It’s safe to say that Jean Claude Van Damme is not a fan of wearing fur.The Belgian action star has teamed up with Belgian animal rights group GAIA (Global Action In The Interest Of Animals) to create a poster campaign titled The Victims. And it’s an eye catcher…
[QUOTE=Sri Hanuman;2612078]Interesting. Gotta admit I regained a whole bunch of respect for the man after watching JCVD. Takes balls to spoof yourself.
Now if this was a Steven Segal article, this post would be followed by a shopped image of Segal eating a panda.[/QUOTE]
He was actually breaking up a badger-baiting ring when the panda happened to get in the way, by mistake. These things happen in police work.
[QUOTE=Larus marinus;2612094]He was actually breaking up a badger-baiting ring when the panda happened to get in the way, by mistake. These things happen in police work.[/QUOTE]
But how do you explain the wok and at least 10 bottles of oyster and fish sauce?
[QUOTE=Sri Hanuman;2612098]But how do you explain the wok and at least 10 bottles of oyster and fish sauce?[/QUOTE]
You got to be prepared for everything when doing police work.
[QUOTE=Sri Hanuman;2612078]Interesting. Gotta admit I regained a whole bunch of respect for the man after watching JCVD. Takes balls to spoof yourself. [/QUOTE]
Same, best acting work yet. JCVD was really able to convey the character of… JCVD.
[QUOTE=Gezere;2612103]PS I HATE animal lovers.[/QUOTE]
Not an animal lover in the sense that I’m more carnivore then herbivore and I like leather clothing, but cows are used for food and clothing.
Well an animal lover as it goes to killing animals for just one attribute, especially as it’s just for a fashion/status cause, and letting the rest of the animal go to waist. Unfortunally a lot of mammals used in the fur industry are carnivores, so it’s not a healthy idea to make ragout out of the rest of the animal.
We live a life of consumption which is fueled by death and destruction. For every day that we live how many creatures, plants and organisims much die to support us. Nobody in a first world country leaves a small footprint. The eco guilt and the accompanying self flagulation whereby some people seek redemption is interesting.
We protest the use of an animal for fur but will wear leather shoes and ingest medicine derived from animal sources. This while DRIVING to an anti oil protest while wearing oil byproducts but only after first hitting the drive thru for a bite to eat. Then you have to watch the protest on the news (electricity where’s that come from?) But hey I threw my PLASTIC bottle (where’s that come from?) In the recycle bin while reading a BOOK (paper?) on global warming so thus I have made my peace with mother nature.
[QUOTE=dflanmod;2612410]We live a life of consumption which is fueled by death and destruction. For every day that we live how many creatures, plants and organisims much die to support us. Nobody in a first world country leaves a small footprint. The eco guilt and the accompanying self flagulation whereby some people seek redemption is interesting.
We protest the use of an animal for fur but will wear leather shoes and ingest medicine derived from animal sources. This while DRIVING to an anti oil protest while wearing oil byproducts but only after first hitting the drive thru for a bite to eat. Then you have to watch the protest on the news (electricity where’s that come from?) But hey I threw my PLASTIC bottle (where’s that come from?) In the recycle bin while reading a BOOK (paper?) on global warming so thus I have made my peace with mother nature.[/QUOTE]
Nice stereotypes…now STFU.
I wear leather shoes and jackets. The animals used for them are the same animals from which the meat is used as food.
I wouldn’t give a second thought if people would wear fur coats made out of rabbits, because it’s good meat and so nothing of the animal gets waisted and feeding herbivore creates is less of an ecological footprint than feeding carnivore creatures.
Unfortunally most animals used in the fur industry are carnivores and thus leave a higher eco footprint to raise, because they have to be fed meat of herbivore creatures AND meat of a pure carnivore isn’t the healthiest to eat, so it gets discarded.
This has got nothing to do with an ecological standpoint, but it has to do with waisting a good animal for just an antisocial luxury product.
So leave the oil, plastic, electricity and paper out of it for this moment. That’s a complete other discussion.
PS:
my company car is a VW Polo with an eco label, while normally I have the company budget for a VW Passat Break, but I’m alone so I don’t need a big car for 1 person
since 6 december it has only 7800 km on the counter (walking and public transport)
99.9% of my books are pdf’s
The building where I live has sunpanels, which provide for 60% of the electricity used in that building.
Don’t own a TV, I watch movies and series from time to time on my iMac. Selective viewing gives me a lot more time to train and it saves on the costs (making and owning) of two devices.
While my eco footprint is still big, I can make it quit smaller without turning into a g_ddamned hippie.
The world has colours, not black or white (or in this case absolute hippie vs absolute polutor).
I am glad that you have come to terms with your personal eco guilt. The nice thing about eco religion is that there is ultimately no higher power to answer to and thus we can all make up our own penance to attone for the destrucion we have wreaked upon the planet.
PS. I leave oil plastic and such lumped in because of the whole birds of a feather thing…
You know; to a vegan you are the devil incarnate. I merely point out that when it comes to these topics the morality is completely self imposed/created.
