The Grumpy Vegan continues to be amazed by our ingenuity in the ways in which we use, exploit and degrade animals.
Today’s Guardian reports on the Royal National Lifeboat Institute’s annual fundraiser “conger cuddling.” Apparently, for more than three decades the RNLI held this annual fundraiser in Lyme Regis, Dorset. It involves people standing on six-inch-high wooden blocks while another team swing a 5-feet-long dead conger eel attached to a piece of rope. Did anyone say human skittles?
Anyway, this nonsense has been stopped because an animal rights activist complained to the RNLI. A rubber mooring buoy will now be used instead.
Of course, there’s been much huffing and puffing. Much what-is-the-world-coming-too? And “Damn those animal rights activists”!
The RNLI does a wonderful job rescuing people off Britain’s shoreline. But, really, it’s time for this pathetic human behavior to stop.
