They have a new one with what I thought was another SM song, but it's actually "My Skin", by Natalie Merchant (it's on i-tunes, I just bought it this morning), and it's even more agonizingly sad than "Answer" (SM), because the words are "I've been treated so long/ I've been treated so long/ As if I'm becoming untouchable", and I dare anyone not to be even the tiniest bit moved by the dog with all-over mange as those words are sung. It reduces me to absolute floods, but I'm easy to make tearful, thanks to the Vicodin. I'm easy to get with animal stuff anyway, but those ads are killer.
Anyway, It was just in my mind, I've got nothing really to say about the ASPCA, except that I like what they do a lot better than the Group That Begins With A P That Shall Not Be Named, because they and the rescue groups that work with them actually try to rehabilitate the animals that come in from abusive situations. And I'm not on board with the idea of treating animals as absolute equals to humans until we allow them to vote, work for a salary, and pay taxes. And the ASPCA isn't violent. I don't think the way to get people to treat animals better is to threaten them, insult them, offend them, and abuse them.
I'm just sayin'.
No group is perfect; there are always, always - no exceptions - issues with organizations run by people, because people are not perfect. But the ASPCA tries, and for that, they get my support. Yes, you can always make the argument that there are people in horrible situations, and why worry about animals when people are suffering, but my view is that it's all interconnected - animal abuse and people abuse go hand in hand, and all abuse is unforgiveable. I'm not a vegetarian (though I'm not really a big meat eater), because I accept that I am an omnivore, and as a species, we eat other species (like other carnivores and omnivores - and I'm not really averse to eating insects, as long as they're cooked), but I don't think farm animals should suffer, and I'm against feed lots, battery farming, and people who abuse farm animals, because it's unnecessary and it makes the meat taste like crap.
I went off on a tangent there; sorry.
I like animals - they seem to like me most of the time. I don't think it's appropriate to ignore animal cruelty, just like I don't think it's appropriate to ignore human cruelty - though both are ignored and glossed over every day. I think the world changes for the better a little bit at a time, and the small stuff is the foundation for the bigger stuff.
Um, yeah. All that from a song I like, and a commercial that makes me weepy.
Blame it on the snow day.
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