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The Killing Fields
 Being a born again carnivore, I'm very happy I'm not living in Europe at the moment. I mean, what the hell is going on with their animals over there? Mad cow disease has been running rampant for a couple of years and now there's some big outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Livestock farmers in Britain are currently destroying millions of cows, pigs and sheep, including healthy ones, to stop the disease from spreading.
Foot and mouth disease symptoms in animals include fever and blister-like lesions followed by erosions on the tongue and lips, in the mouth, on the teats, and between the hooves. Humans can't get the disease but can spread it by wearing contaminated clothes or footwear that passes the virus to animals. Canada has imposed a ban on all meat and dairy products originating in Europe and our newspapers have been filled with pictures of fields of burning cattle. Anyone arriving here from Europe has to walk over disinfected carpets at the airport. If only I were still a vegetarian; I would have had a field day with this topic. "You see," I could have said. "This probably wouldn't be happening if humans weren't raising animals for food. It's obviously NOT normal to eat meat." The interesting thing is, you'd think PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) would be saying the same thing. I just went to their website and the European animal slaughters are not even mentioned. They do highlight Pamela Anderson's TV commercial against leather though. I don't think there'll be much leather coming out of Britain in the next year or two (unless it's slightly crisp) so I guess they'll be happy about that. They also talk about Cruel Killing On CBS's Survivor and how upset they are over the death of one pig during an episode of the top-rated show. PETA is asking concerned citizens to write to CBS and Survivor's sponsors to express their disapproval. A special note to PETA: you might want to look past all the TV and celebrity issues you're so concerned with. In case you haven't noticed, there's a lot more than one pig being slaughtered in Europe.
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