My New Favorite Billboard Ad
Earlier today, I discovered this gem of a billboard ad on my way home from the Arsenal Mall in Watertown, MA:
It’s awesome. I couldn’t have said it better myself. In fact, I think my friends should all donate their pets to medical science. It constantly amazes me how passionate people are about animals. We eat them; we keep them as pets; we feed them to other animals; take them from their natural habitat; displace them; hunt them; and we kill them. Still, people claim to love them.
Actually, my favorite kind of people are pet owning vegetarians. “I won’t eat one or kill one, but I’ll make one live in my house, eat from a plastic bowl, and walk around with a collar around its neck. Awesome. You are so close to having a point!
I understand the arguments: we’ve been doing it for ages. Dogs have been domesticated since 15,000 bc and cats since about 7,500 bc. They rely on humans. And they “love us”. Here’s my favorite: “my pet is like a member of the family”. You see. I’ll tell you another human tradition that reaches back thousands of years: SLAVERY. And just because we’ve been doing it since the beginning of time, doesn’t make it right. Freedom is freedom. I think that encouraging the breeding of species of animals because they are hardcoded to “not be free” is no excuse. According to the wikipedia article, “Greek philosophers such as Aristotle accepted the theory of natural slavery, that is, that some men are slaves by nature.” Sounds pretty much the same to me.
So, what do you say? Do the world of favor. Let’s make a commitment to free the world of domesticated animals. I understand: if you just free them, they’ll die. So, you might as well free them at the doorstep of an animal research lab. 
FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM!!!
November 8th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Humans never domesticated dogs, dogs domesticated us. The better to eat our delicious trash.