Bioethics, healthcare policy, and related issues.
I really loathe PETA, for lots of good reasons.
But that can take many forms, one of which is mocking, in appropriately childish fashion, PETA’s own tactic for pressuring corporate chicken-torturers [sic]. They have a Web sign-generator site in which they encourage people to post comments about Kentucky Fried Chicken’s practice of, as they put it “tortur[ing] chickens for profit”. Whatever the hell that’s about, it interests me far less than the fact that PETA, as a group, is offensive and abusive to real people, whom I care about far more than the animal fetish-objects that are their sole obsession. So if we’re going to make little signs about cruelty and inappropriate moral priorities, well, let’s get our inappropriate priorities straight, first:



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April 9th, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Let me go ahead and get the obligatory “People for the Eating of Tasty Animals” reference out of the way.
With that done, carry on…
May 16th, 2008 at 10:18 PM
The Center for Consumer Freedom is not a reliable source — it’s essentially a front for the meat industry.