Food fascists lack conviction
Yes, I know I said I wasn’t going to blog again before 2008 but I just couldn’t resist after reading Cllr. Icke’s latest rantings in today’s letters page of The Press.
In it he asks us to spare a thought for the poor turkeys and consider a vegetarian alternative. My answer to that comes in two parts.
1) The turkeys will already be slaughtered and ready for roasting so there’s nothing to think about anyway. Their suffering is over, while us unfortunates still on this mortal coil have to continue to suffer the insane rantings of people like Icke!
2) I love turkey, I love goose, and I love roast potatoes cooked in goose fat. I love bacon butties for breakfast on Christmas morning and I love turkey sandwiches for the next few days afterwards.
I love the freedom I have to choose what I eat and when I want to eat it.
I hate being told how to think and act by anyone, especially jumped up councillors who hardly got any votes anyway, and are obsessed with being media whores, while openly supporting animal rights extremist groups who can’t even organise a protest outside a tiny restaurant in York.
I don’t know of one turkey who is worried about getting stuffed this yuletide. Though I can think of one particular turkey in the Labour party who really should get stuffed!
Going back to Cllr. Icke’s support of animal rights fanatics, The Press recently gave a lot of publicity to the terrorists who announced they were planning a mass gathering outside the Blue Bicycle restaurant to protest about their (quite legal) refusal to remove foie-gras from the menu. However, I am disappointed that no follow-up story has been published to describe what a failure this so called protest actually was.
I pass the Blue Bicycle at least three times a day and the biggest gathering of the great unwashed I saw was three, one of whom made an abusive remark to me when I declined their offer of a leaflet and called her a food fascist. The only constant protestor seemed to be one girl, who at least stood by her convictions, however misguided they may be. Or maybe she was homeless and hoping for some leftovers?
So in reality it transpires that for all Cllr. Blanchard and YAFA’s blustering and publicity seeking, it is clear that the people of York have little or no interest in animal rights fanaticism, nor are they interested in harassing restaurants that are legally going about their business. It is a shame that the scurrilous YAFA, who unsuccessfully tried to dig up dirt on the Blue Bicycle by twisting the facts about a kitchen inspection and presenting it in a factually incorrect manner, cannot turn their attentions to more serious cases of animal abuse, such as the cruel and inhumane way that halal meat is still legally produced in Britain.
Maybe they are worried they will be called racist? I mean, it’s acceptable to dig up the graves of old people in the name of animal rights, but you can’t go upsetting the muslims can you?
I hope every single one of you enjoys your traditional turkey dinner next Tuesday.
To those too stupid to enjoy Christmas I hope you don’t choke on your nut cutlets.
See you soon…