The food ban, and stupidity.

Foie gras has been banned for a while because of "animal cruelty" laws. For those who don't know what foie gras is, I will briefly explain. It is the liver of geese which have been fattened by forcefeeding - the forcefeeding is done by inserting a nozzle and hose down the goose's neck and then pumping corn and whatnot directly into the stomach. The goose's liver becomes fatty, and the goose is then killed, the liver being turned into foie gras. The rest of the goose is eaten/sold at market. Such is the circle of life.

Foie gras is also fucking delicious. It is one of the greatest things in the world, in terms of sheer culinary impact. The taste of foie gras cannot be likened to anything else in the food kingdom...it is similar in texture to a pate, but the taste is rich and earthy, thick with a perfume that suffuses the mouth and nostrils, and which becomes something other than what it begins as. For those of you who don't eat meat, I'm not shitting on your dietary choices, so please stop shitting on mine...don't ban something you have in all probability never even eaten.

Whether or not the geese are actually experiencing pain is highly debated, to the point where this writer is certain that the ban exists because people just don't want us to kill any other animals. Animal friendly PETA members fail to understand what pretty much every other creature on this planet instinctually understands - every animal wants to kill every other animal. That is how nature works. The fact that other animals taste delicious to me is just a bonus, the proverbial "icing on the cake".

Morally, my argument is "who gives a shit about animals?" I posited my theory about PETA recently, and had a friend become violently angry. I said that people care about dogs and cats and other animals because animals can be owned. Humans can be confident in their dominance over these cute creatures that depend on them for survival - it is simply a power issue that makes people so eager to help animals. And yet those same people will ignore the homeless, the sick, the mentally ill. They will ignore these subsets of humanity because you can't own another person, because those other people might not be grateful, might never allow you to own the direction of their lives. It is a fairly common feature of humanity that we desire control over some small part of the universe, if only to truly ascertain whether we exist or not. It is also a fairly common feature of humanity that we become thirsty for power once we taste a little bit of it. Humanity is really only seen in a life where it does not exist - the ability to kill and indulge in the terrible things of this world are really what define us as a species. The murder trait is more endemic than any other in our world, it simply manifests in different ways for different people.

I would like to think that people could simply mind their own damn business and let other people do what the want to do. In a perfect world we would all be responsible for ourselves and that is all. This is not a perfect world in the slightest, but I like to think that we are trying to get there, even when the evidence is so obviously to the contrary.

So PETA, vegetarians, liberals who are only liberal when you agree with their opinions, fuck off. Nobody cares about you. Nobody loves you. Nobody ever will. A friend of mine described a girl he described as "sweet" as being very easily offended. This girl was ostensibly a hippie, open to the world...and yet when another friend said something he believed in, she decided that she hates him. I was only mildly surprised - most people are too stupid to actually understand a concept and stick to it. Kudos to the guy who said something she found offensive. To the girl and the other guy, fuck off.

Of course, now I am getting angry and invalidating my point, though not really. Ironic, no?

-Rich
sometimes we forget about labels