[lbo-talk] good morning my fellow ecosystems

[John Thornton]

Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 12:06 PM 4/16/2009, John Thornton wrote:
>
>> If PETA could drop the moral condemnation of all meat eaters and 
>> instead focus on improving the conditions of animals used for food 
>> stocks that would be great.
>> Hell, I'd offer my time and money to support their cause.
>> But they do not intend to do that. They instead seek to impose a 
>> meatless morally superior world-view on everyone else. Fuck that.
>
>
> Here's some quotes from Ingrid Newkirk, PETA founder and president:
>
> Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face 
> of the earth.
> Washingtonian magazine, 1990 February 1
> Reader's Digest, June, 1990
>
> I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having 
> children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; 
> it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
> New Yorker magazine, April 23, 2003
>
> Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.
> - Vogue (September 1, 1989)
>
> I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have 
> any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would 
> rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake 
> stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything
> The Washington Post, 1983 November 13 

I am however cautioned not to take this personally.
What exactly is a purebred human?
Are their hybrid humans somewhere?
Has she met a Centaur, Mermaid, or Alkonost somewhere?
She is correct about one thing, she sounds like a fruit-cake.

John Thornton