Le cadeau idéal pour Noël: Un porcelet mort....

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4,000$ pour une tirelire en porcelet mort

Très bon article du journaliste Peter Fricker


Friday November 5, 2010 The perfect gift: a dead piglet
By Peter Fricker

The current issue of Vancouver Magazine is carrying an advertisement for a piggy bank in its Holiday Gift Guide 2010. What makes this piggy bank different is that it is an actual, dead pig.

The taxidermied piglet, priced at $4000, is promoted with other products under the heading “Win friends and influence people this holiday season with our annual essential guide to giving the Perfect Gift.”

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Yet this is something worse than mere crass commercialization. It is the trivializing of life (and death) that is so offensive. Yes, it was just an animal’s life, but even meat-eaters or hog farmers would acknowledge that a pig’s life is worth something and that it has been sacrificed for human benefit. The death is not trivial. It is not just a joke, as the promoters of the taxidermied piggy bank would have it.

Pigs and other farm animals have been turned into commodities on factory farms across the world. They are being selectively bred, genetically altered and cloned into “better” products. They are denied anything resembling a natural life, kept in cruel conditions and slaughtered in their billions. All for our pleasure.

Perhaps the editors of Vancouver Magazine might have considered this before running an ad that strips away the last shred of dignity from one small, sentient being whose innocence has been lost in the relentless commercialization of life.




http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/communityofinterest/archive/2010/11/04/the-perfect-gift-a-dead-piglet.aspx

http://www.vanmag.com/Shopping/Holiday_Gift_Guide_2010

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Cette histoire a son bon côté aussi: l'image graphique qui nous est présenté montre la réalité de ce "produit", et ça peut faire féflichir les gens. Il va y avoir du monde qui pensent que c'est bien "chic", mais d'autres vont réagir à cette atrocité.

Il y a beaucoup de monde qui ont des fauteils et des divans rembourés et couverts de cuir dans leur salons. . . et ces meubles passent inapérçus, il ne dérangent pas personne. . .

En réalité, au point de vu de la souffrance, il n'y a pas beaucoup de différence entre ces tirelires porcelets et un divan couvert de cuir. En effet, le petit porcelet a probablement souffert moins que la pauvre vache qui s'est fait arracher sa peau pour meubler des salons.

Mais si quelqu'un est capable de faire la connexion entre les deux, ce serait peut-être "un mal pour un bien" . . .