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Animal Rightists Compare Terrorist Victims' Suffering to Chickens |
Karen Davis, president of United Poultry Concerns, sent a letter to Vegan Voice claiming that it is “speciesist” – favoring one species over another - to consider the terror attacks of September 11 to be a “greater tragedy that what millions of chickens endured that day.”
The following is the last paragraph from this offensive letter:
"In conclusion, I think it is speciesist to think that the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center was a greater tragedy that what millions of chickens endured that day and what they endure every day because they cannot defend themselves against the concerted human appetites arrayed against them. Perhaps the word ‘tragedy’ should not be used anyway in this context unless in the more precise sense of a fundamentally terrible thing happening to a human being who consciously or subconsciously brought the terrible thing upon him or herself, lived through it, and gained insight and wisdom as a result. In this classical sense of tragic drama, it remains to be seen whether America is a “tragic hero” or even a “tragic” victim. If, though, the question is whether the World Trade Center attack was worse for its thousands of human victims that the sum total misery and terror was for millions of chicken victims that day, I see only one non-speciesist answer to the question.”
The message sent by this animal rights radical ranks with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals President Ingrid Newkirk’s statement that compared the suffering and loss of six million Jewish people during the Holocaust to chickens that are slaughtered for food. Both are incredibly disturbing, offensive and for lack of a better word, inhumane.