Dead Animals In My Chewing Gum — Gross!
Eating dead animals is not my thing. Neither is cleaning my face with them, making homeopathics with them, clothing myself with them, or finding them in my piano, guitar or other musical instruments and sundry items in the form of glue.
The time for exploiting animals and saying that we cannot survive without somehow utilizing their body parts is long gone. We like the taste of animals. We like the feel of their fur and the smell and texture of their tanned hides. We like to make glue out of them.
And violin strings.
No wonder people say violins sound like a dead cat if they aren’t played correctly. They are a dead cat. Named Fluffy. Or Romeo. Or Cinnabun.
Boo hoo.
A radio announcer was chortling a while back. He was laughing because a five-year old child had just been told that Chicken McNuggets were actually made out of real chickens. He had thought that it was just a fun name. “Oh my God!” the child had exclaimed. Not in his wildest dreams had this little innocent kid considered that his otherwise rational parents would consider killing a sentient, albeit not brilliant creature, just so he could have something tasty to eat.
The five year old child found nothing to laugh about in the death of another life form. The “adult” did. And at the child’s utter horror as his little world fell apart. The child was horrified. The child did not trust his parents any more. He said so.
The crazy kid.
Not.
Most children, if the truth be known, are shocked to hear that we kill and eat animals. Animals that they have just finished petting in the petting zoo. Animals that they have just played “farm” with in their toy room, with their plastic counterparts.
Children too young to know the word “psycho”, and too afraid to apply it to their parents and their god(s), even if they did. So we all learn to just go along for the ride. And it isn’t difficult, because crispy animals are pretty tasty to most people’s palate. And most of us never see animals killed.
I have and it is not a pretty sight.
People who do it for a living are whack jobs. There is no other truth.
Eating sentient animals. Whoever put the idea to munch on “Smart Food” into our collective heads is an even bigger whack job. I would not call that being “God”. More like the antithesis of God.
Ahem.
Not unless your idea of God is a being that condones and gets his or her jollies off systemic murder. Just because you put it in a sandwich and call it lunch instead of Bessy, doesn’t make it any less murder. And you did not need to kill it and eat it to survive, so don’t give me that crap.
And for those of you spiritual types who believe that animals are offering themselves up to you for consumption if they cross your path, or catch your eye in the field, forest or barnyard, here’s a tip; if they are screaming in fright and/or running wild-eyed in the opposite direction, or frozen in obvious terror, they do not want to be killed.
They do not want to be eaten.
Just like you!
NO killy.
NO eaty.
No exceptions.
And where is God in all of this? What God in his or her right mind, or left mind for that matter, would allow the constant creation of animals that kill and eat other animals, for any sane reason?
You’ve seen how complex the human body is. And that of every creature on the planet. No accidents here. But a lot of brutality. In the DNA. It seems that everything was made by a bunch of brilliant demon god-children. Boy or tomboy demon god-children. That like to play with trucks and monsters that kill. The earth is their sand-box.
At least most of us know when we are eating meat or fish. I try not to eat things that were once able to see, here, touch, smell, think and feel. But some foods are sneaky. Even bread has mono- and dyglycerides. As a child, and even as a young adult, I never knew that these came from animals. I never knew that marshmallows were made with animals. Or crackers, or chewing gum, of all things. None of them require animal products. It is just more fun and supposedly more economical to be sinister.
And psycho.
I would like to see only vegetable-based glycerin in any bubblegum. “Blow it out your ass” should not be the literal truth. I would love it if all marshmallows left out animal gelatin. I would love it if jell-o was just vegetable gelatin also. I don’t want rennet in my Mars Bars.
I want guilt-free food. I’m supposed to feel guilty about calories, but not give a rat’s ass about the feelings, real feelings, of animals that we kill by the millions every day?
That is the height of insanity.
Just because something, or someone, keeps killing us off by building in personal expiry dates and atrophy and old age, doesn’t mean we should go around inflicting death on other creatures.
Whoever made them taste good was nuts.
Probably a baby scientist god.
Who killed its parents.
And ate them.
I don’t want to follow such a creator. Small “c”. I’m better than that. I hope that you will find it in yourselves to be better than than too.
And if you just like to hunt, shoot your friends with paintballs. They have more brain cells and should present more of a challenge than a wild turkey, or a bear in your rifle sight who is two hills over and doesn’t even know that you are there.
Wooo. Big man.
Grow up.
And pass the chips, please. Fried in sunflower oil.
And toss me an aspartame-free Coke, si tu plais.
Okay, and a carrot. I need something to stir the vanilla almond- milk based ice cream in my drink with anyway!
Trident and Dentyne keep experimenting with vegetable-based glycerin in one or two of their chewing gum offerings. That’s nice. But the whole experiment seems purposely set up for failure, as the flavours they choose for this tokenism are garbage.Then they can drop the product, saying that sales are low.
There are many ethical and religiously motivated people out there who would like to chew on a piece of gum without chewing on a cow.
Market it properly, and I will bet you that sales of this vegetable-based gum would skyrocket. Most people with consciences have stopped reading the ingredients, the recent vegan ingredient change having never been announced, and simply stopped chewing brand-name gum.
B-Fresh Gum is completely vegan chewing gum. Check out www.veganessentials.com for this and other fun vegan products.
And all of the regular brand-name gums are full of aspartame these days.
Unholy aspartame.
Next blog.
Pat.
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