Post of a Post

http://anorderlyuniverse.blogspot.com/2011/01/small-creatures-that-scurry-around-and.html

Lilabet's blog continues to surprise me, and so I love it. She has a clear, well-defined writing style that is both ridiculously humorous, plainly outlines her point of view, and occasionally uses more sophisticated vocabulary to more clearly make her points. However, she also writes just like an average person, not like an incredibly sophisticated individual. In this post, she wrote about a book that I have read as well, "The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear". The author, Walter Moers, is German and has had to have had his works translated into English. He also illustrates all of his books personally. This book is centered around a Bluebear named Bluebear, and gives an account of his adventures within the first half of his life, which is 13.5 lives. In it he meets a strange professor, who often performs experiments on Leyden Manikins, which are small, fictitious, almost doll-like organisms which are used for all sorts of different uses within science. In her post, Lilabet discussed how the Manikins represent animals, and namely how we abuse animals as the professor did the Leyden Manikins. I agree with Lilabet on her opinion that as these Manikins are said to not have feelings or thoughts of any sort, they still seem to display some sort of emotion and  free will and are symbolic to animals in the fact that both have been subjected to some pretty gruesome treatment. Nowadays animal cruelty and poor animal treatment is lessening, but still remains problematic. Like the Manikins, they are both abused, killed, and tested on. People seem to think they're doing wonderful things such as going vegan when they are also buying processed ground beef for their family. That cow may have been horribly tortured and caged in it's lifetime and then slaughtered unmercifully. I mean, I'm not saying eating meat is a terrible, horrible, disgusting, unforgivable crime. I'm not saying going vegan is stupid either. I'm just using this as an example.


Goodnight, dear reader.