Re: “Enjoy National Cheeseburger Day,” Larry Penner.
First, if you go to the website www.wikipedia.org and type in “cheeseburger,” you will come up with at least three alternatives to the Sternberger legend. Doesn’t the author care enough about his opinion pieces to put all the facts in them?
Second, if you go to the website of People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals, there are videos that document the brutal, horrific treatment of animals at factory farms and slaughterhouses, including pigs, cows, turkeys, and chickens.
PETA also mentions the horrific toll factory farming takes on the environment. One of the author’s opinion pieces that makes its way through the publications year after year mentions Earth Day, in which the author tells us about what a good neighbor he is and his efforts at recycling, refraining from using a gas-powered mower, etc.
Apparently that does not include the consumption of factory farmed meat.
I am not going to try and pretend that my diet is pure and free of meat. But I make an honest effort. I love bacon and sausage but instead choose to eat oatmeal for breakfast. I try to eat fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
It is a free country. The author is free to write his opinion pieces and free to encourage his neighbors to celebrate National Cheeseburger Day. But I would like to encourage my Queens and Long Island neighbors reading this to go to www.peta.org.
Look at the videos. Read PETA’s positions. PETA was instrumental in the banning of foie gras, a food produced by brutally shoving a tube down the throat of a duck or goose until its liver swells. Try to eat a diet of live foods from the Earth rather than dead, preservative-filled meat.
Nat Weiner
Bronx
