You have already heard the news: some stadiums in South Africa will be blessed by means of animal sacrifice. This has agitated the animal rights activists, aroused the goth community, and inspired the cultural relativists debate. The complexity of the human rights/cultural norms issue exceeds the scope of this blog, so I will give lipservice to both sides and hop over to damning statistics of first world meat consumption.
A note: I presume that killing an animal for sacrifice vs. for meat is similar. But, of course, a survey of said animals is logistically impossible – due to linguistic difficulties and the fact they are dead. Dead and being digested in your stomach, you meat consuming monster. Continue reading “WC 2010: Let the pessimism begin, part 2” »