I
don’t know about
you, but by the time
my giddy up gets up
and gone, I’m worn
out and ready to
head for the barn.
It seems to me that
each and every day
gets shorter and
shorter and I have
more and more to
accomplish. I envy
people who seem to
have extra time on
their hands.
Like a group of
people who have
formed an
organization to
prevent abuse to
vegetables. Read
that again….I said
there is an
organization that
has been formed to
prevent abuse to
vegetables. These
people wish to raise
the status of
vegetable to the
same level as
animals and limit
any cruel treatment
to them.
They point out that
raising organic
carrots is a cruel
method since the
vegetables are not
protected from pests
and insects by the
benefits of
pesticides. Raising
vegetables
organically means
they are sometimes
actually ‘eaten
alive’.
This group also
promotes the use of
sterile, sharp
cutting blades to
end the unnecessary
suffering, pain and
agony to vegetables
as they are being
harvested.
I feel their pain.
I’m sure you do as
well.
Oddly enough this
issue came up today
on one of the daily
talk show programs
and this time it was
about the cruelty of
cutting flowers. The
gist of the story
was that flowers can
feel pain and that
we should cease
cutting roses for
Valentines Day or
Mothers day and just
leave the blooms
alone. The talk show
host went one step
further and asked if
these people
considered walking
on the grass to be
harmful as well.
After all you would
think grass has
feelings as well and
would probably
resent being stepped
upon. I don’t know
just how you would
go about determining
if this is true or
not, but I feel
certain there is
someone out there
who can tell us if
grass has emotions.
I’d rather not know,
if you don’t mind.
So, you know when
you put these two
groups together with
the groups that
won’t eat meat, fish
or fowl, it pretty
well leaves you
wondering just what
do some folks eat?
From the looks of
some of our ever
enlarging citizens
not everyone is
holding to this
philosophy. I have
to admit I have
eaten a lot of
vegetables in my day
and never once have
I ever thought about
whether they (the
vegetables) liked it
or not.
When
our kids were young,
my wife would buy us
a couple of lobsters
and then throw them
in the pool. The
kids played with
them for hours and
never once asked
what happened to
them. I don’t think
it crossed their
minds that their
playmates were on
the table those
nights. They (my
kids) don’t seem to
be suffering from
any long term
emotional problems
with our practice of
eating just about
anything. None of
them have ever been
in any trouble, so I
think I can safely
say that what we fed
them didn’t create
any type of criminal
mentalities.
I recall one of them
hated liver and
other didn’t like
oatmeal, but I don’t
think either one
swore off of
vegetables or
anything else. So it
must not have been
too hard on them.
Back to my question,
if you don’t eat
meat, fish or fowl
or vegetables and I
presume fruit
(apples must feel
pain?) then what do
you eat? Worms? No,
they live and
breathe. Dirt? Well
I guess you could,
but then you’d be
eating all of those
little tiny microbes
that we see in the
commercials that
tell us to keep
washing our hands.
That brings up
another point. You
think the folks that
are against
vegetables ever wash
their hands? Or
their teeth for that
matter? Every night
I am besieged with
commercials showing
me all of the
bacteria that
accumulates on my
hands and in my
mouth that needs to
be removed.
Don’t germs have
feelings as well?
There’s a project
for someone with too
much time on their
hands. Start up an
organization to
protect the rights
of all of the silent
germs.
I would bet you a
dollar someone would
be willing to donate
real money to
support this cause.
The sad part about
it is I believe a
lot of these people
vote.
