Lecturer at Eastern Michigan U. Compares Eating Meat to the Holocaust
Leaving aside the completely inappropriate comparison, there is consensus within the scientific community that meat consumption contributed greatly to the success of early man. Google it.
College Fix Editor, Nathan Harden reports.
Eating Meat ‘Worse than the Holocaust,’ Lecturer Tells Students
In a profanity-laced tirade at Eastern Michigan University, self-described animal rights activist Gary Yourofsky told students that eating meat is worse than the Holocaust.
In addition, Yourofsky compared eating meat to cheese or eggs, or drinking milk to bestiality, according to a report by Michigan Capital Confidential.
“You engage in carnivorous bestiality on a daily basis,” Yourofsky told the students. “Sometimes multiple times a day. You eat things that come out of a hen’s ass and shove things into a turkey’s ass. … You eat breast, legs and thighs and then you pay somebody else to sexually molest a cow and squeeze their nipples for you so you can steal their milk.
“There is a Holocaust taking place right now,” Yourofsky also told the class. “It is the world’s largest and longest running Holocaust.”
Yourofsky’s talk prompted students to complain to administrators at EMU about his remarks. In addition to his remarks about meat-eating, Yourofsky made other provocative statements.
“The American flag, for example, which is nothing but a piece of fabric; the Bible, which is nothing but a book comprised of ink and paper, stir up more emotions than the murder of animals,” he reportedly told students.
Yourofsky has given 2,300 lectures across the United States at 178 schools, according to the report. But Yourofsky is not alone in voicing extreme animal rights views on campus. As The College Fix reported earlier today, students at the University of California, Santa Barbara recently heard a lecture by a woman named Patricia MacCormack, who told students that we ought to think of animals as equal to humans. She described her talk as “an absolute critique and repudiation of speciesist discourse.”
Did you catch that? Apparently, there’s a word for people who don’t believe animals are equal to humans: “speciesist” — you know, like “racist” or “sexist”? You are a “speciesist” if you believe human life is more valuable than animal life.
Eating Meat ‘Worse than the Holocaust,’ Lecturer Tells Students (The College Fix)
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For a well-reasoned analysis of the “animals are equal to humans” argument, please listen to this lecture from Natural Resources 407 at Cornell:
http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/7681/1/Dr._Richard_Baer_-_NR_407_1994-03-31.mp3
The rest of the lectures for this splendid course are here:
https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/ENVIROBAER/Religion%2C+Ethics%2C+and+the+Environment