When I did some research on Google for stories to read over, I came across this opinion piece on MarketWatch.com, in which the writer somehow made more than the points in his thoughts on the news story. And some of them are less than favorable. In fact, these are a bit hypocritical. And I was so pissed and annoyed by this, that I had to write my own rebuttals to some of these excerpts:
"Sure. I happen to agree with all of the above. But I just wanted to add one little thing.Yes, there is. There is no hypocrisy between them, despite what the op-ed implies. As sad as it was that the farm animals killed were later turned up in someone's lunch, Cecil's hunt, poaching and death was not on legal grounds. The deaths of those animals were. And another thing, people were outraged at the deplorable treatments and deaths of these animals, just like they were with Cecil's. There were just as much disgust and terror people found at that issue as it was with the death.
Spare me. Please. Spare me the overweening, gigantic, appalling, ridiculous, farcical and sanctimonious hypocrisy. Killing animals for no good reason is an outrage? Really?
How’s that steak? Had any good lobster this summer? What about some finger-lickin’-good chicken or some baby back ribs? Have you ever seen the inside of a slaughterhouse?
Meanwhile, a video showing chickens being tortured at a U.S. chicken-processing plant was uploaded several weeks ago. Only a fraction as many have bothered to watch it. But, hey, that’s different, right?"
What the hell does the deaths of the animals we eat (and have to eat to survive!) have to do with everything this shithead did? Not a damn thing. Those farm animals did not suffer the exact same way Cecil forcibly suffered. He did not get put in a cage and eat feed until his death. He was lured by his assailants, shot with a bow and arrow, and then hunted for nearly two fucking days until= the hunters shot him to death and decapitated! Big difference! Cows, pigs, chickens, and other creatures we have to eat do not have many threats in their lives, but lions do. Most people don't eat lions, but some have killed lions (along with other animals in the wild) to stroke their creepy-ass egos.
And spare you from our hypocrisy? We can do that...when you spare us from yours.
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"I like Jimmy Kimmel, but advertisers on his network (DIS, +0.16%) include pretty much every national chain restaurant and food company."Hey, I like Jimmy Kimmel, too! At least, we finally have something to agree with!
Anyway, apparently, you haven't realized that "national chain restaurant and food company" are things we need to help us survive. Emphasis on food.
Also, I found Disney's stock number being thrown in next to Kimmel to be hilarious. I know this is a finance website, but this article said otherwise, with the ticker being a goofy add-on.
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"I come to this neither with clean hands nor any claim to perfection. Until last year I ate meat. For some time I had become increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of living creatures being killed so I could eat them. Then I paid a visit to a farm and found myself petting a disabled newborn lamb. (I’m sorry if this sounds utterly ridiculous. It is utterly ridiculous. But that’s how it happened.) Afterward I asked myself: How in hell could I ever eat lamb chops again?You're a vegetarian. Good for you; that's fine. You don't have to eat meat in your life, and that's cool--no one's gonna force you back or be shocked. Congrats on the little epiphany you had from petting an imperfect lamb. But you don't have to look down on people who do. They eat meat because they like it and enjoy it, just like you (began to) eat vegetables because you not only like it, but live by it (albeit since last year). We shouldn't throw sad, vulgar words at each other because of this opposition. I have no hate, ill-will or disgust toward veg-heads (I love eating vegetables myself), so why are you taking the time to call us out for enjoying meat in general in an opinion piece having nothing to do with Cecil's death, and everything to do with this stupid click-bait on a finance website, of all things?
Like many “vegetarians,” I still make occasional exceptions for fish, although less and less often. I question how self-aware a fish really is. But feel free to yell at me if you wish."
Could you give us a reason as to why lamb, pigs, chickens, and the other animals live on Earth, other than to be killed and later served on our plates? (Cows don't count because they also give us milk.)
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"It’s easy to claim the case of Cecil the lion is “totally different” from the case of all the millions of defenseless animals we kill every year for food. (The phrases “totally different” and “completely different” —as in “Oh, but that’s totally different” — always crop up when hypocrites are trying to defend themselves against the charge of hypocrisy.)"Of course it was easy to claim that! He was on endangered land that was illegal to hunt and kill on! Saying it was totally different is obviously an understatement. And as for "the millions of defenseless animals we kill every year for food"? I don't have to say this again.
