Horse-love
without the sex

[Re: Letters, July 26] Most people are not in favour of promoting bestiality, but the fact remains that people who get it on with goats, sheep, horses, lambs etc. have existed since the dawn of time.

The documentary Zoo [“Horse and Buggery,” July 19] throws light on a forbidden topic and it does not deserve to be criticized for that. Some people would even say it is better that people make love to animals than kill them. It is an extension of the “make love, not war” motto.

Horses are beautiful, and most people admire them, in a nonsexual way, anyways. Bestiality can surely be disturbing, but what is even more disturbing is that so many horses are still slaughtered in North America. In Quebec, horse meat can readily be found in Super Carnavale and a few other supermarket chains. Seven per cent of Quebecers admit to eating horse meat. Hundreds of horses are slaughtered in Canada and the U.S. every month, and their meat shipped off to Europe, Japan and China for human consumption. A number of winning horses from the Kentucky Derby have also been shipped off to Japan and Europe and then slaughtered for food.

I hope there is a documentary made to advocate a wholesale ban on the slaughter, sale and consumption of horses. Hippophagy is cruel and totally unnecessary in a world where other meats are plentiful.

>> Manish Patwari

Watch what
you breathe!

[Re: “We are what we eat,” Riff-Raff, July 26] Breatharian? Well, if that isn’t the most retarded thing I’ve ever heard, no offence to the intellectually challenged, or whatever the newest politically correct term is. As far as air goes, we’re not even safe from that. Airborne bacteria viruses and smog?

Even still, people today are living longer than ever before and, being a vegan, I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been. Ever hear of washing vegetables? That usually takes care of most residual toxins. And as for the African kids with the big bellies, it’s a distended stomach. We have all of these organs inside our chest cavity which gravity pushes downward, but we have abdominal muscles to hold them back. When these muscles grow weak from lack of use/food, gravity wins.

Anyways, sorry for the lack of organization in this e-mail but I hafta say, you have the best column in the Mirror. Keep up the great work.

>> Luke

More Mid-East
mayhem!

[Re: Letters, July 26] It can only be a sign of desperation that the best Ari Schechter and Ron Heller can do to defend Israel is to offer racist rants against the “caravan-robber” founder of Islam, coupled with worn-out charges against Hamas. They do not bother to mention that Hamas has repeatedly offered a ceasefire, which Israel has rejected. They do not admit that the entire Arab world has offered peace to Israel if it only respected UN resolutions and withdrew from the territories it has occupied since 1967.

They do not deny that Palestinians are suffering a brutal 40-year occupation, or that Israel razed 400 Palestinian villages to the ground, or that thousands of Palestinian prisoners are tortured and held without charge in Israeli jails, or that 10 times more Palestinian children have been killed than Israeli ones.

All they can do to defend the state they worship is accuse critics of “anti-Semitism” while regurgitating Zionist propaganda that says it’s all the Arabs’ fault. Such predictable tactics are by now as discredited as they are transparent. Quite simply, they fool no one.

>> Patrice Bombardier

[Re: Letters, July 19] Now let’s see...“Do Muslims run Mirror?”

1. The Mirror uses the headline “Fascist extremes” above rebuttals to my recent post, slyly implying that the only democracy in the Mid-East, Israel, is rife with fascist extremists.

2. Carl Aboud speaks of hate-mongering Zionists. Judging from his comments, he probably thinks Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s call for the utter destruction and annihilation of the state of Israel is also a Zionist plot.

3. John Dirlik throws out words like “ethnic cleansing,” clearly showing one and all he really doesn’t know the first meaning of the term.

Here are a few more facts for those who haven’t as yet been brainwashed by mainstream media reporting. See: http://www.palestinefacts.org/

>> Ken Weinstein

Correction

Last week’s Front article “Cancer vs. the King” incorrectly mentioned that Schmelvis would be performing at a fundraiser, due to erroneous information provided to the Mirror.