VEGAN POETRY

After ten years of struggle, I FINALLY ate my last piece of meat. My next struggle: Becoming Vegan. This blog will feature the ups and down on the long and booby-trapped road to a more compassionate way of eating. Fuck ups WILL be included.

Monday, August 21, 2006

FUCK FUR FUCK FUR FUCK FUR

I was tricked today. I was on the VERY popular youtube.com and was looking up whacky videos of Anna Nicole Smith. Just because.
I heard she did a PETA add for anti-fur.
It was very cool.
A play on Marilyn Monroe's Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend video - from the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes film.
The theme was "Gentlemen Prefer Fur-Free Blondes" - and I couldn't agree more.
Fake fur is JUST as nice as real fur.
Actually, no. That's wrong.
Fake fur is TEN TIMES *NICER* - in EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD - than real fur.
Anyway - I was watching this video - and suddenly - it switched to a mink farm.
I shut it off after 10 seconds because at first I had no idea what I was looking at.
I immediately BURST into tears.
If no one has ever seen a fur factory - I do NOT advise it.
But - perhaps you should.
When it comes to FUCKED UP SADISTIC BULLSHIT LIKE THIS - IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS.
How this is legal..is fucking beyond me.
These animals CRY and are left to squirm in IGONY while they are HUNG FROM THEIR EARS.
There is NOTHING - and I mean NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING humane about fur.
NOTHING.
It is fucking GOD DAMN REPULSIVE.
It is clothing - BRED IN PAIN.
Clothing TAILORED IN SHEER SUFFERING - and not just "slaughter-house suffering".
They should be so lucky.
This is slow, agonizing TORTUROUS suffering.

It is nothing ANYONE should see - but most importantly - nothing ANYONE should EVER fucking have to endure - so some person can show off a fucking status symbol.
People who wear fur and flaunt fur - need to be BOOED.
I don't care if you go home and eat a steak dinner.
I don't care if you eat chicken wings.
I don't care if fry up fish and poor vinegar on them and serve them with french fries.
But FUR is FUCKING HORRIBLE.
I stopped wearing my leather belt, my leather watch and my leather shoes as well.
But fur.
Fur is just fucking EVIL.
Rather than post disgusting and gross pictures of US classy humans torturing these beasts so their skins can make a cameo in a J-Lo video, I instead decided to post pictures my friend Danielle sent me.
Two animals - who are gentle - probably two of the most GENTLE creatures in the world - who are preyed upon by us for two RIDICULOUS purposes:
FUR and SPORT.
These are trophy animals.
To shoot a deer...makes you a fucking man.
You get a pat on the back.
You're on of the boys - for WHAT?!
Because you pulled out a gun, dressed up like a fucking piece of white trash GI JOE with your rich fucking office buddies and fucking snuck up on a sweet and KIND timid dear and SHOT IT when it couldn't even see you?!?!
Fucking cowards. Fucking Cowards. Fucking Cowards.
These creatures have NEVER done ANYTHING but set an example of how EACH OF US should be living our lives:
In harmony.
Peacefully.
We don't need to shoot them for clothes, for trophies, or even for food.
We do not need animals to sustain ourselves anymore.
Those days have come and gone.
We do not have to be HUNTERS to live.
We have evolved.
At least - we tell ourselves that.
But then I see a video like this - and places that still make THOUSANDS of dollars - not off fur - but off the suffering and exploitation of these animals who we disregard as "just rodents".
Yeah - so what? They are just rodents.
Let them BE fucking "just rodents".
Hell - let them be - period.

Ugh...I can't write anymore...it's just too horrendous to even believe that so many people ARE okay with this.

Dan

1 Comments:

At 9:48 PM , Blogger Anna said...

In a fit of disgust, I began to empty my favorite leather purse. I haven't seen it empty in a while. I've never read the tag: synthetic.

phew

 

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