I had no idea how to tittle this thread so I called it as it happened.
I started to read the article about fire fighters saving piglets and I thought how sweet it was and then I read on and found out they later ate them as sausages and it felt creepy. It just feels off somehow. Why rescue them at all?
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/...later.html
It just doesn't feel right somehow. Even if you are not a vegetarian it still doesn't seem right to eat the piglets you rescued.
Does anyone else feel a little uncomfortable about the whole thing?
You beat me to it. I read this on the BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-41012135
The firemen did release an apology later. The apology was that they were perhaps insensitive to have posted about the sausages in such a celebratory way and may have upset people. They did not apologise for eating the sausages, per se. However, at least they have a little conscience.
What I object to far more is the total callousness of a Church of England canon (that's a senior position in the church):
Farm owner Canon Gerald Osbourne added: “An inevitable part of farming is the death of an animal which gives us the food to eat.”
What is a canon doing
owning a farm and making big profits? He must be getting a church salary - but instead he seems to be spending his time with his big farm (and it is big - see the articles about the fire), making profits and defending the killing of animals. If that is his religion, I can do without it.
(08-24-2017, 02:26 PM)Catherine Wrote: [ -> ]Does anyone else feel a little uncomfortable about the whole thing?
Yes I do. Cognitive dissonance? Is that why they could eat them after rescuing them? Phew!
(08-24-2017, 07:52 PM)LPC Wrote: [ -> ]You beat me to it. I read this on the BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-41012135
The firemen did release an apology later. The apology was that they were perhaps insensitive to have posted about the sausages in such a celebratory way and may have upset people. They did not apologise for eating the sausages, per se. However, at least they have a little conscience.
What I object to far more is the total callousness of a Church of England canon (that's a senior position in the church):
Farm owner Canon Gerald Osbourne added: “An inevitable part of farming is the death of an animal which gives us the food to eat.”
What is a canon doing owning a farm and making big profits? He must be getting a church salary - but instead he seems to be spending his time with his big farm (and it is big - see the articles about the fire), making profits and defending the killing of animals. If that is his religion, I can do without it.
Yuck, Mr Osbourne!
Jesus wouldn't have done that. End of.
Quote:Yes I do. Cognitive dissonance? Is that why they could eat them after rescuing them? Phew!
It does seem like a disconnect. If the pigs were just property to be used then why did they bother to rescue them.
They don't usually carry lamps out of burning buildings.
Quote:Farm owner Canon Gerald Osbourne added: “An inevitable part of farming is the death of an animal which gives us the food to eat.”
What is a canon doing owning a farm and making big profits? He must be getting a church salary - but instead he seems to be spending his time with his big farm (and it is big - see the articles about the fire), making profits and defending the killing of animals. If that is his religion, I can do without it.
I didn't catch the Church of England connection. I probably thought Canon was the man's first name. It just didn't register with me.
I agree, what is he doing running a for profit farm. Shouldn't he be concerned about prophets, not profits?
I would expect him to run a farm animal sanctuary.
Being a canon and therefore well educated(I assume) he should be able to see why feeding the rescued piglets to their rescuers is just weird, creepy and somehow not appropriate.
He doesn't have any pastoral sensitivities. I can't imagine what it would be like to have him preach to you on a Sunday.
You sum it up so well Tobi:
Quote:Yuck, Mr Osbourne!
Jesus wouldn't have done that. End of.