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Cow Shit Hits The Fan In Israel
By BG / January 2, 2007
To maintain ongoing peace with their neighbors, Israel is insisting on "deodorizing" a cow quarantine facility located on the border with Jordan.
Jordanian King Abdullah II has complained of bovine odors coming from the Israeli side of the frontier along the countries' shared southern border, Israel's environment minister said Monday.Speaking to Israel Radio, Gideon Ezra said the smells, from a livestock quarantine facility, were blown across the frontier toward the king's palace in the town of Aqaba, on the Red Sea next to the Israeli town of Eilat. Jordanian officials contacted Israel last week and requested the odors be neutralized, Ezra said.
Jordan and Israel, enemies for decades, signed a peace agreement in 1994 and now enjoy close ties.
In response to the Jordanian complaint, Israel has ordered the owners of the facility _ where imported livestock is held in quarantine before being released to farmers _ to clean up large amounts of animal waste that had built up at the site, Environment Ministry spokesman Sharon Achdut said.
In other bovine news, Israel just released a new electronic product that once ingested by cows, helps locate them and monitor their health status. Hopefully this device will keep cows healthier and create less of a need for them to be housed in quarantine facilities that border with potentially volatile nations.
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of course I meant something man made – shiny, flamable with some sequins and fringes. Or even better some cheerleading outfits accompanied by some anti-meat cheers! Joey you could do some basic 'moves' couldn't you? I am not trying to stop you just help you communicate your message in a more effective way.  Â
As much as I'd like the respect of the SLOBBERING CARNIVORE community, I'm afraid dancing is out of the question. However, I do love flashy outfits, assuming of course that by "flashy" you mean "made with only man-made material, rather than stripped from a carcass on the floor of an abattoir, an abattoir which hawks raw bloody skin to tanneries in order to make the flesh industry just a tad more lucrative."
You can't stop me, Hadar. Anything you say or do will only further feed my sense of smug, self-righteous indignation. Know when you're beaten, hon.
need to put the preaching to music and dance. maybe put on some flashy outfits and then you will get the respect and attention you need – people will start to listen….
say it again, brother!
Yes, hmm, Elisa, tricky, very hard to say. How does one deal with the problems presented by packing so many helpless creatures into tiny adjacent stalls that they create a mountain of shit so impossibly vast and putrid that it causes an international incident? A horrible mountain of shit from higher mammals with a neuroanatomy and neurophysiology so similar to humans that their pain response (rapid breathing, dilated pupils, contortion of facial muscles, attempt to flee source of pain, increased activity in brain region diencephalon) is essentially identical to ours, and who are doubtless far, far more damaged by the noxious fumes of the Shit Mountain on which they live than are the Jordanians who smell it from miles away.
I don't know, jeez, no obvious answer presents itself. I mean, some might suggest that Israelis stop glutting themselves on the muscle and gristle of highly evolved animals whose torture is justified only by that inexplicably persuasive argument "I do it because I enjoy it, and because no one will stop me–and because everyone else is doing it, so it must not be a moral issue at all." Yes, some might suggest this as a solution, but that's so obvious and so plain and so ludicrously unmissable that surely it doesn't need to be stated at all. I can only guess that they tried that and rejected it for very shrewd and sensible reasons unimaginable to me. So I'm at a loss. I guess they should just hire lots and lots of illegal Polish laborers to slowly shovel away at Shit Mountain.
To the Syrian border…
back me up!
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