Animals Suffer a Perpetual 'Holocaust'

Los Angeles Times ^ | 04-21-2003 | Stephen R. Dujack

[boris]

Animals Suffer a Perpetual 'Holocaust'

By Stephen R. Dujack

Stephen R. Dujack is the editor of an environmental magazine in Washington and a writer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer fled Nazi Europe in 1935 and came to this country. He married my grandmother, who had escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1940. He went on to become a lauded author and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1978. His family -- those who stayed behind -- were killed in the concentration camps.

My grandfather was also a principled vegetarian. He was one of the first to equate the wholesale slaughter of humans to what we perpetrate against animals every day in slaughterhouses. He realized that the systems of oppression and murder that had been used in the Holocaust were the systems being used to confine, oppress and slaughter animals. He attributed to a character in one of his books something he believed in himself: "In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis. For [them], it is an eternal Treblinka."

[BrooklynGOP]

Singer is an idiot.

[goldstategop]

Another PETA wacko on a rampage against eating meat. And I'm outraged by the comparison with the Holocaust. How dare he, how dare!

[Jeff Head]

Yea, we eat them.

[dead]

An animal is a plant with a face.

[KeyWest]

Historical anthropologists have determined that mankind's health went downhill when they shifted from hunting to agriculture. The myth of superior health from veggies is just that. Atkins is right.

[DonQ]

I wouldn't criticize I.B. Singer for putting words into a fictional character's mouth. After all this was the author of Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and so many other bits of whimsy.

But I think it's unfair of his grandson to try to exploit his little witticism to make a serious argument that essentially belittles the Holocaust and cleans up the Nazis to mere carnivores.

It is obvious to most people, of any religious persuasion, that the primary reason many domesticated animals - mostly cattle and sheep and poultry and (for non-Jews) swine - is to use as food and maybe for leather. If we didn't intend to use them this way, we wouldn't be feeding them and worrying about their health, and there'd be a lot fewer of them. Probably, if reduced to a wild state, most American breeds of chicken and turkey would be extinct by now.

[goldstategop]

Someone should remind the author of this vegan brief that Der Fuhrer was a committed vegetarian.

[ZULU]

"My grandfather was also a principled vegetarian"

Gotta watch those vegans!! Ever carrots and beets have rights!!

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Singer is an idiot

I am assuming your are talking about Peter singer of princeton fame (the head of the ethics dept?) I am not sure because I wont register with this socialist rag so I cannot read the whole article. If so he is more than an idiot I rank him in the category of people like ted bundy and charles manson he believes you should be able to kill a live baby up to a month after birth if you feel your child will have a poor quality of life. he also believes that humans can have consensual sex with animals.

No my friend he is more than an idiot he is very dangerous for he gets a fresh classroom of indoctrinees every semester.

[BrooklynGOP]

I agree 100%. I was just being diplomatic, I guess.

[PatrickHenry]

Viewing the entire article requires registration at the L.A. Times, which I don't want to do. Instead ...

[Blue Collar Christian]

If Singer, or any other Jew or Christian, wants to equate the slaughter of animals with evil, they should avoid the Scripture that God inspired for the atonement of sins.

When one sees God as number one, it's hard to grasp the logic of those who don't.

I surely wish that anti-Americans, vegetarians, vegans, pro-abortionists, race-card-playing opportunist reverends, and the lot of "cause" directed feel good liberals would stop calling themselves Jews and Christians, pick up the Scriptures that are the word of God they base their religions on, and READ them.

[Alouette]

Translation: "Not to worry, he's a vegetarian."

[Blue Collar Christian]

Can you put a Star of David arm patch on that rooster?

[TexasRepublic]

Yawn...shaddup and pass the BBQ sauce....

[warchild9]

As a vegetarian, I'm always amused by how eating dead animals is equated with manliness and conservatism. However, we should note that Singer also proposes we have the right to kill the elderly and any child under three who is inconvenient. This man appalls me.

[holdmuhbeer]

where is the barf alert?

[Shermy]

I hear Alito likes veal parmigiana.

Maybe that's why Dujack hates him.