Griffin Daily News
GEORGIA'S GREAT OUTDOORS
August 23, 1998
Ronnie Garrison
Garrison is going to eat his hotdogs....
I got a good laugh at the TV news Wednesday night. The Oscar Mayer weniemobile was in Atlanta hosting tryouts for the commercials they do with kids. That was not the funny part - what I found so silly were the animal rights flakes - er, folks - protesting at the site.
The television camera crew did a good job shooting from angles that made it look like the protesters had a good crowd. I counted seven adults and one child.
I don't know why they would not show the whole protest "crowd" in one shot other than they wanted to make it look like a bigger deal than it was. I am pretty sure there were more people there for the tryouts than there were protesters, although they did not show the lines waiting for the tryouts.
The protesters were saying people should not eat meat. They had cute little signs like the one with a pig on it asking "Does your dinner have a face?"
Another protester was dressed in a pink pig costume - I guess that was supposed to make me not want to eat a hotdog. That is somewhat unlikely since I eat animals I have shot, cleaned and cooked and also eat fish I have caught, cleaned and cooked.
The most telling part of the newscast to me was the statement by a little girl that looked to be about seven years old. She was there with her mother and was asked why people should not eat meat. Her reply was "you might get heartburn from it and die."
I don't doubt she was taught that by her mother and her mother's fanatical animal rights friends. I do doubt that very many people eat meat, get heartburn and die.
I love the way animal rights fanatics decide where to draw the line on using animals for themselves - and then want to tell me and everyone else to conform to their standard.
Many animal rights folks keep "companion animals," known to normal folks as pets. Others in animal rights groups say it is not right to keep "companion animals" but don't seem to condemn the members of their group that do, they only condemn people outside their groups that keep pets.
If people really believe animals should have rights, they should carry it to its logical conclusion. Why stop with not eating animals with faces? Do they eat shellfish? Some will eat eggs and drink milk, others do not. Some even wear leather products!
To really be committed to animal rights, it seems they should respect all animals and never take actions that would harm one.
Driving a car kills insects - are they animals that should be protected? And driving always involves the chance of hitting a deer, dog or possum, no matter how carefully you drive.
Even walking carries the danger of crushing a bug or a worm. Maybe animal rights fanatics should never go anywhere!
Most drinking water has been purified with chlorine - to kill all the little animals in it that can make us sick. Surely animal rights folks would not drink purified water, therefore condoning killing all those animals. Of course, if they drink unpurified water their stomach acid kills most of the little animals in it so, if honest about their desire to not harm animals, they should not drink anything!
Many animal rights folks are vegetarians - they eat only plants. In almost every case, even under the most stringent organically grown crops, animals die in the process of producing the food these folks eat. They should stop eating anything since animals die if they do.
If animal rights folks never go anywhere and never drink anything and never eat anything, we will not hear much from them for long. I am sure they think this is silly and they draw their line at some point, deciding it is OK to kill some animals under some conditions.
I just demand the right to make those decisions for myself. I promise I will never try to force one of them to eat a hotdog - but I will eat a hotdog whenever I want one.
Till next time, Gone Fishin'!
