Animal Liberation

If you're looking for a really controversial topic to bring up around the water cooler in these last days of the summer job, take a look at PETA's "Animal Liberation" website, and try to understand the basis behind some of their arguments. Pictures of elephants in chains being compared to pictures of african slaves in chains. Get it? We're bad people. We chain up the animals and the animals deserve to be free. Pictures of animals being housed like cargo, likened to pictures of immigrants being housed like cargo. The insinuation that the lynchings of hundreds of thousands of black people are somehow equivelent to the slaughter of a bull for meat. And the message? Liberate the animals. The cows, chickens, Indians and African Americans alike. Love them all, and let's treat them all like they deserve to be treated. Just because they're animals doesn't mean they don't have feelings ...and get yourself a vegetarian starter kit while you're at it.

I don't know what to make of it, other than that while radical underground rumblings are usually heaving society in the right direction, sometimes they make me question how far we've really come.