PETA Goes Amityville Horror

Not yet, but PETA is close to owning the famous house in Long Island that is on the market for $1.5 million US, after being the subject of several films and novels. Why, you may ask, is PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, interested in owning a house of horrors? Simple, to create a meat industry themed house of horrors, revolving around the true horrors of the process of making meat. Rather than a typical exhibit, with pleasant music playing in the background, the exhibit will feature the roaring sounds of whizzing blades, and the occasional blood curdling scream of an animal being slaughtered. If you have ever wondered what a pig in captavity feels like, then you have the oppurtunity to step inside the metal cages a pig would stay in, which are horribly tiny. Animatronic hens and fish will also be seen in the exhibit, which would be suffering, of course, due to limited space and fishing boats. Weapons/instruments for the industry can also be touched by guests, including a third degree inflicting cow prod, used to shove cows towards slaughter houses. If this doesn't sound child friendly, do not fret, the guests will receive a doll with good ol' Ronald McDonald, as usual, wielding a knife and covered in blood, as he is the face of "McCruelty". I have opinions, to say the least, on the matter, but here is the link.

I wanted my last blog to come back to the importance of the treatment of animals, but after this story, I think it is also important to shed light on the insanity of extremist groups. I support PETA, have joined their newsletter, signed petitions, helped campaign for their causes with friends, but this is just nuts. It is a peverse farce of a musuem, which will teach people absolutely nothing, because going about things in a terrorist like manner will only make people think less of your ideals. I have told numerous people that pig captavity cages are so small that sows crush half of their baby piglets in captavity, because one slight roll will suffucate them, as their isn't enough space. PETA can use their words, and the horrors of animal abuse will come out, but they don't need to make a circus freakshow out of a famous landmark to make a point. Anyway, here is the link for PETA. I hope you have enjoyed my slightly ecclectic choice of stories, which would be quirky to say the least, and that my blog gave you information and a few laughs along the way.

Fighting for Lucy's Freedom

Lucy is a 34 year old female in a confined area in Edmonton, and is also an Asian Elephant. PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, well known for their controversial and effective campaigns ("I Would Rather Go Naked Then Wear Fur" Campaign, or their recent mime seal clubbing around Vancouver), is getting ready to sue the city of Edmonton for the way the Valley Zoo is treating her. The zoo, run by the city's government, is kept in an area all by herself, that is cold enough to give her severe arthritis, so small she's become obese, and have concrete floors so vile to plague her feet of serious infection. Poor Lucy is also suffering of an undignosed respiratory problem, which is very likely related to her treatment. Clayton Ruby, Torontonian, raises the question that keeping Lucy at all is also an improper way to spend the city's funds, when they are already scarcely making their snow removal costs. This case will go to court on March the first, and we will see if Lucy gets her salvation afterwards.

By looking at the rest of my blog, you can tell that as a vegetarian and animal lover, I am disgraced by the maltreatment of animals, especially foreign or endangered ones. This is such a horrific example of a shady zoo, treating animals like money making machines, and not giving them actual care. Also, Asian Elephants are considerd an endangered species, with an average of 46, 877 of them left in the world. As a nation we consider to be civilized, it is our right and duty to treat animals like true inhabitants of this earth, and the fact that we are putting so little importance on the wellfare of these fantastic animals is disturbing. If they don't want to care for them, they should not have them in posession to begin with. With the treatment Lucy is getting, there is absolutey no reason for her to still be in this prison. To conclude, Lucy and any other animal who is treated a fraction as badly as her deserve to be brought somewhere else, where they can be actually happy, because the way she is treated now is certainly not the what is right. I would say you should look at this beautiful animal, and realize it's your duty as a citizen of the world to at least spread the word and tell your friends and family that this injustice is happening. Many publications are talking about it, but PETA has a page on it here. Hopefully Lucy will get the freedom she deserves.

Click here for a petition to save Lucy!