything put in these products and people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Yet show a picture of some idiots torturing a dog & everybody is instantly up in paws about it. There is always somebody up to something no good in the world that's a given, that doesn't mean people should no nothing. I doubt the rot will ever stop...
