MANY elders [I’m 70] like to complain about modern society and the ethics of the young, but I see a lot of hope in the way young people are changing cultural ‘normality’.
For example, last week we saw growing calls for a ban on dog-meat in South Korea.
The Associated Press report said “eating dog meat has fallen out of favour with most younger people”.
Dog farmers are furious, saying that the push to end dog meat production threatens their livelihoods and happiness.
How does this relate to Australia? Australians eat, on average, more meat than any other people.
Yet they love, or at least don’t eat, dogs. But other animals like cows, pigs, sheep, chickens and fish want to live just as much, and can experience the same pleasure and pain, as a dog.
Farming corporations complain about their livelihood every time PETA and other animal activists [mostly young ones] ask people to consider the pain eating animals causes.
The species are different, the moral question the same. If you don’t eat dogs, please listen to the young, and don’t eat other animals.
You will feel healthier, the environment will benefit enormously, and you can save up to 200 animals every year from a short, excruciating life and an agonising death.
Desmond Bellamy, PETA Australia
