Fuck Greenpeace.

Damn, but I did hate typing that. I like Greenpeace. I love a lot of what they do. However, they've made a big fat fucking mistake here...

Greenpeace Calls for Kangaroo Slaughter

The one consistent thing these days about the Greenpeace Foundation is its inconsistency. Back in 1986, Greenpeace produced a film about the commercial slaughter of the kangaroos in Australia. The film was called Goodbye to Joey, and it denounced the wholesale slaughter of kangaroos. According to Australian Greenpeace spokesperson Trevor Daley, Greenpeace opposed the commercial trade of kangaroo products on ecological and moral grounds and stated that, "on a purely moral basis, we find it nauseating."

That was then, but today Greenpeace is actually calling for the commercial slaughter of millions of kangaroos as a solution to . . . global warming! Now Greenpeace energy campaigner Mark Wakeham is urging Aussies to eat kangaroo to help reduce land clearing and the release of methane gas. "It is one of the lifestyle changes we can make," Mr. Wakeham said. "Changing our meat consumption habits is a small way to make an impact." Obviously, Mr. Wakeham is not a vegetarian, which of course is the more positive way of changing meat consumption habits.

The proposal to commercially slaughter kangaroos is contained in a report, Paths to a Low-Carbon Future, commissioned and released by Greenpeace. Roughly three million kangaroos are killed and commercially sold for meat each year. They are shot between the eyes at night with high-powered guns. Greenpeace wishes to see this number doubled. Australians eat only about a third of the 30 million kilograms of 'roo meat produced annually. This "delicacy" is exported to dozens of countries and is most popular in Germany, France, and Belgium.

The Greenpeace report has renewed calls for the Australian state of Victoria to lift a ban on harvesting kangaroos for food. Kangaroo meat presently sold in Victoria is imported from out of the state. The commercial kangaroo meat industry has seized the Greenpeace report to strengthen its demand to remove the kangaroo slaughter ban in Victoria. Way to go, Greenpeace - saving the Earth by killing Skippy!

http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_071011_1.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0214-09.htm

"And some supporters of the group which has battled for decades to protect the world's largest animals are doing what hardliners find abominable -- eating whale.

Greenpeace last month launched an online travelogue -- the Whale-Love Wagon -- of Japan's whaling towns. In one episode, a Spaniard visits a grandmotherly woman's home to eat whale for the first time and politely tells her in Japanese it was delicious.

"We are making it very clear that we have no problem with Japanese culture or eating whale. We have never been anti-Japanese like the Japanese government always tries to portray us," said Emiliano Ezcurra, an Argentinian Greenpeace activist who helped design the campaign.

"But whaling in Antarctica has nothing to do with Japanese culture," he said." (more at link)

and, carnivorous.

shit,...a downright slaughter and food fest of roos and whales.

Thanks for the information. :-( :( :(

What the fuck gives humans the right thing to mass annihilate all species? And to slaughter and kill kill kill anything that bloody moves.

I feel the same for the farmed meat creatures daily. When I see the meat department in my local "friendly" grocery I say a silent prayer for the mass suffering and pain that produced those neatly wrapped cello packages of "fresh" lean ground. No antibiotics, no growth hormones it proclaims...but yet, I see the suffering of those breathing creatures jammed packed in their filthy cages gasping for .... please, just a little fresh air....forget food and water.... just immediate air.

But yet, I am living a lie. Because I buy food for my rescue pets that come from those farmed animals. I have this very sequence of thought every day I buy dog and cat food.

Where is the sanity in all of this? (sigh) I cannot find it.

I know I am off your subject. But, I also suffer knowing that just a few miles from me is the drop off point of all the unwanted companion animals to join the millions euthanized and crated off to be rendered back into feed and fertilizer. All because humans are into their own self grandiose immediate gratification. Damn it, I wish I had a pet sitter other than the one I have now who is a damn breeder of some kind of terrier that wins the AKC every year. Just the other day his wife let slip how they "culled " a litter. They make a living pimping those dogs.

Fuck everything else.

and fuck Greenpeace, too.

I am removing some stickers off my car today. I have several other orgs stickers I have pondered recently as well. I think I will remove more than just the Greenpeace.

I will keep one on though that states simply, "Pro life? Go vegan."

But, yes, thanks for that added bit of info for my repertoire. The nonending saga of humans against the beasts in coveting the land.

Sometimes I just can't contain the misanthrope in me.

Several years ago, our local Humane Society decided to offer meat at their events where food is served. Prior to that they had been vegetarian. I inquired as to their decision & they claim they get better turnout when they offer meat. That just blows my mind that the community will reach out more if there is meat at an event. :grr: I still support them, but I no longer attend their food events.

Have you checked out veggie pet food? It's not convenient, it's pricey & sometimes my guys turn their noses up at it & I have to revert to meat food for awhile. It's a quandary. The same that I discuss above with the Humane Society -- how do you justify helping one animal at the expense of another? You are right -- there is no sanity.

http://www.vegancats.com/pages/1175/Books.htm

Pro life? Go vegan. What a great sticker.

:hug:

...on a side note, I got a Greenpeace bumper sticker sent to me out of the clear blue this week. I'm thinking that I need to contact them, in order to let them know that I don't exactly jive on all their issues. Especially this one.