Re: Sanitising literature
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:42 pm
Marty I couldn't agree with you more.
Enid Blyton would be spinning in her grave over what has been done to her stories.
Baa Baa Rainbow sheep have you any wool? Man what are they on? I have seen white sheep, black sheep, black and white sheep but I reckon the only people that have ever seen Rainbow sheep were experimenting with LSD. Black is simply a colour. I can't understand why talking about shearing a black sheep can in any way be considered racist except by "idiots."
I live on a small farm and each year we had a steer killed on the property and then the butcher would hang it in a refrigerated van and return a week later to cut it up. Now my second oldest daughter watched the process of killing and gutting one year. Admittedly it is not the most pleasant process but for the animal they walked into the yards straight from the paddock and it was over in a split second. No getting carted away and being banged about, hot in the truck etc etc. I think it is the best way if an animal is going to be eaten, it is the kindest you can be given the circumstances. Anyway after watching this she vowed to become a vegetarian. I explained to her that just because you don't see an animal die and get cut up doesn't mean it doesn't happen. The meat in a supermarket comes from the same process but it is often not such a pleasant journey for the animal to get there. You need to understand that for us to eat meat, an animal dies somewhere and doing it the way we do here is the kindest we can be to our animals.
The vegetarian status lasted to the first steaks were cooked.
Let's face it; people have to understand the consequences of their actions. If you don't tell a city kid milk comes from a cow then what do they think? Eating a roast has cost the life of an animal somewhere. Throwing rubbish into the ocean can kill wild life. A lion eats a gazelle to survive. There is cause and effect for everything and unless we explain these to the next generation what are we going to end up with.
Darren
Enid Blyton would be spinning in her grave over what has been done to her stories.
Baa Baa Rainbow sheep have you any wool? Man what are they on? I have seen white sheep, black sheep, black and white sheep but I reckon the only people that have ever seen Rainbow sheep were experimenting with LSD. Black is simply a colour. I can't understand why talking about shearing a black sheep can in any way be considered racist except by "idiots."
I live on a small farm and each year we had a steer killed on the property and then the butcher would hang it in a refrigerated van and return a week later to cut it up. Now my second oldest daughter watched the process of killing and gutting one year. Admittedly it is not the most pleasant process but for the animal they walked into the yards straight from the paddock and it was over in a split second. No getting carted away and being banged about, hot in the truck etc etc. I think it is the best way if an animal is going to be eaten, it is the kindest you can be given the circumstances. Anyway after watching this she vowed to become a vegetarian. I explained to her that just because you don't see an animal die and get cut up doesn't mean it doesn't happen. The meat in a supermarket comes from the same process but it is often not such a pleasant journey for the animal to get there. You need to understand that for us to eat meat, an animal dies somewhere and doing it the way we do here is the kindest we can be to our animals.
The vegetarian status lasted to the first steaks were cooked.
Let's face it; people have to understand the consequences of their actions. If you don't tell a city kid milk comes from a cow then what do they think? Eating a roast has cost the life of an animal somewhere. Throwing rubbish into the ocean can kill wild life. A lion eats a gazelle to survive. There is cause and effect for everything and unless we explain these to the next generation what are we going to end up with.
Darren
