There was an old woman who swallowed a fly….
In France a man using an electric fly swat has managed to blow up half of his house.
I just had to start with that. I have been thinking about environmental and vegan issues today. There was the guy that went to court to prove being vegan was a religion – he refused to drive in case he killed a fly.
It is interesting thinking about food chains. There are few food chains that don’t result in killing creatures of some sort. You might claim you only eat grains, but ploughing the soil will kill critters – a lot of them.
No, this world is a vicious place. If you have a house infested with cockroaches would you just try to carry them outside?
I remember on the bike trip across the USA we stayed at one church building in Arkansas. We were loading the bags on the truck in the morning with both doors to the hall open. Suddenly this guy, looking and dressed just like John Goodman from Arachnophobia walks through the doors. He rattles off a line of things he kills in a sort of poetic way.
When I got him to talk he explained he was there to spray for spiders – he expected there to be maybe 20 deadly ones in the roof space.
So would you have them killed? If you had a new born living in your house would you insist on all deadly spiders being dealt with – and if the only way you could do that was spraying them and killing them, would you?
Are pure environmental vegan lifestyles a fiction, or maybe exclusive to the global elite like us?