PETA is an organization whose purported purpose it is to encourage kindness toward animals. The name is hard to argue against. Why would anyone be for the unethical treatment of animals? It seems silly to want to treat animals unethically. However, the desire of the folks at PETA is not borne by a simple affinity toward the animal kingdom, rather it is carried by a hatred for fellow humans and an inordinate view of animals.
The people at PETA think that there is no order but that which is ‘natural’. Ingrid Newkirk says we are all animals. Newkirk and her allies at PETA don’t understand the problem of their thinking. While we all exhibit animal-like qualities, we are not all animals. A calculator is not a word processor, just because they both have circuit boards. Her thinking is averse to God and His order. While it is a ‘natural’ order, it was divinely created and driven. As Romans 1 says, it bears witness against us, and many are punished for their abuse of that knowledge.
Her ideas are bound up in ideas that animals are cute, little, cuddly, fuzzy bundles of fur, not deserving of the wholesale slaughter that we meet out upon them with regularity in slaughterhouses across our cruel country. Consider if people are all animals as she says, there are no ethics. Whatever animals (which humans would be in this worldview) do is right, because they cannot help but abide by their impulses. That is essentially animalian. If a lion eats a poor, defenseless gazelle, no one would argue. If we are about the ethical treatment of animals, we should be lobbying against carnivorous animals, and bringing them into subjection to our laws and ethical construct. If, however, they can eat meat, why should other ‘animals’ be kept from it?
If her worldview were properly applied, either we are allowed to eat meat, because we are animals, and whatever we do is right (ethical), or we are not animals, and we admit that our position is distinct from animals, again allowing for the ‘ethical’ eating of meat.
It is noteworthy that there are not many opponents of the unethical treatment of plants. Does no one care about all of that defenseless corn in Western Kansas? What did an apple ever do to any of us? There are at least two possible reasons for this: even Newkirk realizes the absurdity of her foolishness taken to its logical end, and/or all those internally consistent atheists, who are so subversive and ardently opposed to admitting our God-ordered existence (whereby we may lawfully eat most anything) died while taking a stand against plant violence, since there is not much left to eat in that paradigm.
So then, eat meat, without scruples. Whatsoever you do, whether you eat meat or not, give thanks to God for it.
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