The World is an Ark

I saw this article about a boat found off the coast of China with 5,000 endangered animals trapped and dying of dehydration.

Endangered, hunted, smuggled and now abandoned, 5,000 of the world's rarest animals have been found drifting in a deserted boat near the coast of China.

I am sure (I hope) that people are outraged to read this. I hope that people feel some sense of "What are we doing?". Now, I know that the people who read this blog have never eaten, nor intend to eat pangolin, but when I think about it, I realize that there is no difference between that, and eating an egg from a chicken that endured far worse than a few days of dehydration, or pork from a pig that had his tail cut to make it "extra sensitive" so it will react quicker when the other pigs bite it out of the frustration that comes from being kept in such small, crowded pens for their entire life.

Would people, myself included, feel so repulsed to find that the cheese they were enjoying was a result of our keeping cows pregnant and pumped full of hormones iher entire life, and stealing her child once it is born? I can only wish that one day we will.

For now, I still eat an egg if someone puts it in front of me. Although I would not buy it on my own, I am weak, and unwilling to take a stand. Not wanting to hurt the feelings of my host, I relent and eat the egg they have prepared for me...

I gotta work on that.

I have no photos to post today, so the illustrations above and below are from Eiko Nagata, an illustrator I really like. We have one book she did the illustration for, and I have seen her work in magazines and the book store as well. Today Tomoe brought home yet another book sporting some of her illustrations, prompting me to look her up on the web. It seems she does it all with Photoshop. Just another excuse for me to stop posting anything I do with photoshop because I am paralyzed with fears of inadequacy.