PETA

Bonjour!! My second appearance of the month. I deserve an applause for this right? For spending time here when I'm suppose to revise for my Chem test this Wed. Well, I feel so disturbed by the videos that I watched last night. I can't get it out of my mind! Super frustrating, that is. It was a video from a local celebrity of her pet. I would not consider it as an ordinary pet (by means dogs, cats, fish, rabbits etc.) Is monkey a normal, ordinary pet in your means of dictionary? It's definitely not for me. I don't know what species it is, nor I bother to find out. Let me just show you guys what I meant by disturbing.

These are disturbing!

 

I'm sorry if you guys feel disturbed by it too. The most haunting picture would be the one where she squeezed the monkey's face. Clearly, I know she's not hurting the monkey but it feels like she torturing a baby. Monkeys or to specific chimpanzees have 99% identical DNA to humans. Well since apes, orang utans, gorillas and maybe monkeys are all in the family of Hominoidea, I guess in some way, there are still have some similar DNA in their genes or at least some characteristics.

 

My conscience is telling me that this is not right in every way. I've noticed that it's becoming like a couple thing these days to adopt a pet together with your couple. It's like trying to experience how marriage days are like with your couples. What can be a better 'child' than monkey? If you want a child, then go make one! Don't experience it with monkeys! And the video of her punishing the monkey for disobeying her by letting it feels scared, I just can't!!! How would you feel if it's the other way round. The monkey have a human child as pet. Toying around and laughing at it. Oh Mai God!! I can't continue this. Think for yourself. Not every animals are for pets. Monkeys are DEFINITELY not one!

 

Frankly speaking, it did cross my mind sometime of having a pet monkey, especially when pet shops are selling super tamed monkeys for RM 500. And the babies are just so cute and cuddly. But after the consideration of how similar our species is to them, I don't think it's a good idea. From my opinion, a monkey is very different from a dog. I just can't explain how different they are from my opinions in words. And also, I'm scared of monkeys and their families for life after the Planet of the Apes! I'm okay with people having chinchilla, civets or sugar gliders for pets but just not monkeys!

 

Civets or locally known as musang, are becoming a common pets here in Malaysia

And no, it never occur in my mind to have one due to their ferocious behavior.

 

I assume this is how the people of PETA see us when we took selfies with our chicken rice, steak, hamburgers and the list goes on. This bring us to another topic that I wanna pin out for a long time already but just don't have the time. I followed PETA on FB. I consider myself as a half supporter of their works because I don't totally 100% agree with them. On puppy mills, skinning wolves and circus, YES, I agree. But on killing chickens for food, not so. Those horrifying images of pigs in their dirty pens. Let me tell you. A friend of mine went to a pig farm early this year, here in Malaysia. It shocked me to see the pictures she posted on Instagram. Not what you guess it is. I'm shocked to see how huge a mother pig is! On the contrary of what PETA portrayed in their videos, the pigs' pens are very clean and tidy. No muds or bloods sputter around.

 

Since PETA encourages people to go vegan (which I'm totally hopeless in) I hope and really like to believe that everyone in PETA is really vegan. Not for the sake of religion but for what they believes in. But then before they go vegan, there must be sometime in their life that they've tasted meat, right? *wink wink Instead of campaigning for people to go vegan, why not campaigning for all the zoos, sea world, animals farms to shut down? Coz basically they're all 'torturing' animal by keeping them in an enclosure?

 

Think about it!