Burgers And Dogs, Yummy!
Someday, I'm sure; we'll see an organization for the fair treatment of vegetables. Because, after all, doesn't an apple feel pain when it's plucked from the mother tree?
I guess there is a minor uproar over the fact that 6 dogs died while running the Iditarod. PETA and others, I guess, are attempting to have the State Of Alaska investigate this cruelty. Now I know things are slow up there, but I'm thinking Sara Palin (gotta love this official Alaska web site) isn't going to spend too much time on this one. I'm probably a little biased, being as our own, the Bid D, is a professional musher and all. PETA is an organization comprised of vegetarians (sorry Cuz) who think it’s inhumane to kill chickens and cows and eat them. They're against using animals for entertainment. I'm sure they're the ones behind the initiative that eventually put hundreds of workers out of a job by closing down the two dog-tracks in this state (Mass.) by leading people to mistakenly believe that racing dogs are mistreated.
Now, truth be told, I'm not big into hunting. I like to fish, but at some point, the cruelty to the fish will be the focus of these nut-bags. You wanna know what's cruel? The thought that someday there will not be any place for a dog to run free, or a lion to hunt its prey. The thought that these animals will all be extinct in the wild and in a cage somewhere, or in someone’s apartment eating a special mix of cat-chow. What's cruel is watching a Chihuahua, on a leash, on a sidewalk, on the subway,
on 5th Avenue having a turd while hundreds of people walk by and try not to watch, and then chuckle as its owner, in his Christian Dior suit, bends over to scoop the shit into a baggie and carry it home with him. It's cruel to think that someone keeps a cat or a bird or a gerbil, penned in their apartment for their entire life, for their owner's entertainment.
Racing dogs, mush dogs, horses, cows, chickens, pigs, whatever will be mistreated at some point, just like humans. Maybe those dogs in Alaska were "run to death" by an "unprofessional" musher and it should be addressed by racing people. Wahey Boy, Big D, dropped out of the Yukon Quest because his dogs were sick and he refused to jeopardize their well-being. The point is, that for the greater majority, these animals are well cared for and happy to do what nature intended, run, kill, mate, make milk. At the same time, they create jobs and revenue and keep the economic wheels greased with their blood.
So go wash the dog and have a burger.
POSTED BY STAN at April 2, 2009