Emotive Twaddle

Deafened by the Cheering

We have often argued on this website that human society is invariably and inevitably bloody.  Bloodshed is as intrinsic a part of existence in this fallen world as mortality.  The issue is not whether a culture sheds blood, but which blood is shed, for what reasons, and on what grounds. 

The more a culture turns from God, the more unrighteousness twaddle bloodshed will come into prominence.  In our particular culture in the West we are increasingly offended at the sight of blood and the taking of life.  We wish that things were not that way.  So our killing has to be done away from sight and sound.  It is sanitized.  Meat comes from supermarkets, not from animals, don't you know.  When it becomes apparent that animals have had to be killed to provide food, then we are sickened and outraged. 

Here is an exemplar of our saccharin idiocy.
Residential houses now sit on the boundaries of many farms.  Home kill is practised on those farms, as owners slaughter their beasts and lay up some food for winter.  Residents in the surrounding houses are outraged.  This from the NZ Herald: 

The slaughtering of animals in full view of children has prompted horrified locals in a Bay of Plenty town to call for tougher laws over where people can kill their cattle.  "Home killing" has become a point of contention in Waihi, where dwellings border lifestyle blocks on which slaughtering is legal.  Residents Claudette Hogwood and Vivienne Walker say they have witnessed cattle being killed and butchered in fields in plain sight of schoolchildren and surrounding homes.

One would have thought that these effete tut-tutters would have relished the chance of teaching local children  about the food chain upon which we all depend, and which has been graciously provided for us by the Living God.  But no.  The whole thing is just awful.  An outrage. 

Mrs Hogwood said she was horrified to see five cows slaughtered one after another in a paddock opposite her house.  "I was walking down the road and thought, 'Oh someone is calving their cow', then I saw what was really happening. It was an outrage."

City folk!  Then comes the moralising--this time from animal rights campaigner Hans Kriek:

Hans Kriek, director of the animal advocacy group Safe, said the question should not be about where cattle can be slaughtered, but why.  "If people don't like having to witness it, then maybe they shouldn't be eating the products. As Paul McCartney once said, if slaughterhouses had glass walls we'd all be vegetarians."

McCartney, poor man, is just a dupe.  So is Mr Kriek.  If slaughterhouses had glass walls, and people were starving, we'd all be deafened by the cheering.