Friday, January 14, 2011

Life without lobster, my dear, just imagine!

Winning support for Animal Rights was never going to be easy. We live in a conspiracy of misinformation which suits almost everyone, because it allows us to be speciesist, which in turn allows us to buy the animal foods we want.
While vegans are trying to defend abused animals, non-vegans are trying ‘not to give a damn’ about them. The educated food lover wriggles in an ethical quagmire, sinking deeper each day by using bits of dead animals to cook with. They might practise the pseudo art form know as ‘cuisine’. Animal-cuisine lends gravitas to food, transferring sensitivity (for animals) over to the aesthetics of taste sensation. This cuisine ignores the ethical provenance of foods and emphasises the ‘food quality’- the origins of animal foodstuffs are unimportant. It’s the indulgence in them (savouring them and salivating over them) which is important. The omnivore gastronome drools over foods, especially the wealthy who can indulge themselves in the exotic without a single thought to the obscenity of what they’re eating. Our favourite fleshy foods must not (“and will not”) be given up lightly - life without lobster is unimaginable.

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