PETA vs. Aiken |
Loading ...In a recent Rolling Stone interview American Idol second season #2 Clay Aiken was quoted as saying: “There’s nothing worse to me than a house cat. When I was about sixteen, I had a kitten and ran over it. Seeing that cat die, I actually think that its spirit has haunted me. I wasn’t afraid of cats before. But now they scare me to death,” Aiken told Rolling Stone.”
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) response? Let’s get an ad campaign going if Clay doesn’t apologize for his “negative comments he made about cats” with the slogan: Get Neutered, It Didn’t Hurt Clay Aiken
Dan Mathews, vice president of PETA said: “If Clay Aiken intends on staying famous, he has to learn to take a joke,”
Couldn’t the same be said of PETA? What’s wrong with not liking cats? Running over them with your car isn’t a good idea, but saying that one dislikes (ok, he used the stronger word “hate”) cats is not being insensitive to animals, is it?
We live in a culture that compulsively demeans Animals. Perhaps by doing so, it attempts to ‘justify’ all the pain and suffering it routinely gives them. To keep numbing the guilty sensations that would otherwise eventually emerge into the light of consciousness. That would not be good for the most destructive Industry on Earth in terms of Health and Environment, the world’s largest and richest Industry, a huge purveyor of false and misleading propaganda - the Animal parts vendors. Humans, despite the fantasy of many, are Animals too. And they are also often the victims of pain applied in the pursuit of short-sighted selfish goals. By not respecting all forms of Life, we’re setting ourselves up for unprecedented horrors.
Comment by logspirit — December 4, 2003 @ 3:34 am PST