of course theres a right to be cruel to animals, don't be naive
you can shoot them for sport, your whole royal family does it, blasting away to your hearts content. keep big animals in little cages and some in tiny cages all their lives, feeding them whatever slop is cheapest. you can put collars around their neck and drag them around the neighbourhood on a rope and think you're their friend instead of their slave owner. take pack animals and force them to be alone all day in some apartment or backyard while they bark in desperation and lonliness. put them in public cages for people to gawk at. send them off to industrial killing places at six months of age for an animal that normally lives to be 20, to be slaughtered and it's muscles wrapped in plastic for us to eat. we can destroy every last bit of natural habitat for our farms and roads and houses. as far as I could tell the only areas of semi-wilderness left like the new forest were only there because they were the nobles private hunting grounds. lay poison baits for them
And this is all fine and legal. you can even get subsidies to do it.
But kill a couple of dozen of one the few animals that's doing well in Britain a year in pretty much the same way foxes kill other animals and they'll be millions taking to the streets protesting at this intolerable cruelty and the thought of other people having fun. because, as I said, people have fucked priorities
(
cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 30 Jan 2023, 20:40,
Reply)
This is a long way from Caravaggio
(
garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 31 Jan 2023, 8:45,
Reply)
I'm going to tie it all together, just be patient
Reubens' "Wolf and Fox Hunt" is hung at the Met in their European Section along with Caravaggio's Denial of St Peter. Omar Sharif played St Peter in a 2005 telly movie. Omar Sharif was in Funny girl with barbara streisand who was in Nuts with Richard Dreyfus, who was in the Milagro Beanfield War with Daniel Stern, who was in Diner with Kevin Bacon
(
cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 31 Jan 2023, 9:57,
Reply)