Dear Editor,
To the individual that signed her name as a member of the
”
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
”
(PETA), you did not persuade me to go vegetarian.
Dear Editor,
To the individual that signed her name as a member of the “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals” (PETA), you did not persuade me to go vegetarian. Dispatch readers that missed the Friday’s opinion page article entitled, “A thumb in the chili should be a wake-up call to ‘go veggie'”, might want to go back and read it, it’s quite humorous.
Using the recent discovery of a human finger found in a bowl of Wendy’s chili, was her reason why non-vegetarians should change their food eating habits and go vegetarian.
I agree that biting down on a severed finger is certainly vile, but this finger or any other body part could have just as easily showed up in a bowl of vegetarian chili, soup or a freshly prepared vegetarian meal. And her list of unappetizing odds and ends that end up in our meat supply could just as well end up in our canned or processed fruit and vegetable supply. Have you ever watched how processor tomatoes are harvested in the Salinas or Central Valley?
The tomatoes are dumped into large trailers along with live insects, snake parts, and miscellaneous rodent parts that got tangled in the vines. All is hauled off to a processing plant. A sample of the load is taken and if it passes USDA specs (inspection) everything is dumped onto a conveyor belt, cooked and sealed in 50-gallon drums.
With more than 1,700 reported dismembered accidents reported in the US every year and who knows how many unreported, I’m surprised more severed fingers haven’t been found in the food supply.
Since the human body is physically and structurally design to equally digest vegetables and meat products, vegetarians and non-vegetarians can live in harmony.
My concern is not with the severed finger, but where is the body to which the severed finger belongs? This might be a case for CSI.
Alan L. Johnson, Gilroy
