GLEAMS UNRAVELLED

Prologue: This is definitely not a blog a Vegetarian would prefer! And it’s NOT intended to hurt the Vegans.
~ Sincerely, A non-vegetarian.

It is a pleasant Monday evening and I am inside my office shuttle. I open my eyes wide to find KFC and McD boards outside Total Mall in Airport road, Bangalore.

McD – Chicken Nuggets, Chicken burger, Chicken burger, Happy lunch meals for Children...

Wait, I am feeling Déjà Vu. I have seen Ronald Mc Donald happily holding a knife in the cover wrapping the sandwich. where was it?
It was in PETA’s webpage!!
McD I am loving it  PETA says ‘Mc Cruelty I am hating it’.


PETA – People for ethnic treatment of Animals having a huge (Really huge) number of volunteers and supporters all over the world including many actors and famous personalities campaigning for the ethnic treatment of Animals. Not to mention my favourite actor (Guess who?:)) also is an ambassador for PETA .

PETA ,an animal rights organisation originally formed in the year 1980 in Virginia and focuses on the following four issues - farming, fur, animal testing, and animals in entertainment, and also campaigns against fishing, the killing of animals regarded as pests, the keeping of chained backyard dogs, cock fighting, dog fighting, and bullfighting. Later this animal right organization spread so widely that it went against Eating Animals.

The slogan of PETA being “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on or use for entertainment”.


My points here:

Animal testing – I strongly agree . Animals are so cute , they are yet another living organism be it reptile, amphibian, mammal or whatever ! Testing should not be carried out on animals. So what’s the alternative that PETA suggests.E.g.: It says test an eye solution on a dead man’s cornea instead of a Rabbit’s eye.Hmm , Interesting !

Animals in entertainment - horse race, bull fight, cock fight. PETA says NO to all this. And also “Zoo” is a strict NO-NO. Zoos do not allow animals to exhibit their natural behaviour it seems. Come on shut the zoo ! ! Let go all the animals . Let tiger wander around the streets of the city.

Animals in clothing – Animals’ skin should not be used in Clothing. No leather, no fur says PETA.Visit http://cowsarecool.com to know more. So what to wear or carry as an accessory .Shop for products looking for buzz words like "manmade leather,” “all-manmade materials,” “pleather,” and “synthetic” ,“synthetic down,” “down alternative,” “polyester fill,” or a high-tech fabric like Primaloft .
Quite difficult ,I only look for the Price tag while shopping ;) But May be followed.

Now coming to the main point that I want to focus, ” Do not eat animals.”

Let’s say I stop eating chicken ,and KFC,McD is shut down . No one eats animals. All the humans turn Vegetarians. So the animal population keeps on growing. The plants are destroyed because all the vegetarians keep on eating them .


Remember what we studied in school science. The food chain and the ecosystem . The energy flow in the ecosystem .

The transfer of energy happens from one to another and that is how the balance is maintained in the ecosystem. series of steps of consuming and being consumed, energy flows from one trophic level to another.

The plants consume sun, animals consume plants,and human beings consume animals.. and it goes on .When I don’t consume animals what will happen to the ecological balance ?

In a world where everyone is worried about global warming, saving the planet etc why should Non-Vegetarians be the reason for creating an imbalance in the ecosystem ?

So I am not against PETA , but I am sincerely putting in all efforts to maintain ecological balance .

So is McD, KFC and all others who kill animals for enabling the ecological balance !

Point to be reinsisted. I support PETA ! Let’s stop using products that uses animals, that does testing on animals ,etc and support PETA .


PS : My favourite actor is Maddy !!! :)