PowerCycle

Here’s my rant for the day. This is in regards to a proposed ban on all pet sales in San Francisco.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-goldfish-20110627,0,6881137.story

I love the comments at the bottom of this article…

“It takes a while but they eventually warm up and become fantastic friends!”
“You must never have loved a dog or cat as a family member.”
“This is what happens when you have socialists running your government. Pretty soon they will be telling you how many children you can have.”

Everyone is all up in arms about their rights being taken away but no one seems to give a crap that keeping living things as pets to fulfill our own selfish desires just promotes the idea that every other living thing on this planet is here solely for our benefit; to be used and abused as we see fit.

The city shouldn’t have to impose a ban and it’s pretty sad that people have to be told/forced to do the right thing. The pet food industry is contributing in a profound way to the destruction of the rain forests. Habitat destruction is currently ranked as the primary cause of species extinction worldwide. The loss of carbon absorbing trees accelerates global warming. These are facts and it isn’t old news. That’s the other problem–people rarely consider what impact their lifestyle has on anyone or anything else.

Recognizing that the pet trade is never going to go away (human nature and all that), I am thankful for my friends that devote time/energy to promoting pet adoption from shelters and doing what they can to make things better for the pets already out there.