A rant about rants.....

well its happened, a subject that has agitated me enough to write a quite probably ill-advised and strong willed rant about,has reared its vermin head...
I'm a celebratory get me out of here,whether you're like me and wouldn't wipe your arse on the laughably unfamiliar cast list,or are sadly lacking enough social skills or sensibility to avoid it,some of you MUST have had the plain amusement to read the related news article that i did today,concerning a rather grey and whiskery moral issue.(please see link)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8398734.stm
Now whether you re a carnivore,vegevore,omnivore or ignno-vore,there is usually always a good argument to be started with regards to the treatment,devouring or even in some cases wooing of animals and in most cases,having been a vegetarian animal cuddling hypocrite for a good 16 years of my life(until recently)i would be inclined to writhe back in horror,open the righteousness floodgates and pummel any perpetrator of animal cruelty with the strength of a tofu based rant hurricane.This however has (excuse the deliberate and badly thought pun) BATTED MY RAT
it may prove useful to those who don't know me well to explain my military vegetarian past first.
I grew up on a small,sort-of,farm in north Yorkshire,playing idly in the fields with the goats,spending hazy summers and crisp winters outside in my strange childhood imaginary paddy fields and river based,porcelain rewarded treasure hunts,with little t no company other than whatever family or friends i had invented out of dolls or sticks or shadows, the welcome break i gained from the warm squawk of one of the geese or a gentle,no doubt worm infested lick from one of the many mentally unstable rescue dogs my mum insisted on hauling in was about the strongest,most comforting interaction i had, so naturally my bond with animals was strong.I had unfortunately had to watch several of my goats tragically, and characteristically stupidly hang themselves from hay sacks and jump off bridges,and had received the news with the classic childhood naivety that death wasn't a real thing,that it was a sort of ethereal fable,told to frighten or warn us into avoiding all the dangers we naturally sought out.I think my mind changed direction because of two events in my childhood, firstly the death of my brother,bringing home the reality and the devastation and the loss and secondly,perhaps slightly more anecdotaly amusing was the presentation of my pet goat,to me,on a bed of mash and gravy.
"what is this?" i asked genuinely perplexed
"its Cassie" i was informed
"the goat?,but i don't understand"
"she was killed and used for her meat,that's why we called her Cassie, short for casserole."
"where did she get meat from?"
"she IS meat,goat meat,just like chickens give us chicken and pigs make bacon sarnies..."
"WHAT????,CHICKEN NUGGETS ARE MADE OUT OF HENRIETTA???,BUT I LIKED HENRIETTA????"
"chicken is made from chickens but Henrietta is here to give us eggs, look she still out in the yard..."
But no amount of pleading could be done, i,as a 7 year old child had made up my mind, there was no way i was having Sydney for Christmas dinner.....
Growing up as a vegetarian was incredibly difficult,regimented meat throwing was a standard part of school dinners and the general consensus with regards to a substitute for me to eat at restaurants,friends houses and incredibly allot of the time in my own home was "I'll rustle you up an omelet"...but nothing in my mind could reason that eating meat wasn't anything but wrong,and so with that pinned to my forehead like 'kick me' sticker i trudged through to a time where vegetarianism was not only more acceptable,but perhaps even fashionable.The past couple of years has been a moral tangle for me in general,I've done things,that although I'm not proud of i never thought i would do, and in doing so have gained more of an understanding towards the doings of others and the plethora of moral standpoints this world has to throw into an enormous,already bubbling pot of debate. naturally with all my conflicting opinions i have been lead to believe that most people are billowing,bloated,self-assured hypocrites,seeping disdain and ignorance and what they believe to be moral superiority, the third Reich of recycling,the pol pots of non-organic produce and the steaming,freshly squeezed shit heaps of preposterousness.with this newly gained and typically cynical burden of unconscientiousness i started to question why i was a veggie at all..and with this in mind a well placed fry-up started the ball of carnivora well and truly rolling.
i think you may well be aware that with this,quite possibly over told story in mind that my opinions are generally on this subject well-thought educated and with experience of both opinions,so now with that in mind can somebody please tell me what THE FUCKING HELL THESE ALL SINGING ALL CUSTARD PIEING, FUCKING CLOWNS ARE ON ABOUT TAKING TWO PEOPLE TO COUR FOR KILLING A FUCKING RAT!!!!!!??????
what next,life sentences for butchers? anyone caught with a mousetrap,custodial sentence,man 26 from Winchester 6 monthes suspended community service for swatting a fly?????
just about the only people left unincarcerated would be fucking Tibetan Buddhists and even then I'm sure there will be few left of them if the power happy Chinese carry on....speaking of which,how with problems such as the ones in Tibet still prominent, how on sweet bearded jesus' glorious earth can ANYONE have the gaul to concentrate their venom on the ill-treatment of one single jungle rodent, in fact with that view, why the fuck does anyone care about a group of out of work children's presenters,local reality stars and general nothing to say of the world,15 minutes of mundane,attention junkies???doesn't this just about some up the hypocrisy Ive been able to see for a while now,millions of little people with millions of little fucking opinions,bombarding millions of other people with their little minds and little viewpoints and little boring pointless protests and little tiny weeny phalluses roaming around telling everybody else, that they re re bad people because they don't recycle or eat cheap meat or make any decisions of their own.cheating on their partners and not really paying an interest to the suffering of those close to them and drinking and taking substances that ruin their own precious sanctity of life,but resting assured that because they put the green bins out and made a lentil bake that they solely have the right to distinguish others faults and imply heavily about how said wastrel might make a better human of themselves.Ive even started to loath myself for having an opinion on other people having opinions and because of that i choose now to end my word prolapse.please feel free to form your own opinions.