No More Pies!

Self-hating humans chuck bean curd at skeleton-woman
From SFGate:
Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour was attacked with a tofu pie this weekend when anti-fur demonstrators turned on her at Paris' fashion week.

Dan Matthews, vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the attack was instigated by the magazine's decision to run advertisements for fur-based clothing -- despite their offer of matching the fee in return for PETA anti-fur advertisements.

Throwing pies is stupid. Yes it's funny, but as political statements go, it sucks. Nobody is going to give up fur because you threw a pie. On the other hand, it's not the same as punching somebody in the face. It got you in the papers for a few days, but nobody is impressed. If you had the money to advertise in Vogue and they said no, well take your money elsewhere, I'm sure some other national magazines will take your ads... but after seing the handbills your people pass out in crowds downtown, I think the problem may be in presentation.

Throwing Tofu pies is extra stupid. Are you worried about offending a cow?

But all that is beside the point!
(yes I have a point, it may be a litte dull, but it'll do)

At some level, we civilized folk try to ignore the fact that we live on earth, where every living thing eats other living things in a never-ending cycle of "now I eat you, now you eat me." This has been the state of affairs here forever, and no vegans or Jains or other nutballs are going to change the fact.

It is this simple fact, this horrific fact of life, that so many of us refuse to look at, and lacking any symbols to guide us, having discarded the myths of our ancestors as superstition, and found nothing new to take their place, some people become self-destructive when they finally force themselves to look, and denying life itself, they refuse to participate in the horror.

So they throw tofu pies.