Ashley Judd and Sarah Palin are going at it! Ashley has become the champion of so many causes that I don’t know how she remembers her name. Here’s a new one for you Ashley: Bats are dying of incurable fungus in the Northeast! But the reason for her most recent attack is her disdain for Governor Sarah Palin’s love of hunting – a way of life in the wildness of the Alaskan frontier. Let us all preach to the Alaskan Eskimo that they can’t kill for survival and see how far we get. Her efforts are funded by the Defenders of the Wildlife Action Fund. latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2009/02/sarah-palin-fal.html group Is this a laudable group? As a vegetarian, I should say so. Two things in my childhood killed my love of eating meat. The first, witnessing my sweet little granny wring a chicken’s neck while it’s body hopped headless around the barnyard and the second was a visit to the stockyards with my grandfather and witnessing the unbearable suffering of cattle being slaughtered. Check out both links to understand why Ashley Judd and Sarah Palin are going at it, i.e. both perspectives: www.wowowow.com/post/palin-bites-back-ashley-judd-animal-activists-195494
What I find hypocritical is the double standard issue. For instance, unless Ashley Judd is a strict vegetarian – what right does she have to criticize hunters? All living beings suffer incredible agony when slaughtered. Let’s see, wonder how many Big Macs (cattle), McNuggets (chicken) and hot dogs (pigs) have the Judd clan porked out on during family sing-a-longs? Who is there to defend the cattle, chicken and pigs? Frankly, I don’t care what other people eat because IT’S THEIR BUSINESS….but going after hunters when you are perpetuating the slaughter of all animals by eating them is hypocritical. Ashley Judd and Sarah Palin going at it seems to me a big waste of time. I think I’ll pack a lunch, get on my bike and take a ride along the countryside. You guys be happy too – find something to make your hearts bounce a little!
NOTE: ASHLEY, If you want to set an example for the killing of animals – then look to yourself.
Attila the Honey
St. Basil the Great (329-379)...we remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.” St. Basil the Great (329-379)
