Meat is...

[thessalian]

The lengths to which PETA will go to make a point.

Dear PETA,

Thank you for once again demonstrating that fanatics are, by and large, about as smart as the tofu they consume instead of meat.

First, we are designed to eat meat. Maybe not as much of it as we do as a culture, but we are designed to eat meat. We have canine teeth for a reason. Suck it up.

Second, is there any point in going to a restaurant and harrassing the diners by waving lumps of dead animal in their face? Even if they did have any sympathy for you (which I doubt, since they're eating a flame-grilled chunk of animal flesh in the first place), they aren't going to have any once you've spattered them with the juices of their own dinner. If you want to get your point across, try sensible, well thought out speeches, not temper tantrums. And honestly, you're wearing a cow costume spattered in red paint. How seriously are we going to take you? I think the past few years should have taught you that terrorism (and that's what you're doing, albeit at low levels; you're trying to scare people into doing what you want, aren't you?) does nothing but get people angry and defiant.

Now, let's talk about your target. If it is your intention to make people ashamed of the way they're treating their fellow mammals, a chain restaurant is not the place to do it. It's likely that many of the patrons of the establishment in question have never even seen a cow in real life, and the waitstaff don't get paid enough to spend the hours before the restaurant opens personally butchering animals for the meat on the tables. If you want to save the animals, fine. Go picket a slaughterhouse. You'll do more good there. Or would that not get you enough publicity? If you're doing it because "no publicity is bad publicity", then you're in the wrong business. That's fine for actors and the like, or banned books. All you're doing is ensuring the whole world is watching while you make idiots of yourselves. And if you're trying to get the restaurant shut down, if you think that's going to help, you really do need medication of some sort. You're picketing a solitary branch of an international chain when you picket the Outback. If you get one place shut down, it'll probably be a McDonalds four months later anyway. It's like cutting off the head of a hydra.

Oh, and incidentally, calling KFC branches and insisting that the workers quit to shut down the entire chain? Not your best idea ever. The only reason people put up with the crap they get in food service day in, day out is the paycheque, and some PETA nutter is not going to get rid of them if the thousands of Entitlement Brats, drunks, scam artists and clueless morons haven't shifted them yet. All you're doing is adding one more shred of crap to their day by calling again and again and again during the lunch rush. Besides, if these people sympathised with you in the slightest, do you think they'd be working there?

In short, you may want to rethink. Try cute pictures of fluffy white lambs and big-eyed calves and baby chicks and so forth. Try not pissing people off. They'll start upping their red meat intake just to spite you, I guarantee.

Regards,

A guilt-free carnivore*

* technically omnivore, yes I know, but my parents do occasionally refer to me as a carnivore -- it's a thing from childhood involving embarrassing baby photos and I'm not going into it

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[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

If the Juju had meant us not to eat people, he wouldn't have made us of meat!
- Flanders and Swann, The Relucant Cannibal

[floopyboo.livejournal.com]

Omnivore.

I assume you have some carbohydrate with your serve of protein? That would be the roll your slab of moo comes on.

I have seriously spent way too much time with Lew & must move on to intellectual vegetables. Knowing too much about one subject is scary.