On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Michael Perelman<[email protected]> wrote: > I thoroughly enjoyed Joanna's note. We could also add the numerous rich > people who leave fortunes to their animal. Should we include the idea that > PETA gets more support than any organization to support the homeless. > Maybe homeless shelters should act more like animal shelters and find > people a good home.
I am with Michael and Eugene: thank you Joanna very much for this note. On this subject, has anyone on PEN-L read the book Eternal Treblinka that relates the Holocaust to the industrial slaughter of animals (and the related, earlier book The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery")? http://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Treblinka-Treatment-Animals-Holocaust/dp/1930051999/ The howls of protest from the ADL and other groups about this book is very instructive considering that the author already goes to great lengths to clarify that he is not comparing the suffering of Holocaust victims to animals but instead the perpetrators i.e. Nazis to slaughterers. http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/holocaust_imagery_ar.asp -raghu. -- The meek shall inherit the earth, if that's OK with you. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
