Chuck Berry (left, photo by me) is playing at a bullfighting festival in Spain, and there's an on-line petition, signed by quite a few of my real-life rock & roll buddies asking him to cancel the booking. By all accounts it's a particularly nasty festival. To be honest, I can't work up any emotions about this. I eat meat, so why should I care?
But then again. Last week I cooked some pheasant. It was nice, but afterwards I thought about how that bird had died just for me to eat it. It was from a farm where I teach on Mondays. My Dad skinned it and I eat the breast, I cut it in half, filled it with sausage meat and wrapped bacon around it. Threw the rest away. .
Now, I know we are carnivorous. That's okay, but we don't have to kill to eat, do we? We do it because we like the taste. So a creature must die because we like the taste of something? Surely that's not right?
But I've eaten meat all my life, been bought up on it, so I get it down me. Bacon and chicken mostly. Hell, I've eaten all kinds. Haggis, tripe, snails, kangaroo, bison, loads of living things. But it's not fair is it? It's not fair they should die for me when I can have so much different, tasty, vegetarian options.
I shan't vote on the petition because I eat meat, so I'd be a hypocrite, wouldn't I? But I'll put a link so you know what I'm on about.
4 comments:
I wonder how many people condemn blood sports then go and have a MacDonalds 'happy meal'?
I think moraly, we should all be vegetarians these days.
Eating meat and killing for entertainment are two totally different things. I am surprised to read such a trash-comment by one of my ex-friends.
My point, Wolfie, (I'm assuming it's you) is that if we're going to be so radical about bullfighting, then we have to take on board lots of other causes, like battery hens, animal experiments and all kinds of animal rights. . . We can't just cherry pick one blood sport, say "oh it's terrible" and then fill our belly with meat from animals that have had no quality of life and are killed just because we like the taste.
I wouldn't go to a bullfight. Of course it's *wrong*, and I don't like the idea of foxhunting either, but until I'm a vegetarian how can I, hand on heart, talk with any real validity on animal rights? And that's what we're talking about.
Look at it this way. If innocent humans were being tortured and killed, whilst others were just killed, would you only say the tortured deaths were unjust?
Think about it . .
It reminds me of all those 'Rock Against Racism' and 'Rock Against Aids' concerts. All very moral I'm sure, but where was the 'Rock Against School Bullies' or 'Rock Against Testicular Cancer', 'Rock Against Cot Death'. . just sound silly don't they?
I think people cherry-pick causes based on fashion and knee-jerk reactions without seeing the big picture.
Yea, bulls die a terrible death in bullfights, but many many more animals live a terrible life, just for us to eat meat.
As an 81-year old wealthy legend I don't have to play a gig which is questionable to say the least. Of course there are many other horrible things happening, but I don't have to play a gig for it. He he cancelled so many gigs he did not like. Now it is time to cancel one in favor of many fans. I have not received one message in support of this gig.
Of course we eat meat. Many of these animals live and die under horrible circumstances. But we don't stand there and applaud it.
Yes, it is me, Wolfie. I love you anyway.
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