Go hang out with the hippies, PETA

With the 2010 Iditarod underway, everyone's going to be rooting for their favorite musher.  I don't have a favorite musher, but I'll say that I'm rooting for Lance Mackey.  Partly because he's a cancer survivor.  Partly because he's won so much lately.  But mostly because everyone is giving him some low blows because he smokes marijuana.  Smokes marijauna WITH a medical marijuana card, making it perfectly legal.

What bothers me more than the poor sports out on the trail are the people saying that the mushers are torturing the dogs by making them run for such grueling distances.  Animal rights loonies.  While I don't think that animals should go through any suffering, I think animal rights loonies are missing something upstairs.  Lack of red meat in their diet has caused some weird chemical imbalance in some part of their brain, or something.

Dog deaths are something that you probably don't pay much attention to. (Unless it happens to be here at the local dog pound where the dogs are starved to death, and it makes it big-time in the news.)  Who pays more attention to dog deaths on the trail than us and the animal rights loonies?  Trail veterinarians that are there to make sure dogs are healthy enough to run the Last Great Race and to pull a dog out of the race if it's not.  If a dog dies, they try to find out why the dog died to make sure it doesn't happen anymore.  Watching the start of races, you kind of get the hint that these dogs love to run.  They were born, bred and raised to run.  That's what they do- run.  What happens when dogs feel like they've been overworked?  They just stop running.  It's happened before with teams headed for sure victory down the homestretch.  The dogs say they've had enough and just stop to lay down.  No more running. 

Now for loonies saying don't eat animals- humans happen to be somewhere near the top of the natural food chain because we can make a weapon of some sort to go and kill something to eat when we need to, to survive.  Chances are pretty good that the animal is going to experience a fairly quick death with almost no suffering at all.  You hear about the big farms that raise animals to go on your kitchen table where the employees are pretty mean to the animals, but they're probably just redneck hillbillies (if the Simpsons show can make fun of these types of people, so can I) from Iowa that go home and play Russian Roulette for kicks after work with their drinking buddies.  They are about as smart as the animal, so you can't say it's humans being cruel to animals in those situations.  Just animal on animal. 

Since we're talking about food chains, why don't we think about animals that go and kill each other for food.  When you see the sly fox running off with a bunch of baby geese in her mouth on tv, or the wolf biting onto the baby caribou's back- these are the nice versions.  (From the show Planet Earth, a Christmas present- best show I ever watched)  What about the zebras getting chomped on, guts spilled and all while still alive by a crocodile?  Gotta be more pain and suffering there than my caribou or moose getting shot.  What do the loonies have to say about animals eating each other?  

Animal rights loonies need to go hang out with the hippies for a while.  Maybe they'll get high and accidentally eat some real food made from animals after getting the munchies.  This will cause them to snap out of the fantasy world they live in.

By the way- I had some eggs with pork sausage for breakfast, ham and cheese sandwich for lunch, and a tasty hamburger for dinner.  I wouldn't think about eating a meal for dinner that didn't have meat in it.  

I swung by PETA's website and found myself leaving just as fast as I got there.  I then Googled People Eating Tasty Animals and found their site a little easier to stomach.  Looks like the site hasn't been updated in a while.  Be sure to check out the hate mail at the People Eating Tasty Animals website.