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Monday, August 23, 2004In order to remain successfully omnivorous, I should stop peering at seafood tanks out of curiousity. Fish tanks show fish in overcrowded tanks, jostling past each other in an attempt to remain alive, stagnating near the bottom of the tank, about as lifeless as one can get before actual death. Prawn tanks show ten or fifteen medium sized prawns hopping about the tank, avoiding prodding fat fingers of various precocious children, while moving around, sometimes straying too close to an ex companion's decapitated head. Eel tanks are bad too, the water level is low, the eels are convulated around the tank, being so compact that most of their heads are pointing in the same upward direction, unable to be differentiated if they are dead or alive, then suddenly something starts to move, and a slow rise of bodies can be seen, as the eel tries to find its own space somewhere. The impassive, lifeless face fixates you, causing you to wonder why on earth don't they get to even enjoy their last few moments before death. Crabs are probably the worst off, their claws and feet are tightly bound together, unable to move anywhere at all, their place of captivity not having even enough water to ensure that they are breathing. Their last bid of life captured only in the bubbles that foam at their mouths, showing their lack of oxygen as they are slowly aphyxiated. *shudder* I thought science proved that if animals die a horrible death, they will release toxins in their bodies? Meaning if they aren't happy when they die, we'll be poisoned? Reminds me of dignity in death, something we discussed in literature last week, that no matter how a person has lived his/her life, they deserve to die with dignity, be it criminals, patients etc. But then again, can animals and people be compared on the same level? Watching a news programme just now, if the gorilla had not ventured to protect the boy, but showed signs of agression, he would most certainly have been sacrificed to protect the boy, but is it fair? Put an animal lover in that situation and he would have most likely hesitated, much like anyone else around, because no one should be given the right to judge a person's life. That's denying the person's right to live, and although I'm not some animal activist, but I think it stands for something. But despite all the hoity-toity mentioned above, I am still (currently) a very contented omnivore and I doubt it will change any time soon... |