Correct.
I suppose it is an exaggeration that the amount of animal fat used in these notes is less than 1/100^100 of the total by weight. The article does not give a precise figure.
But I still don’t doubt that every fiver that’s been in circulation for a few months has more meat molecules on its surface (and therefore likely to be transferred to the holder) than are embedded in the paper these new notes are made from.
Do you know the reason for that?
They are thought to “inflame” the passions.
Every version of Buddhism is a little different, including dietary laws.
I had to evacuate my office once for an animal rights bomb scare when I was in England, but it wasn’t Peta, it was a local group, and I’m pretty sure they were not anti-carnivore, just anti-experimentation-and-fur. It was hard to be anti-carnivore in rural Yorkshire in the 80s.
The vegans of my acquaintance stress the importance of consent. Theoretically, they’d eat an animal that had died of natural causes, if they really had to and it weren’t dangerous to eat diseased/spoiled meat. One felts shedded cat fur into funny little characters, and that’s including fur groomed off the cats with a Furminator, not just what they leave on the carpet themselves. Of course, she feeds them meat from animals that didn’t consent to being slaughtered, so you’re right that it’s somewhat arbitrary, but maybe it would be a worse crime by her lights to let her adopted obligate carnivore charges die of malnutrition.
I am way over “fun” gotcha rules-lawyering with vegans. I respect their ethics and they don’t hassle me for not sharing them perfectly.
Maybe someone like the Animal Liberation Front? They seem to be more into employing “propaganda of the deed” than Peta would be… Peta is just sanctimonious and irritating, I think.
It could have been ALF, though I think it was probably just some unaffiliated local group. Some people in England have strange hobbies
I accidentally ended up looking at a ALF stall at an anarchist bookfair because I didn’t realise who it was. I think I got away without them realising that I disapproved of their tactics.
Relatedly, have you seen this documentary, about the ELF attacks in the pacific NW back in the 90s and the legal fall out?
http://www.ifatreefallsfilm.com/
A friend of mine’s sister in law is in it, actually.
Have you heard of the SHAC granny-napping?
Ghastly people.
From the article:
Left school aged 16 and became a petty criminal before qualifying as a psychiatric nurse.
Ummm…OK then.
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