And another thing: you should realize that these animals have another thing to worry about--getting killed by other animals. Yes, that's really fucking terrible, but that's their circle of life called the food chain. The weakest animals will be devoured by bigger animals, and this also keeps them alive as well.
That has happened for hundreds of thousands of years.
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"Yes, lions are at risk of extinction, while cows, pigs and sheep aren’t. But the death of a single lion is hardly material in this regard. There are more than 20,000 species worldwide at risk of extinction, and where is the outrage about them?"You're right, one lion's death shouldn't be held in this caliber of awareness, but it did because of how senseless, vile and mindbogglingly horrifying the whole thing was. And another thing, there has been outrage in those species as well. Have you read the social media posts and online articles by PETA and other animal rights firms? Have you watched Nature? If not, go to PETA's Twitter page, and try going further and further down through the page until you've reached the end. They have done this since the month and year the Twitter account was created, and have been doing this by mouth and protest since 1980. And I won't deny that other animals have been killed to be eaten. In fact, I agree with you on that; that is some creepy disgusting shit.
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"My favorite objection in this instance is that Cecil was a really popular, well-known lion on his game preserve in Zimbabwe. Palmer actually apologized for killing an animal that was a “known, local favorite.”--Uhh...YOU TELL ME "WHAT IF HE WAS UNPOPULAR"!! If Cecil was unpopular, Palmer still would've gotten as much hatred, just like he was popular. Palmer took a photo with the dead animal, and that would've gotten as much attention as the horrible Planned Parenthood story, if not for a few days. Granted, this would've gotten less play on social media taking away that factor; but it's still social media, anything is possible.
Um, what? Would it be OK if he was unpopular, or unknown? Do all the cows and lambs being sent to the slaughterhouse deserve their fate?"
And speaking of the Planned Parenthood story, why are you comparing aborted fetuses to a lion that didn't . I really don't want to say much
"If all this leads to some good, so much the better. But if it is just a short-lived and pointless festival of sanctimony, we might as well just skip it."
I do agree with this here, in that this story absolutely will boil over in a few weeks, or possibly, maybe even a few days. As sad as I am for the lion's death, I wouldn't be surprised to see myself move on to something else or even get annoyed by more of this story.
"If Palmer is smart, he’ll stay in hiding and say absolutely nothing for the next month or two. Nothing he says or does will help him until this blows over. I hope he never hunts another animal again. But, then, I hope everyone else will stop pointlessly killing animals, as well. Fat chance, alas."Oh he's very smart to hide, because you can imagine what he'll be getting if he does show his ass soon after. I also hope he'll never hunt animals again. But try telling (or making) us to stop eating what we love to eat--you'll be lucky to get some of us to say "No".
Oh and by the way; were you aware of the plants that lived before people turned them into your favorite salad? I'm sure you would have, but hey, that's different; they don't have four legs, eyes, a mouth and a reason for living a long life so that's fine, right? Right?
Anyway this post is embarrassingly hypocritical and terribly written from my perspective. There was so much from this that made me roll my eyes, and shake my head. This guy believes that being a vegetarian is what will save the world and animals from some type of hell they are enduring, we are evil people for eating meat, that Cecil the Lion is not even worthy to reach the heights of more important matters of news, and that Jimmy Kimmel crying won't get us to contribute to wildlife conservation, among other things.
But this is just a way for him to write his own feelings about his life of being a vegetarian, which, mind you, began last year. This is just some bullshit to live by, and from reading the comments below the piece, a lot of people were also not impressed and rightly called him out for it. They make sense and are smartly written, and also speak the same metaphorical tongue as I do. And I really enjoyed that.
On the other hand, there is one person taking his side (aka kissing his ass), but his defense just as nonsensical as (if not worse than) the guy's views. There are few more, but he is so prominent on the section, that you can tell who he is by the third or fourth comment. Try to avoid him,
I do agree with a few small points, which actually do make sense, and give some interesting questions that could be answered only explicitly long and brutally honest.
So yeah...I clearly hate this article. But you might have an opinion on that. If you want to take a look, here's the link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/spare-me-the-hypocrisy-on-cecil-the-lion-2015-07-29
But please don't go after him. I don't condone brutally blasting the guy (or anyone else) personally, because that is worse than any foolish negative opinion anyone would post on the Internet, and that is just damn cruel. You can leave a comment about the opinion piece, but not on himself.
"Enjoy your hamburger." Oh yeah? Well, you enjoy your Garden salad and occasional salmon.
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