Enough preaching on murder of animals

After what seemed like a reasonably long rest, Eric seems to be active again in letters columns and is once again expressing his anti-meat, smoking, alcohol, Israel and the United States message with a vengeance. The last two are fair game, so let’s deal with the first three.

His original thrust was to tell us that we are not healthy, but as that didn’t seem to have much impact, he is now pushing the murder aspect of meat eating.

A personal friend of mine went to a bench on Beach road, right near Walking Street to see Eric as he was told that he parks himself there most days. He told me that he located Eric and noted that Eric had the physical presence of an emaciated John Carradine (a 1940s movie star and father of the Carradine brothers, who was quite skinny). That’s okay if that is the way that Eric wants to look, but I don’t.

I agree with Eric that Americans eat way too much meat in the form of fast food fat burgers. One only need watch the news of any gathering in American and one begins to feel as though he would like to start roping and branding most of the people in the crowd, so there is credence to Eric’s claims. But there is a middle road.

I can’t imagine not having an occasional steak or burger, chicken, fish or a fillet of parts of other animals and then having a glass of wine and a cigarette. Neither can I bear the thought of looking like an Auschwitz survivor or one of the cattle that we eat like most of the American public. It’s just not me Eric. I don’t give a damn if I survive that much longer or not, I want to enjoy myself while I am here and beans sprouts just don’t do it for me.

The biggest problem in the world today is not greed. That’s second. Number one is all of the people that would tell us what is good for us and what we should be doing. We are inundated with do gooders forcing “tough love” on us and it is depressing and annoying.

I like to read the “Letters” section of the newspaper Eric, but I don’t want to be preached at. If you are happy with your lifestyle, then more power to you. I am happy with mine.

As for all of the animals that you mention, we don’t know how they feel. They can’t communicate with us, or you for that matter. All they do is lay around in the mud, chew their cud or peck at the ground for worms, so if you want to do something constructive to save us, see if you can’t teach them to communicate. Maybe we would be more compassionate if we heard their horror stories. It’s called “the luck of the draw” Eric. And whether it is fair or not, that is the way it is.

John Arnone

Yasothon