Spotted by JuliaM in the Daily Mail, but the original version in the Peoria Journal Star is better:
In October, a grisly accident occurred outside the west-central Illinois town of Cambridge. A truck veered off Interstate 74 and flipped onto its side in the median. Four passengers died inside the vehicle, while two others wandered into the roadway, only to be fatally struck by a pair of cars. Police never revealed the final resting place for the victims. My guess is, a slaughterhouse or backyard barbecue.
See, the slain "passengers" were cows. No humans were seriously hurt. And if you think I'm making a big deal of nothing here, then you don't see eye to eye with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Leaning on a little-known law [aka Tina's Law], PETA wants the state to erect a memorial in honor of the six cows. Ditto for 16 cattle slain in a wreck in May outside Chicago.
"We're fighting for cows who died," says PETA's Tracy Patton...
Tina's Law says "only a qualified relative of a deceased victim" can request a sign. It doesn't exactly explain what "qualified" means, but IDOT spokesman Josh Kauffman says the law implies people - as in relatives. So PETA is asking the state to waive that requirement.
"There's no surviving relatives in the meat trade, which sends millions of cows kicking and screaming to the slaughterhouse," says PETA's Patton.
I didn't know cows scream. Still, I can't imagine there's a statutory loophole big enough to allow cow monuments, regardless of PETA's stunts.
Sunday 1 January 2012
"We're fighting for cows who died"
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8 comments:
Why don't they just put one up themselves? Could it be that posing for the cameras demanding that someone else do it is so much more fun?
@dearieme
I know which genius said that only the invention of cooking made meat palatable:Shelley in A Vindication of the Natural Diet (1813).
And thus the struggle between man and bovine continues.
People
Eating
Tasty
Animals
AC1
D, was that the same God who created tobacco leaves?
CI, I'm waiting for PETA to demand that a memorial be erected for each poor innocent animal killed in a slaughterhouse.
DBC, but fire is one of our oldest discoveries. I imagine meat became much more popular once we realised the use to which it could be put.
JH, but whose side are PETA on?
AC1, I don't think that's how they meant it.
A fire is merely an external stomach.
AC1
I remember a humorous essay by Charles Lamb about a society in which it was forbidden to cook meat, but you didn't have to waste it if it got burnt by accident. There were a lot of accidents.
As regards the invention of fire and cooking,Shelley subscribed to notions from somebody called Newton (?) who believed that Prometheus was tied up to be pecked by an eagle because he invented cooking by taking fire from the Gods and so doomed Mankind to a life of depravity and ill-health by making the eating of flesh more palatable.(Since Shelley wrote Ozymandias, he can be cut a bit of slack).
As regards his Natural Diet :gorillas don't eat meat and chimps only a little although
they do eat the still warm flesh of Colobus monkeys ,which they sometimes chase and tear limb from limb.So what a natural diet for man consists of is a moot-point: comparisons to other primate species seems to indicate fruit as a common denominator.
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