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Thursday, May 15, 2008

So, while studying today I got a link in my CSS feed of a giant centipede eating a mouse. I read a lot of the comments and really got interested in this question of what is "natural." Some folks were upset because this invertebrate was eating a vertebrate, others because the mouse had no capabilities for escaping this seemingly painful death. On the other hand, monstrous centipedes are predators.

Then there was a whole argument about a human *wanting* so see this. Whether or not that person is normal.

I couldn't find myself on either side. A non-political vegetarian, who eats fish in abundance--I definately have *some* feelings about animal cruelty (i.e. feed your pets, don't wear furry things, don't beat your dogs). But I have never totally committed myself to a non-cruelty mission because I really haven't figured out what that means. I come from a family of hunters and fishers. I've seen animals (mostly fish) go from breathing to frying and had little problems eating them. On one occasion where I did catch a few fish, I felt so guilty about it--but mostly because I was a strict vegetarian then (so what was the point?). And furry coats vs. a nice pair of leather boots.

No, I haven't gotten my consciousness together about this quite yet.

But I'm wearing yellow today and the sun is shining. And sometimes what is right is what makes me feel good. So Darwin or PETA aside, helping baby turtles who usually have a less than 1% chance of living to adulthood get to the ocean... good. Sometimes little things need help.

uttered by a black girl at 12:34 PM. | 1 comments

1 Comments:

humans being drawn to "spectacle" is nothing new at all (hello Romans? hello freak shows?) so while the question of why we look or if it's normal to look has not been answered, no one should be in the least bit surprised that we do.

By Blogger fruitfly4, at 10:53 AM  

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