Reply To: PETA

Here’s a personal story – last night, my neighbor had an opossum in his yard. One of the kids did something that shocked me. As we were watching the opossum in the garbage can (that’s where it was stuck), one of the neighbor’s kids came over to us. He says, “I called 311 and they said they’re sending someone over soon.” Okay, good enough. But then he did a most disgusting act – he took a second garbage can and placed it inside the first, essentially crushing the poor creature. Is this how our kids are brought up? (The boy in question was a Chassidishe Jew.) Total apathy for another creature.

To make a long story short, a friend of ours, who believes in animal rights (but doesn’t throw things on people who eat meat and wear fur), came to the rescue. But she requuired that all the kids back off (because they were noisy as heck) so that the opossum shouldn’t freak out. Not one kid moved. Even after she got the opossum out, kids were making jokes like “Let’s give it a cat to keep it company” and ridiculous nonsense. When our friend asked the kids if they heard the babies crying, one boy piped up “Yeah, I hear them.” Of course he didn’t.

Sick.