[87] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Get 'Em Early
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (espiekos@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 14 23:43:03 1994
From: espiekos@MIT.EDU
To: vsg-summer@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 94 23:42:38 EDT
While we're on the subject of things found on other lists, I thought I should
post this little tidbit I got off of VEGGIE. It makes me break out in a
cold sweat. It reeks of indocrination and I agree with the poster that
the same thing from a vegetarian point of view would *never* be allowed in
schools.
Let me know what you think:
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On Sun, 12 Jun 1994, Peace wrote:
>
> It's a very sick world. I believe if people saw commercials every day of
> animals being slaughtered, if they saw a Disney movie featuring "Bessy
> the Happy Cow" and then watched her trucked to McDonalds I SWEAR TO YOU,
> NO ONE WOULD EAT BESSY (or very few). People don't think about where
> their meat comes from. It might as well be a loaf of bread, since it
> neither looks like an animal or shows evidence of being in pain.
>
The canadian association of meat producers have
EXACTLY such a comic, which is sent in the form of "classroom information
kits" to schools all over canada. It is narrated by Bessie herself,
describing how she's very well fed and taken care of, with lots of
smiling faces all around. When she's sent off to slaughter, the whole
thing is very vague (no one stops smiling), and skips right to the
butcher shop. Somehow,
Bessie is still narrating the fact that the butcher is highly skilled at
preparing the meat, so that youre mother can come in and buy some quality
flesh to cook for dinner. Seriously.
The whole looks more to me like a PETA parody, but it isn't - it's very spooky.
The fact that this is sent
to our kids in the guise of 'free information kits' is an obvious attempt
to sway the kids away from vegetarianism, which has been growing very
rapidly, at least in my experience. Perhaps they thought it best to use
this device before a vegetarian society did, some sort of political
disarmament.
They have laws against tobacco and alcohol ads aimed at children - yet
they allow an obviously manipulating literature right into the
classrooms, and I bet you don't see an opposing vegetarian viewpoint very
often...
> We need to flood the airwaves with TRUTH and that will set them free.
>
Yup, and soon.
Cheers,
salo
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<<ESP>>
P.S. It's nice to see a little traffic on this list
