I’m beginning to think I should join P.E.T.A. I’m seeing all these
animal suffering headlines, and it seems they’re the ONLY headlines about suffering that extract pity from my soul.

I mean, in Australia, Koala’s Eucalyptus leaves (the stuff they eat) are now toxic to them, because of, too much carbon dioxide.

Griiimy.

Of course, when I read it, my heart ran a multi-thousand mile marathon to those poor Koalas who have to put up with such injustice.

Compare that to the extreme urge to laugh that came with reading a headline about a woman who got life in prison for setting a friend on fire, an I’d say I have more feelings for animals than humans. Not that it’s a bad thing. It isn’t as if humans have earned much sympathy over the years.

Either way, these headlines are prime examples of how crazy the world is becoming, and how crazy it has become. Soon, we’re gonna have Koalas that thrive off of the toxic crap in Eucalyptus leaves, and spew it like a dragon does fire, to kill and eat cattle. That’s CRAZY! Soon, the downward – or upward, depending on how you view it – spiral will become so great, that a Koala will end up setting a friend on fire with its amazing toxic ability. Which, of course, will put that race exactly where we humans are right now –- in the shit.

No, but seriously, we’re asking for it. That there is proof that
we’re attacking the food chain at the roots, which is unfortunately
the most effective way to destroy it. That, my friend, is exactly what we DON’T want. Sure, I don’t love humans, but if saving them saves me, then I’m all for it. And if destroying them means destroying me, then I am flat out against it.

So I guess what I’m saying is that I’m all for the laugh that
lighting your friend on fire provokes, but when it comes down to it, maybe that time would have been better spent planting a tree, rather than adding to the carbon dioxide load with the smoke that a homie’s flesh produces.
—Silvano Pontoniere