|
|
Post by Hermione on Mar 2, 2006 18:36:02 GMT -5
I hate to break it to you, but most of what you eat
Has been raised in pens and barns, solely for the meat.
It hasn't run around in fields or even woods or glens,
And I'd rather not eat something that's been stuck for years in pens!
|
|
|
|
Post by frizzer on Mar 2, 2006 20:01:29 GMT -5
I'll exalt you for breaking the bad news,
but listen carefully to my muse,
The conditions in which animals they keep,
Is definately enough to make one weep,
But I can safely say my freindly lass,
Eating steak is better than grass
|
|
|
|
Post by Hermione on Mar 2, 2006 22:17:34 GMT -5
Grass?! Yuck! I'm with you there.
If grass was all there was, my plate'd stay bare!
But the variety of foods that exists on this earth
Is such that there's no danger of such a dearth
Of wonderful things that are good to eat
Without ever touching a bite of meat.
|
|
|
|
Post by frizzer on Mar 3, 2006 0:00:21 GMT -5
Chicken and beef and pork and Ham
and even the joys of processed Spam
|
|
|
|
Post by Hermione on Mar 3, 2006 0:15:59 GMT -5
Bagels and donuts and berries with cream
Crackers and cheese are sufficient, I deem.
|
|
|
|
Post by frizzer on Mar 3, 2006 0:17:09 GMT -5
You say tomato
I say steak
(poetic liscence)
|
|
|
|
Post by Hermione on Mar 3, 2006 0:36:50 GMT -5
Lol!
You're welcome to steaks and roast beef, hot
I often use leather, so just call me the pot.
(As in, the one who called the kettle black? Eh, never mind.)
|
|
fontis
First Year, First Semester
Persephone: "She wasn't kissing your face, my love"
Posts: 21
|
Post by fontis on Mar 4, 2006 8:39:31 GMT -5
The sadest and harshest truth that I tell,
is when suffereing animals are tormented to hell.
They are used in laboratories to be tested each day,
for cosmestics and cleaners, the animals pay.
So next time you clean your kitchen or loo,
or use make-up when you want to look pretty too.
If you product's not BUAV approved, fear!
As the blood of the animals is on your hands, my dear.
|
|
|
|
Post by frizzer on Mar 6, 2006 3:23:33 GMT -5
I know, its wrong and sad in a way,
That animals suffer for us every day,
But, when, you're on tablets and feeling really flat,
you'll be ever so glad they tested that rat
|
|
|
|
Post by Hermione on Mar 6, 2006 5:17:00 GMT -5
I'd druther they tested on critters than people although it'd be nice if neither were needed. For frivolous things I agree, it shouldn't be, But life-giving medicines -the need must be heeded. (I'd like to add that this is solely my opinion and I don't mean to disrespect your stance; you have a very valid point, Fontis. I just couldn't think of a way to phrase it better while still making it rhyme. A poet, I'm not!  ) |
|
|
|
Post by frizzer on Mar 6, 2006 7:09:37 GMT -5
I also value most people opinions
(thats just a comment , I can't get anything to rhyme with it)
|
|
fontis
First Year, First Semester
Persephone: "She wasn't kissing your face, my love"
Posts: 21
|
Post by fontis on Mar 6, 2006 7:44:27 GMT -5
Firstly
Although I'm not much at politcal debate
I think you missed the point I did make.
However,
Thousands of Americans die each year
From drugs that the rats have deemed all clear
But hey, I mentioned not about drugs and pills
my grudge is against what I think are mear frills.
like lipstick & powder and bleech and even dog food
forgive me, but testing these just seems too crude.
(It's heartless and pointless -
Body Shop manage without doing it
so why can't companies like L'Oreal)
|
|
|
|
Post by frizzer on Mar 6, 2006 7:55:05 GMT -5
I totally agree
they sould use a bee
|
|
|
|
Post by justthisgirl on Mar 6, 2006 15:52:55 GMT -5
or I would insist
they use fish.
( I really dislike seafood)
|
|
|
|
Post by Torra on Mar 6, 2006 17:00:21 GMT -5
I'd druther they tested on critters than people although it'd be nice if neither were needed. For frivolous things I agree, it shouldn't be, But life-giving medicines -the need must be heeded. (I'd like to add that this is solely my opinion and I don't mean to disrespect your stance; you have a very valid point, Fontis. I just couldn't think of a way to phrase it better while still making it rhyme. A poet, I'm not! ) It's really not nice Actually a vice to think that we are more important than mice. (I refuse to ascribe to any line of thought whose logical extension was used by Hitler: We are good/valuable, they are bad/expendable) |
|
|
|
Post by Hermione on Mar 6, 2006 21:36:27 GMT -5
(Again, running out of rhymes.
But I know too many people who would have died without medicines tested on animals to NOT feel grateful that they exist.
And knowing them, could I really condemn the practice altogether? "No, you cured all my friends, so that's good enough, you have to stop testing new medicines now"? I can't do it. I don't like it, but I'll live with it.
I do agree completely, however, on cosmetics and other frills. There's no excuse for testing such things on animals.
And Torra, good point. I don't COMPLETELY agree, but it's still a really good point.)
|
|
|
|
Post by frizzer on Mar 7, 2006 4:20:48 GMT -5
Try to look at it this way,
its your right to think what you want and say what you say,
|
|
fontis
First Year, First Semester
Persephone: "She wasn't kissing your face, my love"
Posts: 21
|
Post by fontis on Mar 7, 2006 8:44:01 GMT -5
|
|
justthisguy
Third Year, Second Semester
Gryffindor Giver of Gifts
the answer is 42!
Posts: 478
|
Post by justthisguy on Mar 8, 2006 8:21:42 GMT -5
<completely not rhyming, forgive me but, the issue is quite volatile here. Granted we use animals to test drugs and cometics on but the benefits those test reap for us are very valuable. I do regret that the animals can and do suffer for us, and that very much pains me, shoot I hate to see a silly armadillo get run over, and will only hunt if I have to get meat for the table. Concentrated farming techniques are common where I live, home ground of Tyson's and Wal-Mart. There are hundreds of chicken houses and hog houses in this area to make the meat for your chicken breast filet or nuggets and the bacon or suasage on your McMuffin. Consider the world population growth and the demands for food . . . the concentrated farming techniques employed make sense in that light. I do think the practice of veal raising is cruelish, but I also to eat veal on occasion. the growth rate of our population and the expansion of cities is such that the arable land is being used for housing and new mini-malls instead of next years loaf of bread (x10K) or the lttle farmstead that had sold 6 dozen home grown eggs each week. I t is sad and regretable that we, Mankind, become as Mr Smith said in the Matrix, a virus on the planet . . . but luckily there are many of us that do our bit to help our Mother Earth and protect our dwindling resources of flora and fauna and stand up to the expansionists. I am one of those despite what I just wrote. I recycle, carefully chose where and what meats I buy and live as green as I can. I am now taking myself to the ToT for lecturing in this thread ,  sorry I know I desevre it, going now JTG> |
|
Dobby
First Year, Second Semester
Posts: 69
|
Post by Dobby on Mar 8, 2006 14:37:53 GMT -5
Humans a virus
now that is a bit of a bias
whatever could this mean
that indeed we are certainly not green
for this I must live wise and well and don't be mean
love the earth and all her charm
and for goodness sakes let her come to no harm
|
|
)
sorry I know I desevre it, going now