The standard bacon-loaded Bullshit … (06/24/17)
What follows is a concise representation of a conversation I have had dozens of times over the past 3 years and 364 days — a conversation that is always instigated by me posting about the enormous (and enormously unjust) suffering endured by pigs at the hands of humans who are either unknowing or uncaring, and a conversation that then gets rolling when a particularly callous (or especially embarrassed) individual responds with something akin to “Mmmmmmm … Bacon!”
What follows is how the last one of these conversations went for me … May you appreciate both sides of the discourse, and then may you be thereafter inspired to go forth and actively side with Compassion over cruelty … Amen — Let it be so.
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Me: [posts about the vile & fully needless suffering endured by millions of pigs the world over, including a picture similar to the one picture here]
“Daryl”: That reminds me, I need to buy some more bacon.
Me: Daryl, you might be interested to know that bacon jokes (any jokes about animal cruelty, actually) are NOT funny in the least, and only expose their tellers as being either disturbingly ignorant or disgustingly immoral … I highly recommend outing yourself as neither in the future … Peace.
“Daryl”: I wasn’t joking … I could be more understanding about peoples “feelings” about this subject, but I see more people complaining on face book than I see people actively trying to make a difference — a lot of people just jumping on the band wagon without realizing that 90% of the things they touch in modern society are made from animals.
Me: How odd that you cannot get that this isn’t about “feelings” but facts — the FACT that animals suffer terribly (and unnecessarily) to slate your primitive palate pleasures, the FACT that you eating animal corpses will indeed bring you a shorter life that in all likelihood will (justifiably) end in horrible pain, the FACT that the 6th Mass Extinction Event is already on its way to wipe out most of humanity in horrific fashion, and the FACT that destroying the cruelties of the animal agriculture industry is the only way to stop the same from happening … How can you not do even the modest amount of research required to realize these Truths for yourself? … Maybe it is because your own feelings are getting in the way. Are you really this uncaring, or is this simply a cry for attention? Are you really this callous of a “human being”, or are you simply afraid to show others you are moral and that you do indeed Care?
“Daryl”: I do care, I think the way the animals are tortured and the way they are slaughtered is horrible. But growing up poor, and only being able to eat what you catch, or kill, I don’t see eating animals as wrong.
Me: If economics is now your excuse of choice, a hollow excuse it remains. Going vegan is exponentially cheaper than eating milk and dairy … Peace … And by the way, as this post points out quite clearly. there is no “right way” to do a wrong thing.
“Daryl”: That depends on how you fry it.
Me: Nope … Causing another to suffer for your mere pleasure is the epitome of wickedness, I’m afraid — and there really is no way for you to get around that fact … P.S. I you really cared, you wouldn’t be eating bacon at all, much less be making jokes about the same … Peace.
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